Are their any muscadine growers here

[blue skys]

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

Whenever I go to VA/NC to visit family, I always pick up a couple bottles of Duplin Muscadine!!! Now I need to go for a visit, or have them ship some to me!!

 

[Big Red Hen]

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.

That looks good! My hubby needs to put up an arbor like that. He has our vines are on a stake and I know eventually that ain't gonna work. The good part is that the vines has beaucoup tiny grapes on them. Can't wait to pickin' time. By the way, that wouldn't happen to be a pecan tree I see in the back?? I love pecans!

 

[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.

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.

That looks good! My hubby needs to put up an arbor like that. He has our vines are on a stake and I know eventually that ain't gonna work. The good part is that the vines has beaucoup tiny grapes on them. Can't wait to pickin' time. By the way, that wouldn't happen to be a pecan tree I see in the back?? I love pecans!

Yes, it is a pecan tree! Actually, two of them! We love them! We didn't know what they were when we bought the house until the squirrels started dropping pecans on us. The first year hubby made a pecan pie from all those nuts. It took forever to shell them.

I don't know if my vine will have grapes. We shall see - I'm growing it mainly for the folliage, and because it's native.

 

[Texan]

I acutally found a whole bunch of muscadines vines growing wild about 10 miles from me at a park on at Lake Houston. I also found Mustang grape vines as well. I hear they are supposed to produce around July and August. They are growing like crazy out there. I am going to pick me about 50lbs of each kind and make several batches of Muscadine wine, Mustang wine and Muscadine/Mustang wine.

When is the best time of the year (Houston(ish) Texas) to try and transplant some of those vines?