They make sure you can’t grow them. I’ve bought hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of their grapes from the moon drop ones to cotton candy and all the ones in between looking for a piece that could be propagated…
They don’t include enough of the plant to do so and they do it on purpose 
To be able to get a piece that can regrow, you would need more than just the stems holding the grapes in place. They cut them as close to the grapes as possible rendering it impossible to propagate the plants.
I bought some shine muscat from h mart and was hoping to propagate them, but it looks like that’s a fools errand per your experience
Yeah 
unfortunately
I think that it would make more sense to create your own hybrid grapes, I think that the only way to propagate ‘Cotton Candy Grapes’ is to do something that gets someone in to serious legal trouble. The variety is as valuable as gold to the people who own the patents, they are not going to let any of their growers give away any plant material that can be propagated. I am actually surprised at how much they manage to remove from the vine.
Unless you live in an arid, temperate climate like parts of California, trying to grow cotton candy grapes would be quite difficult anyway. They wouldn’t perform well for most people even if you could legally get them. With grapes, it’s best to figure out what varieties will grow well in your region, and go from there. If you want to try a grape with some of the cotton candy flavor and that is available to the public, you might try marquis. It’s not exactly the same flavor as the variety that is marketed under the trademark name “cotton candy” but it does contain significant amounts of the compound Furaneol, which is the natural compound in grapes that gives the cotton candy flavor as I recall. Like most grapes, it will require sprays to control disease in all but the most arid regions of the USA, and it cannot be grown in much of the southeastern USA because it is not resistant to pierces disease.
Etsy marketplace and Sophia’s on here sells Shine grape vines. Fyi.
Tony
I wouldn’t trust a lot of Etsy sellers and i buy a lot of random things from Etsy.
Who is Sophia though? 
Sophia is one of our members here. She got rare fruit trees that most of Us don’t have. PM her if you are looking and wanting to buy cuttings or vine for Shine grape.
Tony
Very true. IFG is very strict with the licenses for cotton candy grapes.
I had those same shine muscats earlier this year from Hmart and was actually quite disappointed by them. I am in Japan now and bought a bunch and they were the best grape I can remember eating. Is it just a season thing? I don’t really grow grapes but the difference in taste was significant.
They’re old by the time they get to America. I felt the same way when i was in south Korea. They were amazing there but i think they were fresh as well
Here in Spain, it’s not too difficult to find scions of these varieties, there are many plantations in the southeast.
I think Cotton Candy is good (perhaps too sweet), but my favorite from the Candy series is Candy Dreams, which has a very unique flavor.
However, there are many seedless grapes that are better than these, such as Sweet Celebration, Magenta, Sable or Autumn Crisp, which are some of my favorites that I have harvested till now.
When I was in California last year, I saw huge fields of cotton candy grapes and moon drop grapes. They cost $3-4 per pound here, but only cost $1.50 per pound in the Los Angeles Chinatown….
My wife likes the cotton candy grapes but I’m not a fan
I prefer the candy snaps grapes. we get them from Costco. while the grape size is on the smaller side, I like that they are crisp, and not only sweet, but with some complexity with tannins.
I wonder how they will compare with the 3 Gurney’s seedless muscadines I will plant this spring.
