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David Roy Johnson

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The Richard Walden Grape is a real show stopper. It is a hybrid of Flame x ES 5-17.  This grape has clusters bigger than Alden.  It tends to overcrop as well, but when well thinned, it is an awsome table grape with the flavor of Flame Seedless.  There are a few hollow seed traces, but they are very soft.  Due to the wet summer, I have seen a bit of botrytis on a cluster or two, but overall, it is pretty disease free. Maturity season is a bit late for the Puget Sound, but Western Oregon should be about perfect. Fruit ripens late here, but it does. Quite resistant to mildew and botrytis as well and quite productive. Vigor, on a scale of one to ten would be about 7. One of the parents was Elmer's 5-17, so it is at least hardier than most pure vinifera types.I think it has a superior, flame-like flavor.  The vine does tend to over crop as the clusters are fairly large and abundant.

Picture 1: Richard Walden seedless  That branch in front is a vine growing right next to it.

Picture 2: Richard Walden seedless again .. It ripens fairly late up here, but is quite resistant to botrytis. The clusters on a mature vine can reach a foot long.  Mine in the photo has berries about Schuyler size and the photo cluster is about 8 inches long.  Not quite as big as Concord but better than Flame size

Picture 3: Trebbiano

Picture 3a:  Same Picture ..

Picture 4: Red fall on an Elmer Swenson female hybrid.

Picture 5:  Czar Nicholas,

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