Since no one else has replied, I will share my experience this year. Not a great one and I hope there's others who had better luck who can share. I had one plant of Mountaineer Delight. In early fruiting, it stunted and gnarled. I suspect due to either wet soils from the heavy rainfall or straw mulch herbicide residue. It was the only variety I had that did that this year. To its credit, it did survive and bounce back. Ultimately, I found nothing remarkable in the fruit and do not plan to grow again. With regards to leaf diseases, it did avoid those longer than some other varieties, but ultimately ended up getting leaf diseases. Again, we had a very wet year here in Georgia.
Again, not trying to bash the variety since it was only one plant in difficult growing conditions. Sounded like a promising project at WVU. So I hope my experience was an outlier.
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