Hardired Nectarine

Didn't see this in descriptions but the Hardired, while it's grown quite large in 5 years (Olympia area) and has borne some fruit (29 this year, far fewer previously), is HIGHLY susceptible to peach leaf curl. Man! I've tried and tried to treat with copper/etc. sprays during the dormant season and early spring after each rain and it refused to grow past the disease. So, I keep pulling the bad leaves off during the growing season, treating with an organic (peppermint based) spray, and prune diseased twigs judiciously. So, while it has finally had a good production year (2023), the battle to keep it alive from BAD peach leaf curl is still ongoing!!!

My two favorite Nectarine trees (Hardired) started to leaf out beautifully and I thought this will be wonderful! Then two months later, with the rains in the Maritime Pacfic Northwest, the trees started turning brown and lost all of their leaves. Yesterday I wanted to test its viability and the branch snapped off. I am a skilled, Master gardener growing 76 fruit trees starting from babies....many of them bought from here, including Hardired Nectarines, so I know what I am doing. By this time, it is too late to get a refund, or another order of my favorite nectarine, so I feel very sad. Sadly, I will try another company this next season.

Got my 2 nectarine bare roots, soaked them overnight, planted in oversized pots, leafed out well, growing, a couple of branches were damaged in transport, prunes 3 dead branches.