‘UFSun’

U.S. Patent PP14,764
Peach Variety


  • Fruit Size: Medium-Large
  • Chill Requirement: 100-150 hours
  • Growth Habit: Semi-Spreading
  • First Harvest: Around April 22 near Gainesville
  • Description: ‘UFSun’ is a non-melting-flesh peach cultivar released in 2004.  ‘UFSun’ trees bear heavy annual crops of early-season, medium-sized fruit, with yellow flesh and clingstone pits.  ‘UFSun’ fruit are uniformly symmetrical and develop 50–60% red skin with darker red stripes.  ‘UFSun’ fruit ripens with that of the standard peach cultivar ‘Flordaprince’ (unpatented) at Immokalee and Gainesville, Florida with an FDP of 80 days.

     

    License Availability:  FFSP has non-exclusively licensed the following entities for the propagation of the ‘UFSun’ peach cultivar:

    A&A Country Orchard
    http://ladylakepeach.com/

    Florida Peach Tree Farm
    2035 Gerber Dairy Road,
    Winter Haven, FL 33880
    Phone: (863) 294-4950

    Freedom Tree Farms, LLC
    http://www.freedomtreefarms.com/

    Hopkins Nursery
    http://hopkinstropicalfruitnursery.com/

    Island Grove, LLC
    Bert Sheffield
    24703 SE 193rd Ave
    Hawthorne, FL 32640
    Phone: (352) 274-3835

    P&P Farms
    31630 Amberlea Road
    Dade City, FL 33523
    Phone: (813) 783-5653

    Phillip Rucks Citrus Nursery, Inc.
    http://www.ruckscitrusnursery.com/

    Propagations Unlimited, Inc.
    6501 Highway 60 E
    Bartow, FL 33830
    Phone: (863) 258-9211

    Rainbow Star Nursery
    2324 Southwest 36th Ter.
    Gainesville, FL 32607
    Phone: 352-378-4681

    Russell Stromsnes
    7789 SW Highway 72
    Arcadia, FL 34266
    Phone: (863) 494-6933

    Southern Citrus Nurseries, LLC
    http://www.southerncitrusnurseries.com/

    Sunny Florida Peach Company, LLC
    P.O. Box 9
    Alturas, FL 33820
    Phone: (863) 537-5121