I like to chew on it a bit to get more of that “spicy” taste, but then spit it out usually.
It’s under patent until 2031 so probably they have exclusive licenses and limit their availability. Here’s the patent:
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It is licensed exclusively to big table grape producers. While I’m not recommending anyone try this with restricted varieties, grape rachises can be rooted and occasionally will have a vegetative bud present, 
. Most rachises will not have any buds, and grapes don’t produce adventitious buds, so only works if a bud is present.
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Its a grape with a leather thick skin. They have Foxy ness similar to concords but it varies by cultivar. They will pop out of the skin when eaten but I Peffer to eat the skin. There not many seedless cultivars available to my knowledge.
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Good to know! If anyone were to try this, definitely don’t post about it! IFG is pretty clear on their website about their aggressive enforcement, so I would assume their law firms have first-year associates or law students whose job it is to regularly search online for people who post about things like that:
The people who own all the candy grapes like cotton candy, sweet heart etc. have all been very protective of the patent. Also in my experience by the time you get the vines nothing seems to root. They are very good making them not root in other words. Cotton candy grapes are too sweet in my experience anyway. They make me gag and if I eat too many throw up. The USDA recommends only eating 1 cup of grapes. I am sure with candy grapes it is even less.
Does the usda say that because of the sugar content
While not America this is a article on grapes from the Australian Institute of food safety. Basically grapes have a lot of fructose and tannins which can cause issues if you eat too many grapes. Sugars are built different in different kinds of fruit from what I did in my research of why I had issues with grapes. Here is their article https://www.foodsafety.com.au/blog/top-surprising-foods-that-might-be-making-you-sick
The tannins (presumably) in muscadine skins can make your lips tingle/burn…can be a little annoying.
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Is there a limit on sour cherries
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I have not read up on sour cherries. Only fruit I have read \up on is grapes. Only reason I looked up grapes is because it seemed like I could eat normal grapes fine and then candy grapes I had a reaction to. Heck even candy grapes it seemed to be a off and on reaction to them.
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Yeah, sometimes when I eat a bunch of grapes I get nauseous for a minute or two didn’t know why, but now I know. I still love grapes but unfortunately there is a limit
Fruits vs vegetables
- Fruit
- Vegetables
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I remember back when people were doing you have to choose either or option the fruit vs vegetables came up in various ways very often. It was a pretty consistent answer of 85% saying fruit. Fruits just taste better than vegetables. There is no way around taste. If you are a health nut and just thinking about the nutrition vs calorie intake is the only reason you would pick vegetables. The veggies in my diet are asparagus, broccoli, corn, zucchini in zucchini bread, butternut squash with brown sugar and brussel sprouts. 2 of those are with added sugar/baked and most of the rest are rarely eaten. Meanwhile my diet of fruit contains at least some of the fallowing: cherries, peaches, pears, apples, oranges, mandarins, blackberries, raspberries or grapes.
And two of those veggies are technically fruit! (the two squashes)
And one is a grain (corn)
I could also add that the reason I got into growing trees was the yield of fruit trees vs growing vegetables and the fact I enjoy them more. I started out growing vegetables. I realized they needed a lot of space and even expensive vegetables would not yield much per cost unless we are talking about asparagus. Asparagus is cheap as a plant, you plant it once and it grows while being expensive just like at the grocery store. What I was looking for was something that would produce very pretty flowers but also produce fruit of extreme value that I can enjoy eating even if it is something I can buy at the grocery store. That is why I have so many apples and pears. Apples and pears are low maintenance here, taste amazing and store well. By the time I delicate the area of 10 feet to get 10 squash I can delicate the area to apples and get bushels of fruit of it is say a apple.
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I mean that should tell you even more when it comes to fruit vs veggies. That means vegetables are hardly in my diet at all.
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By weight I eat more veggies than fruit. Mostly carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, and radish raw. Onions, spinach, and broccoli cooked. Fruits taste better but I love the raw veggies. And I’ve had the same waistline for 60 years.
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I 100% agree the same thing happened to me I planted my first cherry with a bunch of tomatoes and zucchini, I realized it wasn’t worth so I planted another cherry, will see how productive that tree is
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Stark Bros has a average yield per fruit guild on how much certain trees will yield. Of course there is many factors that go into it. For example a late or early freeze may zap all fruit for that year or other years there may be a bumper crop. Then we are not even going into things like alternate bearing trees. According to the guild a dwarf tree can go as low on average as 15 quarts and goes up to 20 while a standard sweet cherry tree can yield up to 75 quarts or 3 bushels and be as low as 60 quarts. Of course we are talking about the difference of a 6 foot tree and a 40 foot tree though. Apples seem to be the golden cow for fruit yield according to the guild with a dwarf creating 1-4 bushels of apples and a standard creating 10-20 bushels of apples. Here is a link to the article Estimated Yield for Fruit Trees - Stark Bro's
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I agree with the list only if they don’t get any diseases which seems to be my bad luck, used to be not on high alert but now on extremely high alert virus, bacteria, fungi, pretty much anything that looks abnormal, I need those cherries to survive.