Sweet Cap Peach Tree

Sweet Cap Tree Overview

The Sweet Cap peach tree, also known as the Common peach, is a flat/doughnut peach variety which is perfect for home orchards. These trees produce delicious yellow/red peaches with radiant pink flowers in the spring. Not only is the fruit delicious, juicy, sweet, and aromatic, but it is also perfect for canning, preserving, and baking as well as eating off the tree.

Just like some other peach trees, the Sweet Cap peach tree prefers fertile well-draining soils. It can grow well in hardiness zones 5-9. Moreover these peaches will ripen mid summer. They will decorate the landscape with a bouquet of aromatic, pink blossoms. However during flowering, it is more susceptible to damage from a late frost. If you would like more information on how to plant and grow fruit tree, see the articles in our guide.

Growing Characteristics

• Uses: Eating fresh, canning, cooking, preserving
• Taste: Firm, juicy, sweet, and aromatic
• Size: oval shaped peaches
• Color: Yellow skin with a scarlet blush and white flesh
• Height: 12-15ft
• Hardiness Zones: 5-9
• Harvest period: Mid-summer
• Pollination: Although the Sweet Cap peach tree is self-fertile, which means it can produce fruit without the help of other trees, the fruiting can improve when you plant other peach varieties close by.
• Diseases: In order to prevent diseases like leaf curl and brown rot, spraying is a good idea.
• Cultivation: Sweet cap peach trees need well-drained, fertile soils. Additionally, they need full sun. Moreover, they have a spreading habit and are susceptible to late spring freezes and disease.