What a great harvest Ned! Mine never cluster up in the numbers yours appear to have. Is your bronze the "Tara" variety? I have "Tara" & the dark purple "Supreme"variety that makes amazingly tasty, very large fruit. My Tara has never been a great performer and the size of the grapes it makes are pretty small. I may end up replacing it w/ some other variety.

Eyeckr, Strange, I thought I had already responded to your comments, but I must have forgot to post it. I will try again, but keep it shorter.

Thanks for the comments on my muscadine picture. It is Janebell. I like Janebell because it bears well, has nice size fruit, and tastes good. Not all muscadines have all of those qualities.

I also have Supreme, which I like a lot. I have a two year old Triump and a Pineapple, that only had a few grapes this year. They were good, but I consider Janebell better, so far. I have one that I am not sure about, but I think it's Tara. The grapes on it are rather small, but tasty.

Stan went to a muscadine growers demo last week where they had numerous varieties to taste. He said he liked Janet and Sweet Jenny. I sure would have liked to go with him but had a previous engagement and couldn't make the trip.

I have a bumper crop of citrus this year. The limbs are all hanging down and look like they will break any minute. If I had been smart, I would have thinned the fruit, but I figure it is too late now. How are your's and Bob Motyca's?

Ned

Looks like I might have to change my Tara to a Janebell or one of Stan's picks. You guys always get a headstart on maturing fruit. My Supremes are just now ripening up.

My citrus are doing great. I've got a heavy crop of Tiawanicas that I hope will all ripen up before too long. I am a little worried though because even though I stopped fertilizing a while back many of my inground citrus are pushing a lot of new tender growth right now. Here's to hoping for another mild winter I haven't had a chance to stop by Dr Bob's place since I think late spring when I dropped off a high grafted Nippon Orangequat & a Changsha x Yuzu cross he requested I do for him. All of his citrus were doing well and looked to have a decent crop at that time.

Ned read my comment about never tasting muscadines. In fact in Colorado, I have never even seen anyone who grew muscadine. Perhaps, it is too cold in Colorado to grow them. Anyway, Ned was very kind and sent me a box of his fruit. It came yesterday (Saturday Sept. 15th). My thoughts concerning the taste of muscadines, was fairly good, however, it is a bit of a hassle to spit out the skin and then the seeds. I think I tend to like the taste of real grapes better. Thank you Ned for your kindness. - Millet

Bob,

My wife and I were wondering if they arrived and if they were still edible! Like I said earlier, Muscadines are something you learn to like, most people from childhood. Few people like them when they first try them. A lot of folks will pop them into their mouth and try to chew up the whole thing, seeds and all! Even my children aren't crazy about them - they had too many other things to choose from when they were growing up.

Bob, One of the Golden Grapefruit fell off the tree, and I decided to eat it, even though it was still green. The flesh already had the golden color and was pretty tasty, considering that it was still green as a gourd.

Eyeckr, All of my citrus are still putting out new growth too. Even the Kumquats and trifoliates. Actually, right now is the best time for me to graft.

I have so many different kinds of new citrus fruit to taste this season. It is going to be a citraholics delight. I am going on a long binge for sure!


Ned