Oh Yes about 2.5’
Oh My is looking good. The buds are getting bigger so it wont be long before the open.
Oh My is looking good. The buds are getting bigger so it wont be long before the open.
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Nice! Y’all are really taking great care of your seedless.
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Another muscadine update this week.
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I may have drowned my potted up bareroot Lane, a bit, until it’s unlikely to grow anymore. I blame the cheapo potting mix, but also my incompetence. 
Hall is planted and doing fine.. RubyCrisp is ready to get planted and has grown like crazy still in a pot.
In my tradition of ordering a different species of grape to replace one of the ones I killed, I ordered two bunch grape replacements. When one of those dies, surely by natural causes, I’ll get a black/purple muscadine again, probably. 
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Self-fertile athough from the picture I believe most of the stamens have fallen off.
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@Auburn
Have you ever heard in Alabama of wild muscadines being referred to as “possum grapes”?
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In Florida the wild possums think that cultivated muscardines are also possum grapes.
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Nope! Possum grapes are one of the wild species of grape that grows all over this area. Muscadines are always referred to as muscadines or scuppernongs.
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“possum grape” is basically a made up name people use to refer to pretty much any wild grape when they don’t know what it’s actually called. That’s why it’s pretty useless as a name. I have heard people refer to vitis aestivalis, cinerea, vulpina, and occasionally, even muscadine, as possum grapes. If you want people to actually be able to know what you’re referring to when it comes to wild grapes, there is no real substitute for the scientific name.
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Don’t forget Vitis riparia.
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Yes
They are just wet
AI may be calling all vines in the woods “possum grapes”.
I need to take a second look at a vine that I spotted while turkey hunting back in the spring. It just looked different from the vines that I had transplanted earlier. Need to see if it has branched (forked) or unbranched tendrils. The blooms looked different. The leaves look all the same to me.
But oddly enough I have a concord vine that has branched tendrils. All my domesticated muscadine varieties have unbranched tendrils.
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Look up leaves and bark of Vitis riparia. It looks like muscadine leaves with bunch grape like bark.
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With so many different names no wonder why AI is calling it “possum grape”
Other Names
Common Names: Riverbank Grape, Wild Grape
Scientific Names: Vitis riparia, Vitis columbina, Vitis concolor, Vitis cordifolia, Vitis cordifolia var. riparia, Vitis dimidiata, Vitis illinoensis, Vitis incisa, Vitis montana
GBIF Accepted Name: Vitis riparia
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Copied and pasted from Gurney’s description of Oh Yes. Somehow I missed seeing the crunchy and tender part of the description earlier on. This is a characteristic that I like in some of the seeded varieties.
fully edible skin that is both crunchy and tender
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Why is Gurney’s the only nursery that Oh Yes and Oh My can be purchased?
I checked the local garden center just the other day and all they had was Carlos, Scuppernong, and Cowart which I already have.
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Gurneys went out on a limb a couple of years ago and bought an exclusive distribution agreement with the guy who developed seedless muscadines. In exchange, they get to charge a fairly high price for a relatively niche fruit.
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