My favorite jelly!Wild Muscadine Jelly is my favorite and it's time in my neck of the woods.
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It didn't take long at all to gather what I needed.
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Then the work started.
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Time for sure-gel and sugar.
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Gettin' close
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All I need now is a hot biscuit (pics soon).
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I started some from cuttings I got from a buddy in NC, about half grew leaves, put them in the garage once the leaves died in the fall, planted them in the spring, they grew leaves and didn't come back. They can't take the cold I was told.@WOODIE13 What do yall call these up there? Do you have them? I asked a guy up there last time that I was up and he was like, musky what?
Wild Muscadine Jelly is my favorite and it's time in my neck of the woods.
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It didn't take long at all to gather what I needed.
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Then the work started.
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Time for sure-gel and sugar.
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Gettin' close
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All I need now is a hot biscuit (pics soon).
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We had a tame grape arbor, 10x100 ft, some awesome grapes. Right by a bunch of species of apple trees, summer to winter.We used to sit with the old folks under the shade from a decades long muscadine arbor and wear them out. Some of them were 50X50 feet. Almost always next to a peanut or soybean field.
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Maybe there's hope then. We covered them in straw in the fall
I looooooooooooove muscadine jelly. I'm going to try to make some this weekend myself. They don't grow here in the mountains naturally, but they'll grow if you plant them. A -0 spell will knock them back pretty good, but they usually come back in a year or two.
There are some cultivars that are hardier than others. I tried transplanting some wild ones from my place in SC here, and they didn't survive -10. I have a couple I bought from Ison's that are kicking after several years.Maybe there's hope then. We covered them in straw in the fall
These came from @ Fayetteville NC. It was pretty cool scoring the bottom of the vine, soaking, then planting it and watching it leaf out.There are some cultivars that are hardier than others. I tried transplanting some wild ones from my place in SC here, and they didn't survive -10. I have a couple I bought from Ison's that are kicking after several years.
Fayetteville is deep south climate. The closest to me that I have seen wild muscadines growing is Polk Co, NC, in the southern edge of the Blue Ridge mountains. I bet those are hardier than the ones from the flatlands.These came from @ Fayetteville NC. It was pretty cool scoring the bottom of the vine, soaking, then planting it and watching it leaf out.
Definitely need a heartier variety or some cuttings that stand up to cold and snow
These were the tan when ripe ones, said they were intermediate...Fayetteville is deep south.
I was referring to wild muscadines as compared to domestic muscadines.These were the tan when ripe ones, said they were intermediate...
Hate to try to plant wild grapes in GA.
I think the wild ones are the best, but there are a couple domestic strains you can't hardly tell apart from them. I think the ones that are bred to be bigger don't have as much flavor as the smaller ones the same size as the wild ones.I was referring to wild muscadines as compared to domestic muscadines.
Had both, don't grow naturally up here.I was referring to wild muscadines as compared to domestic muscadines.
Do you have fox grapes up there, or just those peas-sized possum grapes? We have both, but you don't see the fox grapes as much as we used to.Had both, don't grow naturally up here.
Now wild grapes, as you referred to, are all over here, thick.
Different terminology