I thought it might be vitis riparia. But the stems don’t look right. Definitely not muscadine.
Uhg, this is one of those things to look at almost makes one gag. What was the name for that…trypophobia!
I’m in Central NC. I have a true wild bronze in my yard. The fruit is somewhat small and not real sweet.
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I’ve been picking Oh My! for about 2 weeks now. Being seedless has been a game changer, I enjoy them so much more. I really like Muscadine skins and I even crunch the seeds with the seeded ones. But, seedless is so great. It’s a real sweet variety too. The fruit is sometimes a little small on mine.
I also have Oh Yes! planted and growing well. It’ll probably be two years before I can report back on them.
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My Oh Yes and Oh My have both filled the trellis in the western direction… but have a little way to go eastward.
TNHunter
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I’ve picked Lane, Summit, and others but today was the first ripe Paulk. Now that they are ripening, I’ll get more than I can eat for 2 or 3 weeks.
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My bronze muscadines vines has way too much black rot. Mummified grapes. The purple/black vines look better, just some spots on some leaves on the wild vines. Google suggest mancozeb, captan, myclobutanil and azoxystrobin. Has others encountered this in their bronze?
Picture of wild muscadines on the left and Cowart muscadines on the right. The wild grapes certainly wasn’t any less sweeter than the Cowarts, maybe just a tad sweeter. As the picture shows, the wild grapes are basically red. Everything else was about the same.
Started with the transfers of about 16 wild vine spouts and resulted with 4 female wild muscadine vines. I guess that was the right percentage.
Something that I’m not completely understanding. The part of the woods that the wild vines originally came from had an estimated 2-3 acres of these wild vine sprouts. I’ve always assumed that they got there by varmints such as raccoons spreading seeds around. If so, why did the grapes from all of my producing wild vines seem exactly the same. I know that seeds from an apple will produce various results. Wouldn’t it be the same for wild muscadines? Maybe I’m not correct on understanding how the wild sprouts got there in the first place.
I’ve even thought about about replacing the domesticated vines with the wild vines. Kind of backward thinking. Prefer the richer, more complex, “wild” flavor. 
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It’s probably not actually black rot on the fruit of your bronze muscadines. Muscadines rarely impacted to a significant degree on the fruit by black rot. It’s more likely to be ripe rot, macrophoma rot, or bitter rot in muscadines. The destruction of the fruit is just as bad though. The same conventional sprays for black rot generally will control those other types of rots as well.
To answer you question about why wild muscadines are more consistent in fruit traits than apples, the best I can say is something like this. Wild muscadines are like crossing two gray wolves. You get some variation, but a lot more similarities than differences because they are a pure species.
Crossing two apples is more like crossing two mongrel dogs from the pound. They are the same species, but they are the result of mixing up things that are artificially diverse because they have ancestors that were selected by humans for different traits for many years. Just like humans carefully developed dog breeds and mongrels mix that up and display far more variation than a wild canine would as a result.
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The bronze varieties are generally more susceptible to black rot than black varieties, with some differences (e.g in my experience, Darlene is a lot more resistant to fruit rots than Carlos and Fry. Ison recommends spraying with Captan. I spray with Merivon/ Captan and have it pretty well controlled. You have to start spraying before symptoms appear, first spray before bloom.
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2 unknown types I’m growing. I bought a self fertile bronze one from Willis Orchard 4ths ago and they sent me this black one. Started the bronze one from seed from store bought. I’ll claim it’s Scuppernong 
Seeds and skin don’t bother me much,
I’ve tried other types of grapes but they get fungal infections and bugs eat the leaves
No issues with muscadines which is nice
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Too big to be Scuppernong. Too green to be from Summit. I would guess a seedling of Tara.
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I actually think the way I took the pic is misleading. They are actually not that big. I didn’t realize they were ripening (soft) till checking. I was expecting them to be larger and I assumed they were not starting to ripen yet. Some are green and some or bronze.
I’ll look into Tara and see if this could be it. Thanks
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My Raz late March this year.
It filled my trellis over a month ago and is developing fruiting laterals now with blossom clusters as they grow.
2 of the clusters have small fruit on now and one is starting to ripen.
They are tiny.. but hey it is a go getter on wanting to fruit. Hopefully they get a little bigger next year.
Very pretty color.. hope they taste as good as they look.
TNHunter
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