Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 03:43 PM
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 04:07 PM
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How do they taste? Do you know what species they are?
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 04:25 PM
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I picked a bunch of them one time along town road. Made a batch really good grape jelly. Those look like some really nice ones.
Mac
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 04:52 PM
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Those are many times bigger than my wild grapes and probably bigger than any of my domestic grapes. You should root some cuttings from those. They look great.
Keith They are there most years I think because they are almost growing in the water is why most years they are even bigger
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 05:47 PM
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My uncle David used to pick wild grapes like that by lakes and ponds in the woods, probably 45 years ago. They were really good.
Grape cuttings are easy to root and grow new plants from. If you take 3 leaf node cuttings, once the grapes grow dormant in the Fall, place them in soil, with the middle leaf node just slightly below soil and water them as needed. Usually 100% of the cuttings will root. Pinch off the flowers the first year, so the vine puts energy into rooting and growing, rather than fruiting.
With care, those grapes, may be incredible and more productive.
Keith
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 05:52 PM
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My wild grapes are tiny in comparison to those, probably 1/15th the size. ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2024/09/full-11798-229643-img_3500.jpeg) ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2024/09/full-11798-229645-img_3512.jpeg) My wild grapes make excellent juice, once cooked down, strained and after having lots of water and sugar added. I wish I had wild grapes like those. Keith
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 06:04 PM
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That reminds me I have to get going I have 40 quarts of juice to make.
Those may be growing wild but they aren't wild grapes.
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 06:11 PM
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The wild grapes that grow on and around my property are small, packed with seeds and bitter.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 06:52 PM
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It is time to pick Scuppernongs and Muscadines around here now. Many folks have arbors around their homes; commercial growers can have many acres of them. They are also found wild in the woods. If the vines are overhanging water, many kinds of fish can be caught below them. I have some vines around my house, however no grapes this year due to drought. Most farmers markets and grocery stores have them for sale too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppernong
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 06:58 PM
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Those grapes he has there remind me of the ones my grandfather had on his arbor. That 50 years ago those I was told were concord grapes. I can imagine there probably some of those vines in the woods from old farms and homesteads.
When coon were worth money I set traps by any grape vine I knew about a long farm fields.
Mac
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 07:16 PM
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Some of the grapevines in the swamp behind my place are huge. I've seen them with trunks 8-10 inches in diameter. You start yanking on one of the vines and a tree branch a hundred feet away starts shaking.
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Re: Got some wild grapes today
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09/15/24 07:26 PM
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Beaverpeeler how is your son doing? If you have updated the post where you brought up his surgery then I have missed it.
What"s good for me may not be good for the weak minded. Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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