| Cultivar Name: |
Wood Colony
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| Type |
Almond |
| Synonyms |
Woods Colony
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| Patent |
Burchell Nursery, Modesto 1985 PP05583
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| Parentage |
chance seedling
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| Species |
Prunus dulcis
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| Usage |
Scion
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| Chill Requirement |
400 chill hours required
|
| Bloom Time |
+2
days relative to Nonpareil
|
| S Genotype |
SaSc |
| CIG |
III |
| Nut Classification |
California
Carmel
|
| Kernal Size |
Medium
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| Kernal % of Nut |
61%
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| Nut Shell |
Semi-Soft
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| Tree Size |
Small
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| Yield |
High
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| Ripening time |
+2
weeks relative to
Nonpareil
|
| Self Compatible |
No - Not Self Compatible
|
| Pollinators |
pollenizer such as Nonpareil, Carmel, Sonora, Winters, Price, Aldrich, Merced, and more are required.
|
| Description |
Discovered by David E. Blickenstaff, Modesto, Calif., as a chance seedling. Introd. in 1985. Moderately compact size, suitable for close plantings. Consistent, heavy producer. |
| References |
- Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties, Brooks and Olmo. List 36. September, 1994. HortScience, Vol. 29(9).
- Burchell Nursery Fruit and Nut Tree Varieties. Link
- Dave Wilson Nursery. Link
- Characteristics of California Almonds, Growing Advantage. Link
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Identification of Stylar RNases Associated with Gametophytic SelfIncompatibility
in Almond {Prunus dulcis); Link
- The Evaluation and Selection of Current Varieties; written by WESLEY K. ASAI, WARREN C. MICKE, DALE E. KESTER, AND DONALD ROUGH; Link
- A Mutation in ‘Nonpareil’ Almond Conferring
Unilateral Incompatibility, written by Dale E. Kester and Warren C. Micke ; Link
- Almond Variety Development, team leader Gradziel; Link
- Multidimensional Analysis of S-alleles from Cross-incompatible Groups of California Almond Cultivars; written Barckley, Uratsu, Gradziel, Dandekar; Link
- Burchell Nursery Almond Cross-Compatibility Chart; Link
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No photos for this cultivar.
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