Chalk Mountain cinerea x Villard Blanc

Saturday, I went up to Chalk Mountain and picked my crosses.  It was the first time I had been up since May 27 when I pollinated.

I had 6 clusters bagged.  In each bag, I had used a twisty to attach a flower to the cinerea blossom.  I didn't try using a brush to pollinate.  It was a bit early, and flowers were not open, yet.

In 4 cases, the twisty didn't hold and the flower fell off.  Zero berries produced.  In two bags, the twisty stuck.  In one, 0 berries.

That left one bag.  Chalk Mountain cinerea x Villard Blanc.  This had 8 dark berries and a number green ones of various sizes.    Each of the 8 dark berries had 1 seed.  I checked the 3 largest green berries and foudn each had a full sized light green seed.

I didn't see any clusters in the trees.  This surprised me.  I know where to look, but didn't find any.

The vine was very stressed out.  There were no leaves on the cane I had used for bagging clusters..

I suspect the berries were not as ripe as they would be in a few weeks.  The brix was only 18.6.  Last year, on 9/2/12, I got a brix of 21.5.

I will be planting the seeds in a few days.  I'm also going to try rooting some North African vinifera that has been in the refrigerator all summer.  It came from GRIN too late to root.  Summer temps were almost upon us.