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Post by greybeard on Aug 17, 2019 21:04:49 GMT -6
Sweet and juicy these are. About 3 gallons. Pulled them a few days before full maturity because it's so hot and I didn't want the birds and squirrels to find them. I should get about 6-7 pints of jelly from these. (they are a type of muscadine)  |
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Post by jehosofat on Aug 17, 2019 21:09:57 GMT -6
I love those things, suck em out of the skin and swallow the whole thing, seeds and all.
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Post by bulltrader on Aug 17, 2019 21:47:51 GMT -6
Do you grow them or are they wild?
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Post by greybeard on Aug 17, 2019 22:23:03 GMT -6
They grow wild all over the South, but a neighbor brought me a rooted cutting about 4 years ago and I planted it under an ornamental wooden rail fence in the front of my yard. This is the first year I did absolutley nothing to it. Nature's rain, no fretilize, no mulching and that vine really produced. They love full sun. You can see the vine along the fence next to the road.  (This was during winter of 2017..the dog to the right of the leafless vine was in the 'wheelchair'I made for him..he had been run over by a vehicle and lost use of his whole back end. He learned to use his legs again after a couple of weeks, but a couple months later, lost most of his blood out his rear end and didn't survive) Only other pics I have of the scuppernong vine, it's either almost under water or covered with snow.  upload image (Livin here ain't fer wimps) |
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Post by highgrit on Aug 18, 2019 5:55:55 GMT -6
I like them chilled really cold, one of my favorite fruits.
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Post by M-5 on Aug 18, 2019 6:36:39 GMT -6
Wild ones here are black and about 1/2 that size. In the fall when I set hooks I look for vines over the river where they are dropping. Catfish love them .
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Post by chuckie on Aug 18, 2019 20:21:19 GMT -6
The farmer across the road from my house sprayed his field when the winds were blowing unbearably strong. He had the booms raises high and the drift covered my front and back yard, to out behind the barn. He stunted everything in the yard and burned all the leaves back and the trees still have tiny burnt leaves. In this process, he ruined my muscadine vines and there isn't any fruit. My oak trees do not have acorns nor will my pecan trees have any nuts on them. I have not talked to him about it yet, but will get with him before he sprays next spring.
It really made me sick as I lost one tree that I had planted last year and one of my shrubs.
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Post by bulltrader on Aug 18, 2019 20:35:51 GMT -6
The farmer across the road from my house sprayed his field when the winds were blowing unbearably strong. He had the booms raises high and the drift covered my front and back yard, to out behind the barn. He stunted everything in the yard and burned all the leaves back and the trees still have tiny burnt leaves. In this process, he ruined my muscadine vines and there isn't any fruit. My oak trees do not have acorns nor will my pecan trees have any nuts on them. I have not talked to him about it yet, but will get with him before he sprays next spring. It really made me sick as I lost one tree that I had planted last year and one of my shrubs. You have a case of misuse if you want to pursue it. Extension Service here follows up on it. |
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Post by greybeard on Aug 18, 2019 21:30:49 GMT -6
a butt whuppin is in order if it was that much overspray and drift.
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Post by highgrit on Aug 19, 2019 6:31:18 GMT -6
The farmer across the road from my house sprayed his field when the winds were blowing unbearably strong. He had the booms raises high and the drift covered my front and back yard, to out behind the barn. He stunted everything in the yard and burned all the leaves back and the trees still have tiny burnt leaves. In this process, he ruined my muscadine vines and there isn't any fruit. My oak trees do not have acorns nor will my pecan trees have any nuts on them. I have not talked to him about it yet, but will get with him before he sprays next spring. It really made me sick as I lost one tree that I had planted last year and one of my shrubs. You have a case of misuse if you want to pursue it. Extension Service here follows up on it. I was spraying fence lines with a hand wand and hurt my neighbors Leyland cypress trees, hopefully they won't die. He didn't mind and never noticed till I showed him, but it was definitely a wake up call for me. |
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Post by chuckie on Aug 19, 2019 6:49:00 GMT -6
I will not turn him in this time, but if he does it again, I will. My house sits to the North of his field, and in the spring, the winds blow from the South-Southwest, right towards my house. I think I heard of someone getting fined $20,000 last year, and I don't want to hurt him that bad. But after I talk to him about it, I am expecting him to pay more attention to what he is doing. I wondered if his younger son sprayed and did not pay attention to what was going on as this guy is not a bad fellow and doesn't cause any problems for others. But that talk is definitely coming before the Spring comes next year. My Bur Oaks usually have a leaf that is 10'12" long. The leaves are just a few inches long this year and the trees look bad. I try to get the acorns from the Bur Oaks and see which ones are good and sprout them and plant them around on other properties. Then I give a lot of the acorns away as the deer and turkeys are drawn to them. Squirrels too. The Dicamba is really hard on a yard.
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