About 2 months ago I was on the phone with a muscadine grower in South Carolina. He had a very good crop the fall of 2018, but his vines had not put out this spring. The varieties he had planted are vigorous plants and rarely over-crop, so I was perplexed on why his vines failed […]

Are your vines producing too much fruit, yes there is such a thing. On ideal bloom conditions or on some varieties of muscadines the vines can over crop or over produce themselves. In my opinion I believe the ideal fruit load is around 60 pounds per vine, if your vine has more fruit than this […]

The vineyard floor consists of the area that is on the ground directly under the main arm of the vine and has a width of about 24 inches. Muscadines have shallow roots that are typically 8-12 inches below ground level and run parallel to the top wire about 5 feet on either side of the […]

African Queen Muscadine If you have room for one more plant in your vineyard I would recommend planting the African Queen. It is one of our releases that works well for the home gardner. It is a female variety that ripens mid season, a vigorous grower, as well as a consistent producer. At the time […]

Obviously muscadines are way up the list of my favorite fruits, but there is one fruit tree that I love and I believe you will love them too. Asian Pears are a fantastic fruit and they are some of the sweetest pears you will ever eat in your life time. The first time I tried […]

Fry is a variety that was released in 1972 by Dr B.O. Fry. In all regards the release of this variety was a Game Changer. Prior to Fry there was no commercial fresh fruit market for muscadines, all of the varieties before Fry were small in size, disease issues were a concern, or either the […]

Variety Spotlight – “Sugargate” Sugargate is an early ripening black female that we released here at our nursery. Before Sugargate the only large black fruited muscadine was the Jumbo. Jumbo is a very large fruit but it ripened late in the season and in my opinion had to be almost dead ripe before it was sweet. […]

This is a question we are often asked and hopefully this information will guide you on when the best time to prune is. In the 1970’s through the early 80’s the accepted time to prune would be once the vines were dormant around Thanksgiving and try and finish pruning by early January. The commercial muscadine […]

This is the second week this winter that much of the Southeast is having winter temperatures that are below our normal averages. We have seen snow in unusual places, we have seen days when the temperature doesn’t get above 32, and we are only at January 15th. Muscadines are a tough plant, they are native […]