The Best Hour a Peach Grower Can Spend       This is the official web site for the most exciting peach variety breeding program since the famous Redhaven was introduced. There are now 23 Flamin' Fury®  Peach varieties, 1 Nectarine and 1 Plum currently listed with photos on our "Flamin' Fury® Varieties" page. The 25 cultivars displayed there have been selected as the very best of the 32 varieties of fruit trees that have been patented over time. It is our challenge to continously improve our series by offering only the best of the best. Done correctly, a stone fruit breeding program is a rapid evolutionary process, introducing new and eliminating older varieties based on all most desirable fresh peach, plum or nectarine traits. The Flamin' Fury® peach series now spans a 15 week growing period, we have increased the harvest period over a  month with excellent varieties for all time periods in Michigan, many other states and Canada. This series is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. The series now includes: early freestones, very large freestone varieties throughout the season, extremely winter and spring hardy varieties. Varieties that are very high in brix (% sugar), with excellent flavor, and even the "World's Largest Peach" ever (PF 24-007). Visit our "Flamin' Fury® Varieties" page to view our current best peach list. This series of peaches is trademarked Flamin' Fury® and the individual varieties are named and patented as PF numbers in the approximate order of ripening. They are usually marketed as Flamin' Fury® Peaches, (example) Flamin' Fury® PF Lucky 13, etc. All of the Flamin' Fury® varieties having the designation (007) in their name are extremely large and all selections with (Lucky) in their name are notably firm peaches and have a fantastic ability to hang a very long time on the tree. Most varieties now have both favorable charactristics. All  detailed descriptions of each kind of peach for every ripening period are on the description page called "Flamin' Fury® Varieties". The chill hour range of 700 to 850 hours makes this series very adaptable to many growers in many states. Varieties from the Flamin' Fury® series are being grown very successfuly in many states which include the following: Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Virgina, West Virgina, Idaho, New York and high elevation locations in California.  Jerry Frecon of the Rutgers University Extension Service in New Jersey has found that the Flamin' Fury® series does very well in the varying growing conditions of eastern states. As a result of both field observations and laboratory testing Dr. Bob Andersen has found many varieties of this series to be very adaptible to the advere growing conditions in New York and has highly recommended that many varieties from this series be planted there. Many Flamin' Fury® varieties are also being planted in many areas of Canada. Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi at the University of Idaho and James Pitts, the superintendent of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station for Alburn University, have also found many of my varieties do well in the varying climates of their states.

To navigate this site, simply click on any of the topics located above in the upper left hand corner. I am most appreciative and humbled by the very positive comments made by peach industry folks around the country about my work. Be sure to read the TESTIMONIAL PAGE. 

For an unbiased comparison of the "Flamin' Fury® peach series" and the "Stellar peach series", by Dr. Bob Andersen, please go to the Articles Page.

 A very descriptive run down of all of the very best Flamin' Fury® varieties is found on "The Best Flamin' Fury® Varieties" page.

To order trees from this series, please go to the Nursery/ Variety Availablity page.

For 40 years I have been searching and finding new, improved and superior peach cultivars. I release new varieties after an average of about 17 years experience with a given cultivar. From the many thousands of crosses I have made over the years I currently have 62 peach cultivars in their second and third generation test blocks that show exraordinary potential. Some of these will be released in the near future. My fruit growing family has been in search of better varieties and better methods of growing fruit since they came here from Germany in 1846, ten years after Michigan became a state. My farm which has been in the family for 161 years is located on Friday Road, Coloma, Michigan.

I am very proud to have served as president of the National Peach Council for two consecutive terms and have been a member of it's board for 12 years. I am also past president of the Michigan Peach Sponsors and served on it's board of directors for over 25 years.