Volume 60 Number 3 Article 17
Year 2006 Month 7
Title: Performance of 20 Muscadine Grape Cultivars in North Florida
Author: P.C. Anderson
Abstract:
Vine yield, vigor, and attributes of berry quality of 20 cultivars of muscadine grapevines (Vitis rotundifolia Michx.)
were determined at the North Florida Research and Education Center-Quincy from 2002-2005. The performance
of many of the new muscadine grape cultivars in this trial has not been previously evaluated.
The grape cultivars
may be categorized by berry size: 1) small self fruitful (‘Carlos’, ‘Creek’, ‘Noble’); 2) medium self fruitful (‘Alachua’,
‘Regale’); medium-large self fruitful (‘Granny Val’, ‘Pineapple’, ‘Polyanna’, ‘Tara’, ‘Triumph’), and 4)
large female or pistillate (‘Black Beauty’, ‘Black Fry’, ‘Early Fry’, ‘Fry’, ‘Jumbo’, ‘Pam’, ‘Scarlet’, ‘Summit’,
‘Supreme’, ‘Sweet Jenny’) cultivars. ‘Noble’ and ‘Carlos’ had the highest vigor and consistently produced the highest
yield (estimated at 45 kg/vine) and they are the two best cultivars for juice or wine production.
Soluble solids
of the muscadine cultivars at harvest ranged from 15 to 19°Brix with ‘Fry’, ‘Polyanna’, ‘Scarlet’, and ‘Summit’
having the highest and ‘Jumbo’ and ‘Regale’ the lowest soluble solids.
Large-fruited cultivars that are particularly
suitable to direct to consumer operations included ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Fry’ and ‘Pam’. ‘Supreme’ produced very large
berries, but vine vigor was low due, in part, to overcropping.
Good pollenizers for the pistillate cultivars listed
above were ‘Granny Val’, ‘Polyanna’ and ‘Tara’.
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