Muscadine pollination

If I were to plant a female muscadine would the wild vines in the woods be a suitable pollinator or do I need to order a self pollinating variety?

P.S. The wild ones are everywhere in my woods but never produce fruit because of the deep shade.

I would play it self and plant a self pollinating variety. Many of the wild ones are bullace which never bear.

I just grew some vines from seeds and never thought about pollinating. There's a bunch of wild ones around here and I get fruit ever year so I wouldn't bother with a complicated plan.

Prune up a couple of wild ones, I wouldn't be surprised if they do fruit. We had a bunch of wild ones at the corner of the road I live on and you couldn't see around them so someone trimmed them up. Never saw fruit on them but the year after they were trimmed way back, they fruited like crazy. They weren't in a sunny spot either.

I was considering the "Jumbo" variety from this website. It said some get as large as golfballs!

http://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/MuscadineGrapes.htm

isons is good for muscadines too.

Never heard of muscadine grapes until my supermarket had them here at $4 per pack. I bought them and man were they delicious. Such mouth watering juice but I couldn't eat the skin as it was very tough. Can they be grown in my climate?

Tplant I read in the American Gardener that a new variety named "Eudora"was bred by Steven Stringer of the USDA Agricultural Research Service at Poplarville MS
Among his breeding goals are higher yields,better flavor,thinner skins,firmer and juicier flesh and no seeds
.He also aims to increase the muscadines already substantial levels of phenols that act as antioxidants.as well as anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting compounds that promote cardiovascular health.
It will be released in a joint release with the University of Florida.
Has anyone grafted table grapes unto muscadine root stock to make them[the table grapes] resistant to Pearce's disease.

Hemental ---- Thanks for the update. I didn't realize the health benefit derived from these delicious grapes. When the hybrids arrive I know I will be one of their best consumers. My health is not 100% and I do take anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting drugs occasionally.

Can anyone tell me the correct method to prune muscadine vines? I have a great wild vine, in full sun that I built supports for and picked 4 gallons of fruit from this fall.

http://www.smallfruits.org/Muscadines/production/MuscadineGro/sec19.htm

Escambia... My yard filled with the wild one s too and nary a fruit til I prunned a huge vine back that wrapped itself all in my tree. I wonder if the pruning doesn't change some of the growth hormone patterns in them to get them to finally fruit.

TPlant. I never eat the skins. They not only tough, but to me leave a bitter taste in your mouth. They like eating boiled peanuts, pop the inside into your mouth and pitch the skins.

Those grapes are truly delicious! I buy so many that my family thinks "I'm over the hill" if you know what I mean?

LOL Tplant. You'd g crazy at the Muscadine farm in Beaureguard, Al. They have over 27 varietie s of muscadines. Purple ones, green ones. Really sweet, to not so sweet.

I have happy sampled through his vines. They are addicting. Once ya start ya don't want to stop. he gives ya a milk jug with the top cut off and you go pick your own and you can mix or match any of the varieties. Think it about 6 or 7 bucks for a full jug now, but not any more expensive than buying a handful of candybars and not as nutritional.

Escambia... I would follow Farmerdills advice and plant some selfers and some non selfing put them near the selfers. That way you would have some fruits for your labors.

Pam is an excellent cultivar. If you want some other excellent cultivars that good for down here, write over to Dr. Dozier at Auburn University. He excellent for information and does hyrbidizing of them.

Starlight, it's funny you mention that about the skins. When I was a kid I used to shoot the inner seedy part out on the ground and eat the skins only. LOL I think the problem here is that twenty years ago the vines got a full days sun, but now there are mature trees everywhere and they get half a days sun at best.

If you ever travel I-65 through Baldwin county you should stop by Perdido Vineyards and get yourself some Muscadine wine. They have the white "Scuppernong" wine too.

You guys are really fortuneate to be in the vicinity but then just as well I'm not as I'd go broke!