green grape recommendations please

[hawthorns]

can anyone recommend a sweet seedless green/white grape to grow from a vine.

[FB.]

I thought that most seedless grapes were produced by spraying the vines with hormones to stop the embryo pips developing?

[BarleySugar]

Mine, which is Himrod, is naturally seedless. I have grown it for around 25 years, taking cuttings with me each time I've moved. The grapes are small, but very sweet, juicy and seedless. Here in Kent they ripen outside at the end September, but they can also be grown in a greenhouse, as I used to when I lived in Aylesbury. Highly recommended. I have just sent out cuttings to a few 'Grapes', so sadly, I haven't any left now.

[Glutton4...]

Hawthorns, if you PM me your address, I'll send you some of BarleySugar's cuttings. She very kindly sent me loads, so I'm sure I can spare a few!

[realfood]

There are several grape varieties that are naturally seedless and even do well in an unheated Glasgow greenhouse. Flame, the red seedless grape with crisp flesh and Perlette, a white grape. They are both readily available.

[northepaul]

Mine, which is Himrod, is naturally seedless. I have grown it for around 25 years, taking cuttings with me each time I've moved. The grapes are small, but very sweet, juicy and seedless. Here in Kent they ripen outside at the end September, but they can also be grown in a greenhouse, as I used to when I lived in Aylesbury. Highly recommended. I have just sent out cuttings to a few 'Grapes', so sadly, I haven't any left now.

Thats really interesting, as I had always thought that seedless grapes were sprayed to prevent them having seeds.
Learn something new everytime I come here

[FB.]

There are seedless varieties naturally occuring in many fruits. It's just quite rare, since most fruits without seeds tend to drop long before they're ripe.

Last year, my Conference pear produced mostly seedless fruits, as did one of my D'Arcy Spice apple trees (but another of my D'Arcy Spice on the same rootstock, from the same grafting batch, produced normal fruit, which was much larger). Bramley apples also often don't have many pips.