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It all depends on where you live. Try what the locals are making and see if it fits your taste. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Don't prune any. This first year they need to leaf out and grow roots. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Buy from vines to wine by Jeff cox. That will pretty much fix you up. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

You can also get the fence posts and dip them in tar and it will hold up well. Just check the prices. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

There are normally some cuttings on eBay, more as march creeps around. The other option (and best) would be find a vineyard and offer to help prune. Most allow you to keep any cuttings you wish plus you get experience.

Delaware is great! Wonderful flavor.

I'm not sure of your area, but a lot love triple crown.

Try some muscadines, or some if the varieties developed by Florida state university. Kava sounds like a great potential crop too. Good luck!

I haven't even looked back there yet.

Most of my muscadine have much smaller leaves than my other varieties.

If they were naturally growing on your property then they shouldn't be muscadine. What do the clusters look like? If they are small berries and in a bunch then they aren't muscadine. However I have heard of muscadines growing up north but that their flavor profile changes a lot.

Ok I'll add to this. I'm growing mostly norton, favorite, blanc Dubois, and chambourcin with some Delaware, black Spanish, Catawba, Isabella, herbemont, lomanto, muscadine and some zhender crosses. The zhender crosses were obtained this year through a friend and they had excellent growth and...

Muscadine in 4b? I'm curious as to how well that's working. Please do tell.

I second that. The flavor of many if them is just as good, with far less hassle. And as I've mentioned before, American vines in American soil makes much more sense.

Yes, and that also depends on the type wine you like. Some of my thoughts would be to try hybrids likechancellor, chambourcin, Delaware, norton, arandell, traminette or maybe even some vinifera like Viognier, petit Verdot and cab franc.

Check out the book "the grape grower". I believe that the author is up there and it has detailed descriptions of certain grapes. It's an excellent book also.

I think that if your posts are set in concrete and you brace the ends then you won't have a problem. You can see an example in the grape grower book. You can angle the brace in the inside towards the end post or do an h bracket brace, sealing that one in gravel or concrete. My rows are about 40...

I have a friend that grows it in Delaware, so i bet it would be fine there also.

I wouldn't use them in a big setting, but mine are fine for my ten rows. The ends were dipped in tar, set in concrete, sprayed with thompson's. No problems here in year 4.

If you picked them the same time you picked your others, then it is more than possible that they were picked too soon. In the south, they should be the last grape to ripen. In fact many will just start to fall when they ripen, and can just be picked off the ground. I know many that out tarps...