Southern Home Grape

14 years ago

Here is a link to a photo of the Southern Home grape hybrid. If anyone has one growing, I'd sure like to get a few seeds to try in my garden. Sounds like a really nice plant.

Here is a link that might be useful: flikr

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lucky_p
14 years ago
A PNW grape expert indicated to me that 'Southern Home' was not the best of the muscadine/bunch grape hybrids that came out of Dunstan's breeding program - though it seems to be the one that made its way into distribution - perhaps due to its ornamental appeal as much as any other feature - and that some of the hybrids that Bob Zehnder bred over in SC were even better than anything Dunstan came up with - though I don't know who's taken possession of Zehnder's collection since his death(in his 80s) several years back.
dynamite1959
14 years ago
Would you please send me more info on Bob Zehnders collection of muscadines? I am going to Google also to see what I can find. I am interested in the golden/bronze "scuppernogs". Thanks
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dynamite1959
14 years ago
Would you please send me more info on Bob Zehnders collection of muscadines? I am going to Google also to see what I can find. I am interested in the golden/bronze "scuppernogs". Thanks
gonebananas_gw
14 years ago
http://www.grapebreeders.org/Gb/Articles/Bob_Zehnder/Bob.htm

http://floridagrapes.com/zehnder/zehnderlist

See also, similarly, Dunstan in the following:
http://floridagrapes.com/
gonebananas_gw
14 years ago
I also consider "Southern Home" as outstanding more as an ornamental. It is merely average (though there is nothing wrong with that) as an eating grape. Perhaps it may excel in wine, I don't know.
boizeau
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14 years ago
I planted a few seeds from Southern Home last year, and a few of the seedlings also have those deeply cut leaves. It is cool looking. I hope some of them also have good fruit. Time will tell. This far north , I may not get them ripe, but will have an ornamental vine to look at.
blwine
13 years ago
I have been growing southern home for quite sometime now, along with 4-5 other varieties of muscadine. I love the grape, and it makes a decent neutral red wine. Growing grapes from seed, is hit and miss, you never know what genetics you will get, and most muscadines grown from seed will never fruit. you will need to layer a growing shoot to get an exact match of the parent, pull up the layered shoot during dormacy(rooted)and plant the shoot the next season.
tanjarose26
12 years ago
I live in Tampa. I have the Sothern Home vine growing in my yard. If you want a clipping to root, email me. Tanjarose26 at yahoo.com
pam_woodson_live_com
12 years ago
Would the Southern Home Grapes happen to be seedless? I bought two before it dawned on me that I should have looked for seedless.

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