If you want to grow muscadines, I would recommend Darlene, Sweet Jenny, and Sugargate. Darlene and Sweet Jenny are very large and very sweet bronze. My opinion Darlene is the best bronze. Sweet Jenny not far behind. Sugargate is a black that tastes like a bronze. Very sweet, but medium size. Dearing is an older variety, but is my sweetest. If Dearing was not so small, it would be my favorite. First year fruit on Dearing was nothing special. Subsequent fruiting is superb…little globes of sugar. I am in southeast TX and most of the bunch grapes don’t make 3 months in my yard (pierce disease). The only bunch grape I grow is Victoria Red. It is very good considering it is the only sweet one that we can grow. There are other bunch grapes that can be grown here, but none that sweetens like Victoria Red. The others are good for wine and/or jelly, but not fresh eating. Victoria Red is also @ 80% seedless. It is good, but I wouldn’t trade my muscadines for it. I currently grow or grew many other muscadines, but last year gave most of my blacks to a family member. I only fresh eat them now and they were producing way too many grapes for fresh eating. Only kept the bronzes and sugargate.
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