Have one myself. I think it’s a great. Taste kind of like Concord.
@lordkiwi Does the other one need a pollinating partner? If so I’ve noticed Lowes and Walmart carrying muscadine.
There both listed as self-fertile. Razzamatazz would need to be since it sets perpetualy.
@Robert What dines are you growing? They do okay with your winters?
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I’ve got about 7 varieties, Isons brands with 2 classic varieties (couple tags got lost, and I no longer know what those are but known are Supreme, Isons, Carlos, and Nesbit). They have been here for a while now and no winter issues yet. I did lose my Concord over this winter though, which I found odd since muscadine didn’t have any problems. I really like muscadine. They have a wide range of flavors and I have a little nostalgia from eating wild ones as a kid.
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I planted a Oh Yes and Razz a couple weeks ago… they have some small leaves out now.
We are supposed to get 21F tonight.
I am going to cover them this evening.
Some of the comfery I planted a few weeks back is up with 6 inch of growth already… hopefully it will come back after this hard frosting.
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Until this year I have pruned back my muscadines with a hand type device which worked well but it takes a while to do it and my wrist/arms get tired (probably means that I need to do more exercise). I splurged a little this year and bought a battery hand type pruner that will cut up to 1”. If you have a lot of pruning to do this device can save a considerable amount of time. I’m spoiled now and I also cut down an American hazel that had a huge amount of sprouts.
I don’t think that is spoiled at all! Mayhaps a little fancy, but not spoiled! I also wouldn’t say I was ‘needing more exercise’ because if you have a lot of trimming and cutting to do I think anyone would get tired.
I get tired especially fast.
One: because tennis elbow and carpal tunnel.
Two: I definitely need more exercise!
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Oh Yes is putting on a few leaves now and I’m going to start it growing up to the wire. My plans are to use the Ison’s method 13-13-13 and Calcium Nitrate to get the vine up and down the wire as fast as possible. I’ve used this method several times with good success.
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Starting to look like the 10 day long cold snap here with lows between 1 and 10 degrees really fried my Paulk muscadine. Enough signs of life that I think it might bounce back. I’ll see in a couple weeks.
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be careful, i know 3 seperate people who have cut off their fingers with electric hand pruners
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I might get me a pair of those steel gloves. One miss cut and a finger could easily be cut off. For the time being I’m going to attempt to keep my opposite hand in my pocket.
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I believe I’ve read that muscadines naturally shed off bark as the vines thicken. This is the first year I’m seeing huge strips just falling off the main stem of my two main vines and it looks like something I would think was trouble. But it is okay and expected, correct?
The vines appear to be waking up just like normal withe the buds toward the end of the vines greening and getting close to unfurling.
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Yes, that is normal bark shedding for a muscadine vine.
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Yes the peeling is just what they do. No problem.
My vines going into the 4 th year look just like yours. First year they are doing this. I scratched a little with my fingernail and it was green cambium under there, so I did not worry about it.
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I have 12 vines and used most of the grapes last year (third and some in the second year) to make wine. A rose, using Carlos and a little Ison, and two batches reds, using Noble and Ison.
85 bottles, happy with the quality, especially the rose is nice.
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Cold killed all the spurs on Paulk. No budding anywhere. Cordons are still green under bark. Should I leave the cordons on the wire or cut it back and let it try to come back from below?
Guess who survived and is leafing out though? Forgotten Darlene in her little 7 gallon bag for the fourth year or whatever. I giver her supplemental water maybe 3 times in the summer. Of course she’s never had to undergo the stress of a heavy bearing season but remarkable nonetheless given Lane, Black Beauty and Paulk have all sustained or succumbed to cold injury in the ground.
It probably has some dormant buds hiding high up so I would let the plant figure it out on its own. If it has no such buds it will sprout from the roots in any case.
I didn’t get any damage on grapes and only super minor damage on kiwis. You are a bit colder where you are it sounds like.
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Thanks Scott. I’ll let it sit and see what pushes out.
You and I are in pretty close proximity. But I am in a rather steep section of a river valley, close to the bottom. So i’m certain I experience cold air pooling that brings me lower night time lows. I had a light frost this morning.
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