North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

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

No denying that Black Monukka makes good raisins.  It just isn't suited for the eastern U.S.  Heck, I have the variety myself and even here in Oregon it's chancy because it will crack and spoil if there's rain at ripening time.
-Lon Rombough
NEW grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short, low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. 
For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.com
A video about The Grape Grower : http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
On May 20, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Spidra Webster wrote:

If you manage a successful crop in spite of what Lon says about it, I've tasted Monukka raisins and they're better than raisins made from Thompson Seedless, in my opinion.