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Offline Yankee11

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Muscadines
« on: September 01, 2014, 12:39:17 am »
1st picking from my Muscadine vines. 4 gallons. Thats gonna make a lot of jelly this fall.


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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2014, 01:24:15 am »
What the heck is a muscadine?  ???
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2014, 12:50:51 pm »
WOW! that's a lot! we have the golden and black ones on our property and just beginning to pick them.
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2014, 03:30:44 pm »
Without googling I'm assuming grapes?
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2014, 04:18:12 pm »
We have those Muscadine grapes here too.  They envelope large and small trees and eventually kill them.  You can't kill those vines. 

I was told that after all the grape vines died in France, they grafted their grapes to the Muscadine root stock and were off and running again.  Those are sour grapes.  ;)

Quote from: Wikipedia
...The horticulturist Thomas Munson used Texas vines to create hundreds of hybrid grapes and conducted significant research in finding root stock immune to the Phylloxera epidemic, which saved the French wine industry from total ruin...
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2014, 04:29:51 pm »
You have to eat them when they turn purple and than they are good and sweet, I love them, next  time I am around some I am going to dig the root and grow them here.

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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2014, 11:36:00 pm »
They are are a type of grape that has a musky smell and taste. They make great jelly, which is what I grow them for. Just like grapes, there the bronze and the burgundy types. I have 9 vines growing on trellises.

They grow wild in the south east.

Yes Jen, I'll send you a jar of Muscadine jelly
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2014, 11:54:02 pm »
 ;D Yippy Yippy Happy Hippy  ;D  We'll make a trade! homemade honey lotion? bourbon honey vanilla? we'll talk 
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2014, 02:11:59 pm »
There was an episode on duck dynasty where they picked muscadines. I had to google it after the show to find out what they was. We don't have anything like that around here
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2014, 05:27:54 pm »
heres a few pictures of my vines.











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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2014, 05:41:21 pm »
So interesting! are the speckles a natural part of the skin? they look delish  :)
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2014, 06:17:01 pm »
Either me or some forum members need to learn the difference in muscadines and scuppernongs.
I have been picking both for over 60 years, but I may still be in the dark about them.

Maybe I can learn something here.
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2014, 10:56:37 pm »
Quote from: iddee on September 07, 2014, 06:17:01 pm
...scuppernongs....
That is too far out there for you to make that up, but makes me wonder  ;)
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2014, 06:14:51 am »
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2014, 04:36:06 pm »
Yes Iddee, That's what I understand, they are a variety of Muscadine.

I love mowing right now. I grab a hand full from the vines as I go buy.

The grass around my vines is well manicured right now.  :)

Funny, I was calling local nurseries a couple years asking for Muscadines. The lady on the phone said hang on I'll ask. She yelled out to another lady and the other lady response was " we have Scuppernongs " the lady on the phone busted out laughing she thought the lady said "SUPERDONGS"

That was funny. Will always laugh thinking of her when I here that word.

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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2014, 05:15:17 pm »
So you put me in the marketing mode again

            Superdong Jam's and Jelly's
       Homemade by Yankee Doodle Dandy

 ;) :laugh: ;)
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2014, 05:20:16 pm »
Now that's funny.

I see another special label for the jar of jelly coming your way.
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2014, 06:00:25 pm »
 :D  Sounds good

   
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2014, 07:18:10 pm »
I will be your first customer for a jar of muscodine jelly
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Re: Muscadines
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2014, 09:56:52 pm »
With 4 gallons of berries, I should have plenty to go around. I'll keep you updated.
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