Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

White Knight Peach Bareroot

History: White Knight was created at the fruit breeding program in Vineland by University of Guelph professor Jayasankar Subramanian. Subramanian specializes in developing new varieties of peaches, plums, nectarines, and cherries for the Ontario market. 

Why We Grow It: White Knight is a variety of white peach that produces a tangy, sweet, and juicy clingstone fruit with a hint of raspberry flavour and a tender, chewy texture. The skin is a vibrant ruby red overlaying whitish pink, making it a rather lovely peach.

Note on Mature Size: Our White Knight peaches are grafted onto a mystery chum rootstock so we do not know what size they will be once fully mature. It is most likely they will produce a semi-dwarf tree but the tree may end up being full-sized.

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.

$71.00

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, baking

Fruit Size: Medium

Storage: Keeps about a week in the fridge

Harvest: August - Mid

Plant 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.

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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: Hardy. Moderately resistant to canker, brown rot, and bacterial leaf spot.

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 plants 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.

When Will My Order Be Ready?

Most of our bareroot plants and tubers are only available for spring planting! Only bareroot apples and pears are available for fall planting.

Spring orders are generally ready to be picked up or shipped out anywhere from late March to late May! We will be in touch in the spring once your order is ready to go. Orders placed in the spring might not be ready for 1-2 weeks as this is a very busy time of year for us.

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