The peach comes from China, and got out on the Silk Road to the Persians, who gave it to the Romans, who called it the Persian Apple (which got shortened to Peach, right?), and then in the mid twentieth century some scientists went to China and discovered this …
Siberian C
A wild peach from the Gobi Desert. About the size of a large plum.
Siberian C was used for decades as a cold-hardy peach tree rootstock. Here in British Columbia, it was readily available as seed, but now, in our ultra modern times, it’s not. Now peach rootstocks come in from the south, rich with diseases and fumigated till they’re blue in the face and gasping for life. This is called progress. It’s just dumb. So, when I found a Siberian C that had survived by overpowering its graft, I went picking. Here they are once I shucked them for their seeds …
Rebuilding the Peach Industry One Pit at a Time
Of course, I don’t have a chunk of land for these. Hmmm. Anyone?
And here is the flesh of the fruit (this is the serendipity part)…
Siberian C Peaches Inside Out
White flesh, green skin, red flesh around the pits. The flesh is flavourful, but moooooshy.
So, I juiced them on a whim and a hunch, and, what do you know, this is the greatest peach juice, like, ever. It comes out rich and pink, almost like syrup, with a lovely balance of sugars and acids. To heck with rootstocks. These things can be the real deal, too. An orchard of these beauties could not only rejig the peach industry, but leap into the new food value industry, too. I’m all for that.
Categories: Agriculture, food culture, Innovation
Okanagan Okanogan 
Those are beautiful, and we have room! Can I have a pit? They grow a lot of peaches (much to my surprise) just across the Mississippi in Illinois, so perhaps we could handle one here.
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https://www.summerlandvarieties.com/budwood/catalogue/
they have Siberian C seeds
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May I have a pit as well. I love things that are still “the way they used to be” before all the hybridization and commercialization. I have been searching for a source of Siberian C tissue/seed and a few other very old varieties I hope to preserve. I live in a cold climate so these are possibly the only peaches I would ever be able to grow. I would pay whatever you ask. kmdulitz@gmail.com
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https://www.summerlandvarieties.com/budwood/catalogue/
they have them for commercial distribution.
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Please either sell me some Siberian C Peach seed or please imform me as to where to obtain some. Thank you.
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https://www.summerlandvarieties.com/budwood/catalogue/
they have them
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I came across your blog searching for root stock. Looking for some root stock to graft the scions I’ve saved from very old apple trees on our property here in Peachland. Yup-looking for apple trees in Peachland. Gets better-I’ll be planting them in Cherryville!
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They might have some in Keremeos: http://applerootstocks.com
Or Golden West in Summerland (Al Fisher)… I used to graft for him, and he does import rootstocks.
https://411.ca/business/profile/245480
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Thanks for your speedy reply Harold! Will call them both tomorrow.
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I hope it works!
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There are some growing along Bella Vista Road in Vernon, on the south side, beside the orchard west of Crosby. Bring a shovel. Roots are slight but are there.
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Is there someone on I need to ask permission from before I dig up the wild apple trees?
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Na, they’re sprouting from an old orchard row that was on the allowance, and are outside the fence.
they’re m9
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Hi! Do you have some Siberian C peach seeds to share?
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