Are their any muscadine growers here

[Texan]

I've been a little bummed that grapes are not really grown around here. Then someone mentioned that Muscadines are a southern grape. I make wine so this is great for me. I am just wondering if any of yall have any advice for me before I go off on a muscadine mission.

 

[vfem]

I know muscadine is the best growing grape of NC, and I was told generally it does the best in NC only. They do grow in SC, GA and VA pretty good.... but they need general care in those parts. The issue with Muscadine... they LOVE humidity to thrive. They don't really exsist in regions where its dry or freezes below a certain temp in the winter.

The do may LOVELY wine though!!! Go do some research on Duplin County Winery... its my favorite winery around here and they do muscadine grape wines.

http://www.duplinwinery.com/index.p...ntnt01returnid=123&mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0

 

[Texan]

I know muscadine is the best growing grape of NC, and I was told generally it does the best in NC only. They do grow in SC, GA and VA pretty good.... but they need general care in those parts. The issue with Muscadine... they LOVE humidity to thrive. They don't really exsist in regions where its dry or freezes below a certain temp in the winter.

The do may LOVELY wine though!!! Go do some research on Duplin County Winery... its my favorite winery around here and they do muscadine grape wines.

http://www.duplinwinery.com/index.p...ntnt01returnid=123&mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0

Thank You for that link and I will certainly go look at it. Houston is the most humid place I have ever been and its rare that we ever freeze where I am at. Its gets close sometimes. Ifin it were going to I would protect the plants.

 

[vfem]

Here's some more background on the grape itself... this will fill you with wonderful info!!!

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/muscadinegrape.html

(I have a good recipe for jelly for them if you decide to grow them. )

 

[Texan]

Here's some more background on the grape itself... this will fill you with wonderful info!!!

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/muscadinegrape.html

(I have a good recipe for jelly for them if you decide to grow them. )

Thank You for the link.

I am ordering

1 Ison-black self fertilzing 19% sugar
4 Black Beauties- female 23% sugar
1 Sweet Jenny-female 23% sugar
1 Pineapple self fertilizing 16% sugar.

That will give me seven vines and enough muscadine wine to make me very very very happy

 

[Dennis1979]

Texan,

Just joined so a few weeks late on this topic but I thought I would chime in. Muscadines are everywhere around here (i.e. Houston and SE Texas). You can find them on trails, pipelines power lines etc. in the wooded areas. I don't know if you can dig them up and transplant them or not. Maybe easier to buy the plants somewhere. However, if you want large quantities of them for winemaking or whatever, then find a good patch of them, wait until around September or so and you can get all you want. I live in Kingwood and we have on occaision filled our freezer by "harvesting" muscadines off the bike trails.

I have tasted muscadine wine before and it was really good, but then I probably can't tell a fine wine from MD 20/20. I do make my own beer though. If only malted barley would grow on a vine somewhere

Dennis

 

[Texan]

Texan,

Just joined so a few weeks late on this topic but I thought I would chime in. Muscadines are everywhere around here (i.e. Houston and SE Texas). You can find them on trails, pipelines power lines etc. in the wooded areas. I don't know if you can dig them up and transplant them or not. Maybe easier to buy the plants somewhere. However, if you want large quantities of them for winemaking or whatever, then find a good patch of them, wait until around September or so and you can get all you want. I live in Kingwood and we have on occaision filled our freezer by "harvesting" muscadines off the bike trails.

I have tasted muscadine wine before and it was really good, but then I probably can't tell a fine wine from MD 20/20. I do make my own beer though. If only malted barley would grow on a vine somewhere

Dennis

Thank You. By the way, we are neighbors as I live off of 59 & East Mt Houston. Have put hurricane clips on many houses in Kingwood.

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Oops, I missed this thread somehow. I'm growing muscadine up my arbor right now. I transplanted the vine from my front yard. It was growing out of a hedge that we tore out. I decided to see if the grape would come back if I transplanted it, so I did my best to dig it up intact (was somewhat successful), then cut the top off and stuck it in the ground by the arbor. It grew a pathetic little vine out of it that first summer (last year), but this year it is back with a vengeance! It grows wild around here, so I just stuck it in the ground and let it be. No care needed. I love it!

You can see it on the right side of the arbor in this photo - the leaves are lobed, which can be seen in some muscadines. They are usually round. Now that the vine is getting bigger, more of the leaves are leafing out round. The plant on the left is jasmine.

We also have a muscadine winery right down the road. Check it out here.

 

[big brown horse]

I grew up in Austin Co. TX. Riding my pony through the thicket near my small town, we kids always ate the grapes all summer long. We had the purple fingers and lips to proove it. (We didn't eat the skins, just squeezed the insides into our mouth.)

But the point is that they were plentyful and wild! Austin Co. is not too far from Houston.

 

[big brown horse]

Oops, I missed this thread somehow. I'm growing muscadine up my arbor right now. I transplanted the vine from my front yard. It was growing out of a hedge that we tore out. I decided to see if the grape would come back if I transplanted it, so I did my best to dig it up intact (was somewhat successful), then cut the top off and stuck it in the ground by the arbor. It grew a pathetic little vine out of it that first summer (last year), but this year it is back with a vengeance! It grows wild around here, so I just stuck it in the ground and let it be. No care needed. I love it!

You can see it on the right side of the arbor in this photo - the leaves are lobed, which can be seen in some muscadines. They are usually round. Now that the vine is getting bigger, more of the leaves are leafing out round. The plant on the left is jasmine.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/svenjaxeller/garden stuff/DSC03717-Copy.jpg
We also have a muscadine winery right down the road. Check it out here.

Looks great!!

I think muscadine is a tough vine, you have to be tough to survive the heat in the south! I don't think it likes to be babied either.