I forgot to post this a couple days ago…
Carlos muscadine starting to grow this spring!
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Razzmatazz a couple days ago.
My Oh Yes is a little taller.
My Oh My that split.. I ended up cutting it off just below that split.. it has a little growth starting now. So.. I will be training Oh My, Oh Yes and Razzmatazz this year.
TNHunter
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Scored a Golden Delight from Bottom’s last week. Been wanting to get this variety for 4 years. Hope to have a video out on it in the near future.
Here’s the details from Dr. Connor and myself at UGA test vineyard.
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got my 3 seedless gurney’s (oh my, oh yes, and razzmatazz) through the group order yesterday
should I trim them back to a single central leader at planting, or should I wait for a mew months after planting for them to get established?
Ison’s have a muscadine planting video on youtube I found, but the vine they are planting is still dormant and much longer.
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You still have a long growing season ahead. I would still follow Isons video. Getting a little later start means the root system will take a little longer to get established and in hotter weather. They will need more water than planting during the dormant season. If they are bare root it might be best to start them in a container at least for awhile. You can slowly introduce them to your total outside invironment.
Took this picture yesterday. It has been so warm here in the PNW! It is feeling like summer this weekend.
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I just picked up mine today also. They are leafed out and awake aside from any die back I would not cut them back this season.
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I would cut back to single strongest leader and train up and along the wire. If you have good fertility, then you should get them close to going 10 feet in both directions im the first season. I actually think that Ison’s instructional video saying to prune back to single leader at planting is not the right way to do it and contradicts what Ison says in other places: namely, not to prune till the strong frosts are over. I don’t prune my young vines at time of planting, but wait till early spring. This preserves energy and antifreeze compounds to enable the young plant to make it through the winter, and you can see which shoot is still alive in early spring.
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I’ve been doing the fig shuffle with my three vines for two or three weeks now. It has stopped dropping below 40F, but I don’t want rabbits to eat them overnight.
RubyCrisp on the left (came potted up and starting to wake up), Hall on the right.
And a bad picture of Lane. It’s supposed to be the lowest vigor of the three. I got them from Bottoms Nursery like a month ago. Huge mop head of roots on the Hall and smaller one on the Lane which were both bareroot.
I was thinking of training the longest/most vigorous vine up and tipping the others. Waiting until dormancy early next Spring to do any hard cuts. I’m going to plant two in the fenced in tree area and the other will go on the back patio and grow up my cheapo trellis ‘L’ (the bottom left corner would be on the top right and the top of the ‘L’ would be facing South). I gave up explaining and MSPainted:
The hopeful/optimistic theory is the birds will leave green/bronze grapes alone more than they will red/purple/black ones. And they’re closer to the house with more foot traffic than the fenced in tree area
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so that is 2 votes for cutting them to a single leader (@Auburn and @folkert) and 1 for not (@lordkiwi)
they came potted, so I’m trying to acclimate them a bit first, then I will cut them back to a single leader when planting.
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Good luck with your vines.
Mike, for the vines I received, I will tip the green growth leaving only one to grow into a longer vine. This keeps the energy from the leaves available to the plant. Later, after they have rooted and grown a bit, I will remove the unwanted stems. These vines are probably propagated under mist which means they need to be handled a bit different than a 2 year vine such as Ison’s sells.
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This might sound crazy, but we were able to track down Majesty and Supreme 
From everything I’ve heard, these are two of the most wanted muscadines out there right now. We just got them in the ground this spring. Stay tuned, as there’s a good chance we have another 3 that are hard to find, not a bad top 5 all in a single season!
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They’re the two largest I think? Both female though?
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Yes, both are female, probably considered the largest blacks that I have seen. Saw several unreleased bronze at the UGA Tifton test vineyard in 2024 that were massive. Female doesn’t worry me as I have plenty of other vines around.
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I had a female from Ison in 1988 that was named “Big Girl”. It produced grapes 1.5 inches diameter. Unfortunately, it had several flaws and was never officially released.
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