I still have a huge suitcase of incandescent Christmas lights. But that is a side issue, Altus and Mighty Fine were two muscadines I ordered from Ison’s a few months ago. They are now in the ground here at my house. As many of you are seeing in the forecast, severe cold and snow/ice are due this weekend.
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Thrift stores.
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Could be looking at up to 6 consecutive days with lows under 10F depending on which part of the mid-Atlantic you’re in. Guess i’ll really get to see what Paulk is made of. If my little potted Darlene survives this - i’ll finally plant it in the ground and declare it the Queen of Hardiness.
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I was worried about lows when I put in my muscadines but they have survived several trips to around 0F. My Black Beauty died this last winter from what I think was a cold snap in the spring, and thats the only variety that had any issues.
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My location has several days with lows of 18-20f predicted for about 1.5 weeks. I’m a little concerned about how my recently planted Oh Yes will handle this weather. I’ll probably just see how it does without covering or extra protection. I think it will be okay but we shall see.
Looks like the group order I’ve been reading about will escape most of the cold weather.
Yes, the group order won’t arrive till spring - but it’s definitely making me think about where to plant them so they’re in a more protected/ easier to protect spot! I’m slated for at least a week where the highs are in the teens and 20s and the lows are negative numbers. At least its not sudden - everything has had plenty of time to go dormant.
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Hope everyone’s safe and warm with this storm. Supposed to hit us tomorrow evenign and then some low teens into next week.
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I grew isons muscadine 2 years…
Took it out a few weeks back.. .making room for a new Oh Yes… ordered from Gurneys.
I am giving the isons vine back to the one that gave it to me.
It is a very good muscadine… but the seeds and tuf skins don’t appeal at all to my wife and kids and grandkid.
Hopefully Oh Yes makes all happy.
I am also adding a razzmatazz this spring.
TNHunter
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The night time temps have been lower and for several days at my location. I don’t remember it recently being this cold. In a few weeks I will start to see how well my muscadines do. I anticipate them all being okay. Many of you live north of me and have had more severe weather. Hope you can report back with good news on survival rates.
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I don’t anticipate any damage to my muscadine vines. The temps only got down to about 8 degrees while the roots were under about a 4" layer of ice which should have provided insulation to a large extent. Actually in each of the past two winters it got colder to about 0 degrees. The vines did fine.
In areas in the north where the temps got down to about -10 there could be problems with survival.
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Its dropped to sub 10 at night here almost every night for two weeks now. Tomorrow the high is 15 with lows of 4 all weekend. My location tends to run a couple degrees cooler than forecast. Our fortunes change beginning Monday with temps rising to the 40s. Hopefully the ice layer on the ground has protected my vines.
I’ve never heard of seedless muscadines! I have sweet jenny, supreme, and some wild ones on the fence line. How does the flavor compare to those if anyone has had experience with them all?
Is this the end of my Oh My!? It died back to the root last year also. Paulk looks great and produced amazing last year. Same age as this vine.
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If it died back to the roots last year, and suffered severe trunk splitting and possibly die back this year as well, that does indeed suggest your area is colder than optimum for the variety without taking special measures like burying the trunk for the winter, or something like that.
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That’s what my vines that have died from cold injury tend to look like.
Are you in in Washington County MD? What’s your elevation? I’m in Baltimore County and plan on putting Oh My in the ground this Spring. I’ve been worried it won’t be cold hardy enough. Hoping you are borderline 6B/7A.
My Paulk has been a great performer too. Extremely vigorous.
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I’m looking forward to finally getting seedless crossed with more cold tolerant muscadines. It would be nice to have a muscadine that could handle -10F temps.
If you can get a bag of wood shavings and apply a 6 or 8 inch thick layer around the stem of a muscadine, it will be much more likely to grow back from cold killing the vine.
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I am in Western NC z7b. Our lowest temp was a little over a week ago at 7f.
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Oh wow yeah we got a little bit lower than that here
I was thrown off by SoMt. We have a South Mountain range in western Maryland.
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I think that cracking can also be due to extreme temperature fluctuations (sun in daytime warming the bark up, then at night it cools down a lot). Whitewashing the trunk should help. In my experience, many cracks will heal again, but you will want to inhibit infestation by fungi. I spray mine with sulfur late winter.
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