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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
