Richard

Developed for adaptability in the south and resistance to Pierce's disease, this grape is a hybrid of Muscadine and several other species. For details, see this write-up: Southern Home Cultivar | Muscadine Grape Breeding Program | Fruits | Commodities at CAES | UGA

I received a flat of 72 TC's last week to try out here in San Diego. Here they are, transplanted into quart pots and sitting underneath my dragon fruit trellises.

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Darkman

Richard,

I'm glad to see you trying these. They are on my list to pick up this Spring. NOTE I wrote the note last Fall it just hasn't happened yet. My research shows that this may be a good one for wine making here in the hot and humid Coastal Deep South. I'll have to get SBL to help me with that but I have to first get them RIGHT!

Here is some other research you might be interested in.

University of Florida News – UF grape researcher wins $2.2 million grant to create consumer-friendly muscadines

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Richard

Dennis Gray certainly deserves it. Perhaps the USDA can wake up and see that UF deserves a Germplasm Repository site for all the southern varieties of specialty fruits.

Over the past 5 years, my approach to plant acquisition has shifted FROM "searching the nation for one plant" TO "scanning availability lists from sources for unknown plants and cultivars". So for example, when new grape varieties showed up on the Agristarts availability list, I checked them out to see if any were worth trying here. Then I order immediately. Otherwise it might be gone from the availability list for quite a long time -- and this is true of all my suppliers.

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Darkman

Yes he has done a lot. The repository is needed. There are many plants that will do well here and only here.


That is an excellent idea. My problem is I don't know what I'd do with 72 or even a half tray of any variety. I just don't have the room after they grow out.

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Richard

True, although Agristarts is the only TC supplier I have. All the other sources would provide either nursery stock at wholesale or singletons at retail.

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RandyGHO

I make muscadine wine every year using a natural yeast process. It really is kind of a port since you add vodka to help stop the fermentation process. It is sweet and far superior to store bought muscadine wine which has a tendency to turn dark and have an after taste.

Muscadine jelly is much more grape tasting than grape jelly and has a beautiful color. They are very common to South Ga.

Good luck with your trails.

Randy

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Richard

Thanks Randy,

I personally grow grapes for fresh eating and preserves, although I know that some of my customers use the table grapes I sell for wine. Decades ago I developed shingles in my right optical cortex. The drugs that keep it at bay are greatly diminished by alcohol intake and thus I haven't imbibed in years!

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Darkman

Randy,

That sounds very nice. I'd be interested in your Muscadine Wine/Port recipe if you would share it.

Richard,

I'm glad that you were able to save your sight. I take Chloresterol medication. My problem is genetic and it cannot be controlled by diet. One of the "Rules" I have to live with is no Grapefruit. I have a fifteen year old seedless pink grapefruit that produce a bumpercrop of very large sweet juicy fruit every year. Go figure. I don't have as much at risk as you and I sneak a couple every year.

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Richard

Today I planted out the Southern Home grape I brought here in a 25 gallon pot 2 years ago. It was just a baby at the time, and not much bigger now with 1/4 inch caliper vines. I cut it back considerably before planting.

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Hi Richard,

My Southern Home are the most vigorous vines I have and are heavy producers of tasty but small "muscarapes" (my name for the hybrid). Now that you have then in the ground they will probably be two inches in diameter next year. The vines are extremely vigorous and will grow twenty feet easily in one year.

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AS ALWAYS IMHO AND YOUR MILEAGE MAY DIFFER!!!!!!!!

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Kentucky Bourbon - It may not solve the problem but it helps to make it tolerable!

Statistics - Data that analyst twist to support the insane opinions of those that pay them.

Richard

Here's my Southern Home Grape climbing up on its trellis post.

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