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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Stay with muscadines.  Concord Seedless will last about 6 months there, if you're lucky.  Pierce's disease will do it in quickly.  It's a poor grape even where disease isn't a problem, being a weak grower on all but a few good loam soils.  All commercially available seedless bunch grapes will die of Pierce's Disease in your area.   Orlando Seedless looked like a possible, but then it was found it just took longer to get the disease.
Ison's in GA is supposed to have developed some seedless muscadines, though I can't verify that as muscadines won't ripen here in Oregon.  Not enough heat.
-Lon Rombough
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On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

I am finally getting my arbor built. I am planning on trying 2 varieties
of grapes that I have selected for: low care in my hot, humid climate
and for fresh eating, cooked fruit items, and maybe preserves if I get
ambitious.  I plan on only using Surround for insect control (Japanese
beetles are a perennial problem for me). I am currently favoring Cowart,
a disease-resistant muscadine, and am considering the seedless Concord.
I grew up loving the seeded Concord in the northeast, I am wondering how
the seedless will do.

Any thoughts?

Betsy Hilborn
7a, NC

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