Integration of alternative drying varieties with efficient low input and highly productive management systems
Seedless varieties which had shown considerable promise as large berried alternatives to the seeded lexialraisin varieties, Muscat Gordo Blanco and Waltham Cross were evaluated as drying varieties in semicommercial size plantings over 6 years. Treatments were superimposed on the varietal plantings to assess the potential for mechanisation. Treatments comparisons included different trellising, rootstocks, hand picking or trellis drying, and GA application . (DFRDC project no CSH17)