White Lady Peach
Pollination & Compatibility Guide
White Lady peach pollination guide: self-fertile Group 3 flowers, white-flesh dessert quality and rootstock choices.
White Lady is Self-Fertile (Sets Fruit Alone)
Zaiger Genetics low-acid white freestone. High sugar; self-fertile diploid.
- Ploidy / Pollen
- Diploid · Fertile Pollen
- Required Companions
- 0 (Self-Fertile)
- Bloom Group
- Group 3 (Early-Mid Spring)
- Harvest Timing
- Mid Season
Flowering Period & Overlap Window
Peaches and nectarines are the same species and can share pollen when bloom overlaps. Most cultivars set fruit with their own pollen, so a partner is not normally required. Pollen-sterile exceptions such as J.H. Hale and Indian Free need a fertile peach or nectarine flowering at the same time.
White Lady flowers within the peach Group 2–4 overlap window. Only pollen-sterile cultivars require a separate fertile peach or nectarine donor.
Compatible Pollination Partners (25)
| Cultivar | Bloom Group | Overlap Type | Harvest | Primary Uses | Interactive Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Late | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross | |
Bounty | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Late | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross |
Dixieland | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid-Late | Fresh Eating | Test Cross |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Early-Mid | Fresh Eating | Test Cross | |
Earliglo | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Early | Fresh Eating | Test Cross |
Early Redhaven | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Early | Fresh Eating | Test Cross |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Fresh Eating | Test Cross | |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Canning, Freezing | Test Cross | |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross | |
Harken | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross | |
Polly (White Peach) | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Mid | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Early-Mid | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross | |
| Group 3 | Full Overlap | Early | Fresh Eating | Test Cross | |
Rio Oso Gem | Group 3 | Full Overlap | Very Late | Fresh Eating, Canning | Test Cross |
Incompatible Varieties & Exclusions (2)
These cultivars cannot serve as pollinizers for White Lady because their pollen is sterile, flowering does not overlap, or a documented close relationship excludes the pairing.
Indian Free produces no viable pollen, so it cannot serve as a pollinizer.
J.H. Hale produces no viable pollen, so it cannot serve as a pollinizer.
Grower Commentary: White Lady's Dessert Crop
White Lady is a self-fertile white-fleshed peach with viable pollen. The verified pomology record places its bloom in Group 3, correcting the Group 2 shorthand in the catalog. It does not need an interplanted donor for its own fruit, though it may pollinate a sterile peach if open flowers overlap. Use the corrected group when assessing a J.H. Hale or Indian Free planting.
The cultivar is noted for low-acid, high-sugar dessert fruit, so selective picking and careful handling are part of the block plan. Thin early after a heavy set to leave fruit that can size without overloading shoots. The current structured record does not carry a cultivar-specific chill number. Compare local winter observations and spring flowering behaviour rather than attaching another white peach's published figure to this cultivar.
Retain a supply of one-year fruiting shoots with annual pruning and allow light into the centre for an even picking crop. Select a peach-compatible rootstock for the site's drainage, lime and replant history; a compact stock is only useful if it survives the soil. Myrobalan, Marianna, St Julien and Torinel are not compatible scion partners. Good frost drainage remains essential even for a tree able to set with its own pollen.
Key Orchard Considerations for White Lady
Self-fertile White Lady has viable pollen; use its verified group when pairing it with a sterile peach.
Thin for fruit size and handle the low-acid white-fleshed crop carefully; no structured chill number is available.
Choose peach-compatible roots for drainage and replant conditions rather than plum-family standards.
Take White Lady from Planning to Planting
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