Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Crimson Rocket Peach Bareroot

History: Crimson Rocket originated at the Appalachian Fruit Research Station in West Virginia as part of a breeding program to create columnar peach trees with good fruit quality. It was selected in 1996 for further testing and and patented in 2004.

Why We Grow It: Crimson Rocket is unique for its columnar growth, forming a narrow tree ideal for those with limited planting space! It produces freestone yellow peaches with a red blush with the perfect balance of sweet and tart, making it an excellent variety for fresh eating.

Bare Root Peach Trees:
We are very pleased to be able to offer peach trees to our customers. They are both challenging and rewarding plants to grow. However, due to the unique challenges of growing peach trees, and the increased care required for their success, we regrettably cannot offer our standard 90 day guarantee on peaches. Please inspect your peach trees to your satisfaction when you pick them up at the nursery, or immediately upon arrival if they are shipped. For shipped trees, make your claim within 7 days of receipt of the trees. After 7 days of receipt, you will have been deemed to have accepted the trees in as-is condition.

$68.00

Rootstock:
Size:

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating

Fruit Size: Medium

Storage: Keeps about a week in the fridge

Harvest: August - Mid

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 5

Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam - nothing very heavy, ideally with good fertility. Prefers average to moist conditions with well-drained soils, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Peaches are extra sensitive to 'wet feet', or soils with poor drainage.

Flowering Time: Unknown

Bloom Colour: Pink

Pollination Requirements: Self-pollinating, this variety will produce fruit without a peach tree of a different variety but will produce more and better fruit if one is present

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Columnar growth habit, produces reliable crops

Overall Disease Resistance Rating*: Unknown

*this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

Our grafted fruit trees are graded into two categories, and the size includes the rootstock:

  • 50-80cm grade: Smaller trees that may have some minor branching, this grade is like a "b-grade" size tree according to industry standards. This size may include trees that are over 1m but have some scarring or mild crookedness.
  • 1m+ grade: Trees that are over 1m tall, some may have no branches and others may have light feathering or a few established branches 

Please keep in mind, bareroot trees appear small if you are unfamiliar with them. Size can vary year to year due to weather conditions and every single variety has a unique amount of vigour (some varieties naturally are smaller and some bigger, much like humans -and when you propagate hundreds of varieties, there certainly is variation). While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth. Therefore you may find some conventional nursery stock larger in comparison. 


Why plant small? It's best to transplant a tree when it's young so it can establish its roots before it has a lot of vegetative growth. This is much less stressful on it and after a few years bareroot trees tend to catch up and even surpass larger potted trees planted at the same time.

Orders that are cancelled last minute due to size (being "too small"), will still incur the applicable cancellation fees if the trees are true to our grading standards as per the agreement of sale when the order was placed.

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