Suffolk Red Grapes

Suffolk Red (Fredonia x Black Monukka) From Cornell University's Geneva, New York experiment station. A red seedless with firm, non-foxy berries.

The overall quality is good, but the clusters are straggly, with shot berries a problem many years, that the overall weight of crop is low.  The vine has a good upright growth habit that makes it easy to train to cordons with spurs, but production is too low.  Ripens three weeks to a month before Concord, but is only hardy to about -10ºF.  Reliance is an offspring of Suffolk Red and is superior in about all aspects.