TROLLHAUGEN

Description

TROLLHAUGEN (E.S. 3-24-7)

(Interspecific hybrid: includes Vitis Labrusca, Vitis Riparia)

BLUE SEEDLESS* TABLE GRAPE

• Delicious, sweet, round, seedless blue berries
• Small to medium sized berries
• Thin and non-adherent skin (slipskin)
• Small cylindrical and compact clusters
• Hardy to Zone 4b, approximately -32°C (-25,6°F)
• Grows in zones 4b, 5, 6 and above
• Very resistant to winter cold, without any protection
• Ripening period: early, beginning of the season, beginning-to-mid September in zone 4b. Requires 950-1000 CDD 10°C (Celsius Degree-Days base 10°C)–or 1710-1800 FDD base 50°F- to mature fruit
• Very productive vine and more disease resistant than Montreal Blues
• The vine is very vigorous ideal to cover fences and/or pergolas
• Similar to the notorious Concord but hardier with thinner skin sweeter and seedless.
• Ideal to eat fresh (dessert, snacks, cheese board accompaniment…)
• Self-pollinating

*Although considered a «seedless» variety, seeds might occasionally appear some years, when the vine has been “stressed”.

As stated by Cornell University: «The degree of seedlessness varies greatly among seedless grape varieties. Most seedless grapes have vestigial seed traces that range in size from very small to large and noticeable. Seed traces in berries of the same variety may vary greatly in size and in the hardness of their seed coats. Climate is also known to affect seed trace size. Occasionally the seed traces in some seedless grapes are large enough to be bothersome to consumers.»