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OT Kyoho grape rare Japanese variety

I grow grapes in pots and keep in basement during the winter.
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Originally Posted by fignutty
Mara: Summer Muscat is definitely worth netting. Sure wish I could figure out how to grow bigger berries that don't crack. This is IMO one of the best flavored fruits anywhere anytime. Hope you like yours. 

I was disappointed at first with the small size of the Blueberry grape which is the size of blueberries. It surprised me last year by being the earliest of any of my grapes. The flavor was unremarkable. But I just pretended they were blueberries, and since there was nothing else around to eat, it was okay. My poor blueberries are all struggling with the heat, drought, and mineral, alkaline water, haven't been productive for a while now. It's good to have something fruiting at that time. 
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Yes, for some reason blueberries are not easy to grow. I have few pink bushes for 3 years- no berries yet.                 
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I'm putting together my 2016 order right now, and I just found your grape.  It's not on my list because we only grow wine grapes of certain varietals that grow well and produce in our climate.  I'm looking to increase our vineyard production with the Groasis Waterboxx so that in our drought, we can still grow our vineyard with zero irrigation.

You probably already have this, but here you go......

456 DVIT 616 - Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera - Kyoho - Japan -- rank: 934
DVIT 616 Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera VITACEAE (wine grape) 'Kyoho' Developed in: Japan Maintained by the Natl. Germplasm ... loose; berry large; skin deep purple; flesh similar to vinifera, flavor foxy like Herbert; soluable solid contents varying ... Site Old Name ---------- ----------- ------ ------------------------------------------------ NOM-CHANGE 06-Aug-2002 SBML Vitis vinifera Source History Accession was developed. 1935. Japan. Developers ...
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acchtml.pl?1007564 - 3468 bytes -

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