I posted, in another thread, photos of nine fruit trees I planted this spring. In this thread I want to share how one tree in particular is doing and hopefully some of you may be able to share your own experience with this peach, specifically how well it tolerates late frosts.

I planted one each of five peach varieties. All of the trees look from Ok to fine but the Florida King peach, planted from a 2-gallon pot around March 17th, has put on the most new growth and looks super healthy three months later.

Here is the Florida King on April 14th, after it began leafing out

Here is the same tree today, June 20th

I am new to peaches so maybe this is normal for a healthy tree. I measured the green, new growth, branches and most new growth is 30-40". The leaves look healthy and the new branches are sprouting out with lots of secondary twigs. I know I have some pruning in my future. If this is the norm for Florida King, I'm impressed!

I did a little further digging to see if I could find details on flavor profiles for the fruit and it's supposed to be very tasty eaten out of hand. The tree was cultivated for Florida and requires only around 200 hrs of frost hours and ripens fruit off much earlier than many peaches.

Lots of details here on the tree and its fruit:

https://www.howspruce.blog/florida-king-peach-ultimate-guide

Now my question is, how well does this tree (flowers/fruit) tolerate late frosts?

I'm in central East Texas, Zone 8b, and fruequently get late frosts that burn off the new growth on my fig trees. Maybe this will be a lush peach tree but I hesitate to plant more until I find out how well it sets fruit. Any experience out there?