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Muscadine Grapes
The Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 shipping season is over. We are now taking orders for Fall 2009.
Thank you all so much for a super shipping season!
These spicy-sweet thick-skinned grapes are an old Southern favorite and are found growing wild throughout the lower South. They thrive with little care, and the vines can remain productive for 100 years! Modern breeding has brought us a wonderful range of varieties: wine grapes for the home vintner and jelly maker, plus delicious fresh-eating varieties, some as large as golf balls!
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Pollinating Muscadine Grapes
Choose at least one
self-pollinating grape to pollinate up to four
females, or if you want only one, choose a self-pollinating variety. |
Muscadine Varieties (Vitus rotundiflora)
FEMALES-- NEED POLLINATION
BLACK BEAUTY By far one of the sweetest grapes. Large, 1 1/4 inch fruits are black-skinned and juicy. Excellent disease resistance. Ripens early to mid-September. Needs pollination. Patent #7592. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
BLACK FRY Beautiful, big 1 1/4 inch dusty black fruit. Ripens mid to late September. Good fresh or for jelly. Needs pollination. Patent #5824. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
FLORIDA FRY Florida's answer for the Fry grape's problem with summer dieback. Bears heavy crops of large bronze grapes. Very sweet, excellent for fresh eating. Zones 8-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
JUMBO The name says it all.
A huge black grape with 15% sugar from an especially
vigorous vine. Ripens September into October. Needs pollination. Zones
7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SCUPPERNONG Excellent flavor, great production. 17% sugar.
Small clusters of bronze fruit. Ripens mid-season. Zones 7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SUMMIT Thought by many to be better than Fry as
a commercial grape. Red-bronze fruit is 1 inch in diameter.
20% sugar content, Ripens early September. Excellent fresh
eating grape. Needs pollination. Zones 7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SWEET JENNY Whopper-sized bronze fruits are 1
1/2 inches in diameter. Extremely high sugar content of
23%. Ripens mid-season in Sept. Needs pollination. Zones
7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SELF-POLLINATING
ALACHUA Premier fresh eating and wine grape.
Medium size black grape is sweet and juicy. Excellent production. Ripe Sept. - Oct. Zones 7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
CARLOS One of our best pollinator grapes. Produces lots
of small, 1/2 inch bronze fruit. Excellent for jelly and wines.
Self-fertile. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
COWART Excellent pollinator grape, maybe even the best. Big production of large black fruit. Great for for juices and jellies. Ripens late September. Self-fertile. Zones 7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
GRANNY VAL If you want high yield this is the one. The heaviest producing variety, it yields multitudes of high quality bronze fruit.
Ripe at mid- late Sept. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
NESBIT A black fruited variety from North Carolina.
Ripens over a month-long period. Flavor is a delicious
Concord flavor with a spicy fox-grape twist. Zones 7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
NOBLE Florida red wine grape. Makes beautiful dry red wine.
Blend with Southland for a pink chablis, very productive. Very limited availability. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SOUTHERN HOME Excellent red wine grape if you're inclined.
Hybrid of a muscadine and a bunch grape. Beautiful, oak-shaped leaves. Fruit is almost black.
Patent #9454. Zones 7-9A. $13.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SOUTHLAND Excellent pollinator grape for the
females. Lots of small, 1/2 inch, black fruit. Excellent fresh or
for juices and jellies. Ripens mid-September. Self-fertile. Zones
7-10. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
SUNRISE Our own find. This variety is very large, up to
1 inch in diameter. Bronze color with a crispy, almost
bunch-grape flavor. Skins are thin. Ripens in late August. Self-fertile.
Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
TARA
Large bronze skinned variety with a spicy sweet flavor. Great fresh or juiced out. Good disease resistance.
Ripe early Oct. Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal (2-3ft).
TRIUMPH Pinky-bronze grapes are very large, growing in large clusters, and ripen early.
Good flavor, good yields, dry stem scar, and good vigor and disease resistance. Sugar content
is 17-18%. Great fresh-eating or wine grape. Excellent pollinator for other females. Self-fertile.
Zones 7-9A. $11.99 2 gal. (2-3ft).
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Muscadine Grapes and Trellising
One arm, two arm, horizontal versus overhead arbor. Oh my gosh, which one shall we do?? The basic story is you do need to train and prune grapes and kiwis to get them to fruit. Overhead arbors are beautiful additions to the orchard and offer a wonderful place to sit and rest and enjoy the view. They're a little more work to set up and prune, but well worth the effort.
The single wire trellis is the simplest method, and the one most used by the commercial grower. Two and three wire horizontal trellises offer great possibility for use as living fences. And last, but not least, is the tee bar trellis, which is my personal favorite. It offers me the greatest yield for the least amount of labor in pruning and is the easiest to pick. We'll provide you a great hand-out in your shipment that explains how to use these various methods. |
Just the Facts
Not sure what to do with muscadine grapes or how to grow them right? DON'T PANIC! Push the panic button and we will give you "Just the Facts" you need to successfully grow them.
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Please come to see us if you can (Wednesday to Sunday, 9:05-5:08). We are located 19 miles south of Tallahassee, just off US Highway 98, 1 mile east of the intersection with US Highway 319 (South of Crawfordville center and actually in the village of Medart). If you need further directions, feel free to call us at 1-850-926-5644 or enter 30 St. Frances St. Crawforville FL 32327 (or Just Fruits Nursery) into Google Maps ( CLICK HERE).