It was good of you to share with the folks around there's so many people out there that make things all about them .The old ways are the best ways! To care about our friends and neighbors can't beat it.
This is sooo exciting. Growing up in Fl my folks had an archway full of vines and every year around Valentine's Day, my folks would prune really heavy and by June, it had all grown back and then some. This would've made a great Shedwars teaching video
Yep. All mine are finished except for a few that put on a 2nd crop that probably won't ripen. I'm loving this weather right now. I can get things done all day long with these temperatures. Just got a freeze dryer in yesterday so we will be playing with that for a while. 1200# of beef is ready to be picked up authentic processor. Our cornish cross chicks have struggled. We've had about a 30% death rate so far. I have no idea what is happening but it's just part of raising animals I guess. We used to plant muscadines in an arbor. 4 posts in a square with wires connecting them and running diagonally as well. 4 vines and let them get 5-6 feet high so we could walk under the arbor and pick in the shade. I think I'm going to do that this year just for old time sake.
Question brother if you don't mind, love all the information you're providing-huge help to us, we just got our posts in the ground and are getting ready to set out our 1st 4 plants from isons! We're excited to get some grapes started, question is we plan to pile some dirt around the stem until it starts to warm up some(ph6.5 we're in eastern NC), do you do any extra watering at this point or wait until the ground starts to warm up?
Great video and update Shane. I’m so ready to plant mine but think it’s still two years out financially. Thanks for sharing and hope you and Kim have a blessed weekend.
Ison's is your best bet. If I was going to spend all the effort and money to put the trellis in, I would want to know that the type of muscadines is true to type. Once you get some, you can grow more from cuttings or air layering.
They are very easy to propagate from existing vines. I'll take a runner and run it through a clear 2 liter bottle with potting soil inside. In the winter you can cut the vine and plant it. I've had 100% success this way with keeping some of my ancestors vines going. My father's name was Mack so we call his favorite a Mackscadine. It's a large scuppernong but I have no clue what variety.
A muscadine seed will not be the muscadine that it came out of. They can revert back generations. You never know what it will be or if it will bear fruit.
Great to hear you had a productive year. I have a question for you Shane. Some of my vines didn’t make it down both sides 10’ will they pick up speed the 2nd year next year. I’m guessing the main vine will get thicker as the years go by. I feel like I didn’t achieve the goal by the vines not growing 10’ in both directions. I really enjoy all videos Shane. Thank you
We've had problems like that as well. Don't sweat it untill the next year, then rethink changing them out. I have a theory that some plants are just more vigorous than others. We have some that grown way past the 10' and some that just want move and are going to replace this year
