Abstract
Diverse geographical and climatic zones in North Carolina permit the culture of a full range of small fruit crops, including rabbiteye and highbush blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and muscadine and bunch grapes. However, information on specific cultivars is scattered throughout various horticultural publications and nursery catalogs and is not readily available. We have developed an extension software program, SELECT-A-BERRY, which facilitates retrieval of small fruit cultivar and nursery information. The menu-driven program has been formatted for the Tandy 1000 (Radio Shack, a Division of Tandy Corp., Fort Worth, Texas) microcomputers recently installed in all North Carolina county extension offices, but it will also run on the IBM-PC and other MS-DOS systems with 256 K bytes of computer memory. Although the program is designed primarily to assist North Carolina commercial and home garden extension clienteles, SELECT-A-BERRY can be modified by agreement with us and the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service for use in other regions as well.
intervals, between two and five times per year, depending on the cultivar and the associated length of the fruiting season. On each of harvest 1–5, a subsample of fruit from each plot was divided into three berry size categories, small (<15 mm), medium (15
various hybrids) by the presence of smaller clusters, unbranched tendrils, and berries with thick skins and a unique fruity aroma. In addition, muscadine berries often abscise from the cluster when ripe and are picked as single berries and sold in plastic
lowest MSE, the lowest PRESS, and when the PRESS values are reasonably close to SSE. Individualized models for each cultivar of the different small fruit berries have been built. In all, individual models involved alone LW parameter, which was the main
populations showed rapid progress back toward a highbush phenotype. In both field and greenhouse ( Table 6 ), berries on BC 1 plants averaged only slightly smaller than berries from highbush seedlings and cultivars. Plant architecture of most hybrids was
quality ( Maust et al., 1999 ; Swain and Darnell, 2002 ). This trend might explain the generally increased total yield per plant from 2016 to 2017, and therefore smaller berries. The berry soluble solid content of tested SHB cultivars ranged from 10.6% to
high levels. Pelargonidin was rare and was not detected in the majority of the clones. It was most commonly found in clones with a pink or red berry color. It was also found in the wine cultivar Noble, which has V. munsoniana in its background. The
grape fruit quality attributes, including berry size, color, berry skin characteristics, and cluster weight at harvest, were measured according to the procedures described by Fallahi et al. (2011) . Five vines of each cultivar were sprayed with
shiny black berries persist on the tree through fall and early winter. Highbush blueberry cultivars have been crossed with V. arboreum with the long-range goal of obtaining cultivars with new characteristics ( Lyrene, 2011 ). Vaccinium arboreum can
first questions from a home gardener is whether the plant is self-fertile and can be planted as a single specimen. ‘Hortblue Petite’ is a compact, small-statured highbush blueberry cultivar, no more than 1.5 m in height. It was selected from open