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Muscadine grapes
Posted on 8/19/24 at 5:52 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 5:52 pm
Anyone go out and collect wild muscadine grapes. I am starting to see some ripe ones. I am in St. Francisville area. One year I had so many I made about 15 jars of jelly. Talk about good. Anyone else seeing ripe grapes yet. I have a long pole I use to pick ones high up in the trees.
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Posted on 8/19/24 at 5:57 pm to JRinNOLA
No ripe ones yet but seeing plenty on vines in canopy. Hoping some stay on vines till October 1st!!
Posted on 8/19/24 at 5:58 pm to JRinNOLA
I used to pick them but then I moved to St Francisville and haven't made the effort to go find some good spots. I have a few domestic vines in my yard but they're only 2 years old. Hopefully get some next year.
I used to pick buckets full of them along Big Alabama bayou. I'd shake em down and load up. My mom makes awesome pepper jelly with them.
The hogs tear them up. I used to kill the piss out of hogs while picking them.
I used to pick buckets full of them along Big Alabama bayou. I'd shake em down and load up. My mom makes awesome pepper jelly with them.
The hogs tear them up. I used to kill the piss out of hogs while picking them.
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:05 pm to JRinNOLA
Had some wild ones that grew at my old place in the woods. I had to fight the deer for them.
My mom got muscadines from an old friend of hers a few years and she would make jelly. Best damn jelly ever. She even won 1st place at the Tangipahoa Fair. Ha!
Been talking about trying to grow some vines on my new place.
My mom got muscadines from an old friend of hers a few years and she would make jelly. Best damn jelly ever. She even won 1st place at the Tangipahoa Fair. Ha!
Been talking about trying to grow some vines on my new place.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:07 pm to JRinNOLA
Mine aren't wild, but they are getting ripe now. Are a few this morning.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:15 pm to JRinNOLA
Houston area they ripened a month or more ago. Some tough skin and seeds to separate out imo.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:27 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Some tough skin and seeds to separate out imo.
It's ok to swallow them. They just come out of your a-hole later.
I have a ton of wild ones in the back yard but the wildlife always gets them before I do.
I grew up 3 doors down from a family that cultivated them in their backyard, they let us neighborhood kids come by anytime and pick our own. I have wonderful childhood memories of eating them.
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:31 pm to JRinNOLA
I've got 12 different vines, all different varieties. Some are starting to ripen now and I'll have some that won't be ripe until mid-late september.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:36 pm to JRinNOLA
Interesting story about Scuppernongs/Muscadines origin in North America.
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:50 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Houston area they ripened a month or more ago. Some tough skin and seeds to separate out imo
Get you one of these. My mom has one. It's like magic. Idk how hell it works but it does. You dump the muscadines in, steam them, and juice pours out the tube.
Norpro 619 Stainless Steel Steamer/Juicer, One Size, without Canning Kit LINK
Posted on 8/19/24 at 6:58 pm to JRinNOLA
ate plenty as a kid and granpa make wine out of it. As I got older I tried it so damn sweet like a dessert wine. but those balls of sugar were awesome!!
that is in New Iberia across from Dodson elem
that is in New Iberia across from Dodson elem
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:14 pm to JRinNOLA
I ate a few this weekend while clearing roads and shooting lanes in NWLA. Didn’t see enough to make jelly with.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:44 pm to JRinNOLA
Covington LA. Went for a walk this evening with my son and we found some. They are well ripe around here
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:47 pm to JRinNOLA
MIL has a vine in her yard and we picked 3 gallon bags Saturday. Last year the drought messed it up. Year before she picked 6 or 7 gallons total
Sister in laws bf mad a couple bottles of wines that were pretty good
Sister in laws bf mad a couple bottles of wines that were pretty good
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:57 pm to JRinNOLA
Went fishing this morning and saw a ton. Thousands im sure. I usually don’t notice stuff like that while I’m fishing, but there was so many they caught my eye. I had to google search them because I wasn’t sure if it actually was muscadines. I’ve never ate them before, but I might go back and pick a few and try them out.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:09 pm to A_bear
Picked some this morning have a vine on pasture fence behind the house in Lafourche parish. My wife loves them.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:11 pm to TTU97NI
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granpa make wine out of it. As I got older I tried it so damn sweet like a dessert wine
That's because a dry (no sugar) muscadine wine tastes like paint thinner, and you can polish metal with it. If you leave it sweet, it still tastes good. But is sweet, like a dessert wine. Believe me, you don't want to drink a dry muscadine wine. It's all tannins and high-fusel alcohol molecules, unless you age it for 30 years.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:18 pm to A_bear
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I’ve never ate them before, but I might go back and pick a few and try them out.
You don't eat them like a grape. It's more like eating sunflower seeds with the tongue and tooth work.
You pop it in your mouth, bite down, and the pulp shoot out into your mouth, use your tongue to separate the pulp from the skin. Spit out the skin. Now you have the seeds to deal with, embedded in the pulp. Use your teeth and tongue to get those out, spitting them out one by one, while holding the pulp in a cheek pocket like dip. Then swallow the pulp. Then repeat with a new one. Real pros can do two at a time.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:44 pm to A_bear
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I’ve never ate them before,
dang man, now the time then. Got a container full sitting next to me right now. As the feller above me says, half the fun is eating them. Like sunflower seeds. A workout for the tongue.
I've also been eating the cultivated variety of muscadine called "Scuppernongs". These are fantastic and the even the skin is good to eat.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:33 pm to JRinNOLA
We actually grow them on my farm. So do many of my neighbors.
I feel certain that, one day soon, they will be a top five crop here behind Peaches, kiwi, corn and kale.
We sell ours to Welch's for grape jelly.
I feel certain that, one day soon, they will be a top five crop here behind Peaches, kiwi, corn and kale.
We sell ours to Welch's for grape jelly.
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