Dobson Grapes Pictures
Dobson Named for it's breeder by Professor Elwyn Meader in Rochester, New Hampshire, who rescued the grape and gave it to others. Mr. Dobson would spread grape seed around his property and let it grow as it would. From the look of this grape, Delaware must figure in it's ancestry. Clusters are small with dull red berries a little larger than Delaware. The clusters are simple, with no wings. The vine has rather low vigor and productivity, and Professor Meader said it wasn't fully hardy for him. The grape is mainly a novelty as it has the most changeable flavor I have seen. It has never been the same two years in a row. One year it had a musky, almost metallic taste. Another year it was oddly perfumed. Still another year it had a "dirty" aftertaste, as though the fruit had been in contact with soil. It would have been interesting to know what the grape tasted like to the breeder. Prune to short spurs on small cordons as the vigor is too low to make more than one or two canes. Probably hardy to no more than -20 F if not less.
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