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Anyone here grow muscadines?
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:02 pm
If so, what varieties do you grow? What variety is your favorite and why?
I have two Darlene vines and one each of Tara, Fry, Black Beauty, Janet, Pineapple, Paulk, Surpreme, and Dixie Red.
Darlene is my favorite one. It’s my best tasting variety, but is not a heavy producer. I really like Dixie Red as well. The muscadines are smaller in size but are very sweet and it is a heavy producer.
I have two Darlene vines and one each of Tara, Fry, Black Beauty, Janet, Pineapple, Paulk, Surpreme, and Dixie Red.
Darlene is my favorite one. It’s my best tasting variety, but is not a heavy producer. I really like Dixie Red as well. The muscadines are smaller in size but are very sweet and it is a heavy producer.
This post was edited on 4/17/19 at 9:03 pm
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Posted on 4/18/19 at 5:35 am to Bee Man
Just planted 4 this year. Ison, Hall, Tara, and Noble. Parents had them growing up, but have since moved from that house. I'm excited to try my hand at them in the years to come.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 7:26 am to Bee Man
I have six, will have to look up the varieties, but they do not taste as good as the wild ones. that bothers me.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 11:05 am to jeffsdad
quote:Since I live in the middle of nowhere I have loads of wild vines. A few years ago Dad cut one with a chainsaw that was about 18" in diameter and ran to the top of an extremely old oak in the SW corner of the back yard. That thing would really bring the deer and squirrels in.
I have six, will have to look up the varieties, but they do not taste as good as the wild ones. that bothers me.
Grandad used to talk about climbing the trees on the place when his in-laws were still alive to get grapes. Great Grandmother reportedly made very good wine, and her jelly was OK too.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:31 pm to lsurulzes88
Where are you located? My Tara is a consistent heavy producer. They are good size as well for a self fertile variety.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:36 pm to jeffsdad
This surprises me. I found and tasted some wild ones last summer and they were terrible compared to my varieties. The wild ones had thick skins and weren’t very sweet at all.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:39 pm to Sidicous
I made jelly for the first time last year. It came out really good. I also gave about 40 pounds of muscadines to my buddy so he could try to make some wine. It turned out pretty good for his first try at it.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:51 pm to Bee Man
I am in Prairieville. I have them setup on a fence trellis system and am hopeful for a little fruit next year.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:00 pm to lsurulzes88
I’m about 30 min from you. I was just curious whether your climate would be similar to mine. Soil type matters as well, but I would assume your Tara will do well also.
Do you follow the Ison’s fertilizer schedule?
Do you follow the Ison’s fertilizer schedule?
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:06 pm to Bee Man
So far I have. Just dropped calcium nitrate a few days ago.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:08 pm to lsurulzes88
How old do wild ones have to be before they produce decently? It seems like most of the ones you see in neighborhoods don't really produce or every other year and not much? Is this normal?
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:35 pm to baldona
I’m not sure about the wild ones, but the cultivated varieties produce every year. In general, the self fertile varieties produce more, but they are smaller with a lower sugar content. The female varieties need to be pollinated by a self fertile variety and produce less, but are larger with a higher sugar content.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:42 pm to Bee Man
When I used to live on a golf course I'd check all the muscadines along the golf cart paths that were natural, and they just almost never produced well at all. Nothing close to what cultivated varieties produce.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 5:26 pm to baldona
I’ve read that a lot of the wild muscadine are males, and will never produce fruit.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 10:00 pm to Bee Man
I have lived on two properties with lots of wild muscadines and the problem I found was the birds get them before they are ripe enough for human consumption.
You see them as little baby green grapes and start looking forward to harvest time, and then they are picked clean by the wildlife before they even get halfway ripe.
You see them as little baby green grapes and start looking forward to harvest time, and then they are picked clean by the wildlife before they even get halfway ripe.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 6:49 am to deeprig9
I have two, 100’ rows and anxiously await the fruit getting ripe in mid to late summer. Every year, I have my eye on the first several that are beginning to ripen. Without fail, THE DAY that I decide to pick them, they are half pecked by birds before I get home from work. I now have a hatred of mocking birds. The only good thing is that as the season progresses, there are too many muscadines for even the mocking birds to eat.
I think I’m going to buy some bird netting this year though. I don’t plan on sharing anymore.
I think I’m going to buy some bird netting this year though. I don’t plan on sharing anymore.
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