Wow, you have quite the collection. Sounds like you’re doing some righteous breeding work too. It does seem there’s lots of room for improvement still. It’s the case, as I understand it, that Jim Claypool’s breeding work was based almost entirely around crosses involving Early Golden. Of these, a number were self pollinated seedlings I believe. If someone know more about the specifics, please chime in.
These are the varieties I’m growing:
Fruiting:
Prok
Yates
Szukis
Mohler
MacKenzie Corner
Flowering, but setting male flowers only:
Geneva Long (purported, but suspect)
Well established grafts:
Early Jewel - I.e. H-118, I.e. Prairie Star
Dollywood
Mikkusu / JT-02 (hybrid)
Kasandra (hybrid)
Rosseyanka (hybrid)
Buzz’s Favorite
Downingtown Middle
Younger whip grafts (last year):
H-63A
Britain Blue
DEC King Crimson
DEC Goliath
DEC Money Maker
DEC Large Morris Burton
Fruit Dump
Downingtown South
100-43
Journey (hybrid)
Bozhyj Dar (hybrid) winterkilled? late graft
Dar Sofiyevki (hybrid) winterkilled? late graft
Adding this year (haven’t grafted yet):
I-94 Valene Beauty
DEC Earliest (not sure it’s been named)
David’s Kandy (hybrid)
Chuchupaka (hybrid)
Sosnovskaya (hybrid)
Kujinaja
Blitsnetsnaja (spelling may be off on these two)
I’m not doing any breeding per se beyond casual seed saving, which has plenty of potential too, I’d imagine. Mainly I’m interested in growing these and evaluating them. Oh, and I almost forgot about eating them!