Post by lieven on Jan 7, 2016 16:39:15 GMT -5
Charles Welch has been breeding new plants for 50 years or more. He is an amateur but has bred scores of new award-winning plants. Eight of the 10 apples in his garden are his own. His sweet pea 'Ballerina Blue’ has won many accolades.
Perhaps Welch’s most interesting new variety to date is the chuckleberry. This fruit, which looks like a blackcurrant but tastes very different, fruits in its first year and can be eaten fresh, cooked or made into jam. As this berry (a cross with a redcurrant, a red gooseberry and a jostaberry [gooseberry/blackcurrant cross]) is such a breakthrough, he is working with Meiosis in Kent (meiosis.co.uk), which specialises in introducing new fruit varieties throughout the world. It is being bulked up for mass marketing and trialled by a major corporation.
Plant Breeders’ Rights have been taken out and so growers cannot profit from it without giving a percentage to the breeder.
Perhaps Welch’s most interesting new variety to date is the chuckleberry. This fruit, which looks like a blackcurrant but tastes very different, fruits in its first year and can be eaten fresh, cooked or made into jam. As this berry (a cross with a redcurrant, a red gooseberry and a jostaberry [gooseberry/blackcurrant cross]) is such a breakthrough, he is working with Meiosis in Kent (meiosis.co.uk), which specialises in introducing new fruit varieties throughout the world. It is being bulked up for mass marketing and trialled by a major corporation.
Plant Breeders’ Rights have been taken out and so growers cannot profit from it without giving a percentage to the breeder.
From www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/9895780/Breed-a-new-plant-for-gardening-immortality.html
Also:
www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/acatalog/Chuckleberry_Feedback.pdf
Is anyone trying this new cross?
www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/
