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Originally Posted by Richard
In Tampa you can grow these great tasting ultra-low-chill pit and pome fruits:
Dorset Golden Apple. 100 chill hours. Self-fruitful.
Desert Delight Nectarine. Yellow Freestone. < 200 chill hours. Self-fruitful.
May Pride Peach. Yellow Freestone. < 200 chill hours. Self-fruitful.
Burgundy Plum. 150-300 chill hours. Purple flesh. Self-fruitful.
Beauty Plum. 200-250 chill hours. Amber flesh. Self-fruitful.
Chill hours are the duration of hours some fruit trees require to produce a significant amount of fruit year after year. The hours listed for a particular fruit are an approximation, usually obtained by trial and error. To compute chill hours in your yard: Between Nov. 1 and Jan. 1, the # of hours below 45 F minus the # of hours above 65 F. Note that this date range only contains a total of 61×24 = 1464 hours. |
Thanks..and they all sound oh so good....but knock on wood..I do not get 100 chill hours a year....based on the subtraction formula....I probably wind up with zero chill hours. Inland Tampa probably gets 100 or more chill hours a year...
If you look at a map of Tampa you will see a small Peninsula...I live on this Peninsula (very close to the water) near "Hillsborough Bay"...."Old Tampa Bay" and "Tampa Bay" are the other two bays that surround the "South Tampa Peninsula"
See the pic below.
Chris
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