The USDA at Byron, GA has released a trio of “Joy” peach cultivars named \u2018Crimson Joy\u2019 (early mid-season), \u2018Liberty Joy\u2019 (mid-season), and \u2018Rich Joy\u2019 (late season). The three main-season cultivars all have self-fertile showy pink flowers, produce large, firm, melting and freestone fruit with high blush, yellow flesh, normal acidity and pleasant eating quality, and crop well most years at tested locations in the southeast. The cultivars are suited for trials in areas with medium to high chilling accumulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Crimson Joy\u2019 requires ~700 chill hours (CH) and typically ripens approximately with \u2018Harvester\u2019 and \u2018Redhaven\u2019 and about a week after \u2018GaLa\u2019 in mid to late June at Byron. The fruit are redder, more attractive, and firmer than the three cultivars in the similar harvest window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Liberty Joy\u2019 requires ~650 CH and typically ripens in late June to early July at Byron. It could be a reliable lower-chill alternative to \u2018Fireprince\u2019, \u2018Blazeprince\u2019, \u2018Scarletprince\u2019 and \u2018Redglobe\u2019, some current commercial cultivars in the harvest window that all require ~850 CH and do not crop well when chilling accumulation is insufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Rich Joy\u2019 requires ~850 CH and typically ripens about a week after \u2018Julyprince\u2019 and approximately 2 weeks before \u2018Flameprince\u2019 at Byron, which can fill the harvest gap between the two cultivars. At maturity, \u2018Rich Joy\u2019 fruit have high percentage of bright red blush, making it more attractive and preferable to older, less blushed \u2018Cresthaven\u2019 and \u2018Early Augustprince\u2019, which are in the same harvest window. The freestone fruit develop excellent melting texture and pleasant rich flavor, and soften slowly on the tree as they ripen, allowing them to be picked over a relatively longer period compared to other typical melting cultivars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pedigrees of the three cultivars are different, so are their chill requirements, ripening days relative to \u2018Elberta\u2019, and harvesting seasons (Table 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table 1 Chill requirements (hours), ripening days relative to \u2018Elberta\u2019 and harvesting seasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prospective licensees may contact USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer at 5601 Sunnyside Ave, Room 4-1192, Beltsville, MD 20705-5131, USA or via license@usda.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USDA at Byron, GA has released a trio of “Joy” peach cultivars named \u2018Crimson Joy\u2019 (early mid-season), \u2018Liberty Joy\u2019 (mid-season), and \u2018Rich Joy\u2019 (late season). The three main-season cultivars all have self-fertile showy pink flowers, produce large, firm, melting and freestone fruit with high blush, yellow flesh, normal acidity and pleasant eating quality, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,15,16,14],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-byron","tag-cultivars","tag-joy","tag-peach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cultivars<\/strong><\/td> Chill Hours<\/strong><\/td> Ripening Days<\/strong><\/td> Harvesting Seasons<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Springprince<\/td> 650<\/td> -49<\/td> Early<\/td><\/tr> Redhaven<\/td> 950<\/td> -28<\/td> Early mid<\/td><\/tr> Harvester<\/td> 750<\/td> -26<\/td> Early mid<\/td><\/tr> Crimson Joy<\/td> 700<\/td> -25<\/td> Early mid<\/td><\/tr> Blazeprince<\/td> 850<\/td> -16<\/td> Mid<\/td><\/tr> Liberty Joy<\/td> 650<\/td> -15<\/td> Mid<\/td><\/tr> Redglobe<\/td> 950<\/td> -13<\/td> Mid<\/td><\/tr> Julyprince<\/td> 850<\/td> -8<\/td> Mid<\/td><\/tr> Elberta<\/td> 850<\/td> 0<\/td> Mid<\/td><\/tr> Rich Joy<\/td> 850<\/td> 2<\/td> Late<\/td><\/tr> Early Augustprince<\/td> 800<\/td> 3<\/td> Late<\/td><\/tr> Flameprince<\/td> 850<\/td> 14<\/td> Late<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n