Fry Muscadine Grape Vine

Cowart is just one option. We suggest it because it is a similar variety that blooms at approximately the same time in the season and has been shown to be a reliable pollinator. Any other muscadine variety with a similar bloom time would be suitable.

If you leave the largest vine and keep it all trimmed I should make it to the top in one season. Fertilize it the first and middle of the month.
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Lisa, I have had good results by taking one of the longer, healthier vines and covering the middle part of the vine with good dirt and mulch and then adding a small weight, such as a brick, to keep the vine in place. The part of the vine that is in contact with the ground will grow its own roots and can eventually be pruned from the main part of the vine and it will survive on its own where it is or it can be transplanted to a location of your choice, preferably in the Fall of the year. At that time, treat it like any other transplant.

The USDA has a hardiness zone system that organizes regions by the average lowest temperature. The closer to the equator you go, the warmer it is, and the numbers go up. The coldest zone is 1a. Numbers are 10 degrees. A and B are 5 degree differences. So 8a is 5 degrees colder than 8b. 7a is 10 degrees colder than 8a. Search online for a USDA hardiness map and that should make it much more clear.

Depending on where you live, it might get too cold for some plants and it might stay too warm for others. That's the purpose of the system. So that you can judge whether or not a plant will grow well where you live.

It looks like Fry Muscadine is rated for zone 7 to 9.

You are extremely lucky to have a true healthy southern vine growing so well. I was in North Carolina many years ago, same for me, looked like grapes from Jurassic park. Plant it and life will find a way. The primary pollinators is the sweat bee, but not the only one...research.

We do offer dwarf trees search by using the filter options on the left side of the website. You can narrow your search down to size and this will bring up each variety that is available in a dwarf.

Muscadine plants have both male and female flowers, and some varieties are even self-fertile. Wild muscadine vines are dioecious, meaning they have separate male and female plants, with male vines bearing flowers with reduced pistils and female vines having flowers with reflexed anthers. However, many cultivated muscadine varieties are self-fertile

Cross-pollination by a different variety is key to its growing and bearing success. Plant one of these varieties within 100' for best pollination such as the Cowart muscadine.

Thank you for your question. The age and size information for our grapes is as follows: 4” pot: 6-12 months old and 4” tall bare root: 1 year old and 12-18” tall. Our grapes will typically take 2-3 years after planting to reach maturity and bear fruit.

No, Flame Seedless is not a good cross-pollinator for Fry Muscadine because they belong to different species of grapes