Had two purple muscadines vines go bad due to black mold even after spraying every other week, two white muscadines vines are still good to go. I'd like to replace the other two with more of a sweet table grape. Any suggestions?
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Ordered mine from Isons, been happy with them thus far (third year in the ground). I'll check to see what varieties I got tonight. The scuppernongs I got are like candy, have two more vines that should produce this year that are supposed to be good, Darline I believe was the name.
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Reeldoc, I have about 10 varieties of muscadines from Ison's and have quite a few limbs have rooted and growing. I'll have to check on the varieties, but the Ison vine is the best one we have and I have several of them out. If you are interested in a couple of them, let me know.
The muscadines are going to be a lot more trouble free to grow than table grapes.
The muscadines are going to be a lot more trouble free to grow than table grapes.
We have a decent stand of Muscadines and Scuppernongs ... the Scuppers are the best! Our largest and oldest vines are ones from vines we bought on the Outers Banks when we took kid and a friend to the Lost Colony maybe 15 or so back. Supposedly they were rootings from the oldest know grapevines in the US on Roanoke Island however I don’t know if they still sell though. My kid even managed to have a few seeds from them to sprout and actually grow to where we could plant them in the line. Those vines have withstood some colder winters and drier summers along with supposed fungus and bug blights better than the stuff we bought from the local nursery. We just keep them trimmed and run drip irrigation with decent fertilizer and they have done very well ... once we learned how to control the birds, coons, possum, etc.
Hell, they've taken over the woods here, so they can't be tough to grow from seed. Scuppydines are my favorite, right up there with ground cherries.
I have some domesticated ones growing on arbor, and I've found they respond poorly to me screwing with them. If I leave them along and keep the animals off of them, they do just fine. I do prune them every few years.
I have some domesticated ones growing on arbor, and I've found they respond poorly to me screwing with them. If I leave them along and keep the animals off of them, they do just fine. I do prune them every few years.
Generally speaking you don't want to grow from seed for fruit production (unless your purposely developing hybrids). In a wild setting you don't know what you will get as your not controlling where the pollen is coming from. Better to use divisions from established vines that produce the type of grape you want or purchase from a reputable nursery.