tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17114909.post114412224086768230..comments2023-07-07T07:37:38.679-07:00Comments on Dowd's Wine Notebook: Breaking the Cornell codeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17114909.post-1149260273091597322006-06-02T07:57:00.000-07:002006-06-02T07:57:00.000-07:00The Evil Fruit Lord was too modest to provide you ...The Evil Fruit Lord was too modest to provide you with a direct link to his own blog. But, as a thank-you for his posting, <A HREF="http://thefruitblog.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">here</A> it is.William M. Dowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00194419248332687100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17114909.post-1149124901328356842006-05-31T18:21:00.000-07:002006-05-31T18:21:00.000-07:00If anyone's curious, the actual code in the number...If anyone's curious, the actual code in the numbers breaks down as follows:<BR/><BR/>For example, in "NY 70.0809.10":<BR/><BR/>"NY" is just "New York", letting people know what breeding program this came out of. (Although most other programs use a simpler numbering system, so Cornell selections are fairly readily identiable just by their numbers.)<BR/><BR/>"70" stands for the year the cross was made - 1970<BR/><BR/>"08" is the code for which crop the cross is in...this changes each year, and I'm not sure why they insist on doing that. That particular year, all grape crosses would have been designated 70.08xx. Frequently people outside the Cornell system drop the initial zero, which is fine but not technically correct (and screws up people doing Google searches).<BR/><BR/>"09" is the cross number, in this case representing SV 18-307 x Steuben. So all grapes with numbers beginning with 70.0809 will have come from the same cross.<BR/><BR/>".10" is the selection number. Most seedlings from this cross never had any identity beyond 70.0809 and a row and vine number. However, when a seedling sufficiently impresses the breeders to warrant further attention, it is given a selection number and several new vines propagated to a second test vineyard. In this case, this is the tenth seedling from this cross to be selected for further testing.<BR/><BR/>I'm excited to see all three of these are finally going to make it to release. They're really nice grapes, and as you can tell from the leading digits of their numbers, they've been kicking around the program for a while, and I think a lot of people will be impressed by them. I personally am a big fan of 62.0122.01 especially, although the Finger Lakes probably need good hybrid reds even more.Evil Fruit Lordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418359967016333855noreply@blogger.com