The secret story of the birth of peach

A peach flower that blooms to follow the cherry blossoms. In the Kofu Basin, pink carpets spread from the lower elevation to run up the hill in order.
At Asama-en in Ichinomiya-cho, at a height above the basin, the peak of flowering was at the same time as the pollination work. It seems that white peach peach has less pollen and artificial pollination is indispensable.



First, pick flowers that are rich in pollen. It seems to be good for the openness of about seven minutes. Grains attached to the tip of the stamen. There is pollen in this.







Put the picked flowers in a special machine and divide them into petals and flower core parts. Then sift it and take out only the pollen sac containing pollen. It is steady work.









If you put it in a plate and put it in a machine and dry it, you will get yellowish pollen. You put it on a hair-like tool and let it pollinate one flower at a time.
The seasons of flowers are slightly shifted due to the yearly weather and weather. It's a great job to work on farming while identifying it. We are in a state of jealousy that flowers bloom and are beautiful, and we have a hardship that we can not imagine.
Also, this is for us to eat sweet and fresh peach fruits.
I am looking forward to meeting that taste this year.