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

Jupiter is a seedless MUSCAT grape.  Muscat is a special flavor/aroma in bunch grapes and though muscat and muscadine sound similar, there is no relation between the two.  Jupiter does NOT have any muscadine ancestry.
The mistake is common enough it's written up in The Grape Grower.
-Lon Rombough
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. 
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On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Sherlock Terry wrote:

Melissa,

I thought that I remembered reading on the list a ways back that Jupiter, a seedless muscadine (cross?), was rated to zone 5 or thereabouts. I was going to try it with additional cover in zone 4.

Here's a link to the description:
http://www.smallfruits.org/BunchGrapes/production/Archives/bgproc_archive07.htm

-Sherlock