Earlier this week while assisting a resident just south of Lufkin, I noticed a wild grapevine with numerous clusters of small ...

The University of Arkansas, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, recently released Southern Sensation Seedless, a ...

Country duo Muscadine Bloodline released new album ‘…And What Was Left Behind’ on April 11, 2025. Jay Siske/Contributed No group in country music captures the spirit of the small-town South ...

I began a muscadine breeding program in 2006 at Arkansas, and my goal was to improve texture and skin characteristics further. Muscadines have traditionally been challenging to eat due to thick skins ...

Dr. Lelia Kelly shows how to understand seed catalogs, and Mr. D. talks about grapes and muscadines. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, retired Mississippi State University ...

After over 100 years of muscadine breeding, plant breeders developed the first seedless selections. Muscadines grow well in East Texas due to the area’s humid climate but are also successful in a ...

Professor Patrick Conner, who has led UGA’s muscadine grape breeding program since 2004, facilitates the event. “This is the absolute best event you can come to in the country if you are looking for ...

Bowman said it was normal for people to grow muscadine grapes in their yard and eat them at a young age. "I can't remember thinking about what it tastes like, all I know it was sweet and good," he ...

Muscadines are a species of grapevine native to the South that thrives in hot and humid climates. Their unique texture and flavor, along with their large, uncouth seeds, have prevented them from ...

Muscadines can grow much larger than Vitis species, sometimes as big as golf balls, and they are grown commercially in the Southeast for fresh-market and processing into wines, juices and jellies.

Most muscadine plants will grow about 12 inches the first year. They should reach the trellis wire by the third year. Muscadines are typically grown on a high wire cordon trellis.