My Pam white muscadines are starting to ripen. I have already caught 2 coons and a opossum in the vines. I have to cull the heard before the majority of my grapes ripen.
Put bird netting on my Frontenac last weekend, will check the brix this weekend, I may be picking and making wine sooner than I thought. They normally ripen in mid Sept.
I've never had birds or squirrels bothering my muscadines. I had a french hybrid grape (just pulled up the vine this summer) that was on the same arbor with the muscadines and the birds would come and get them and not bother the muscadines. I did have to dispose of a possum that was getting my muscadines year before last.