Ison's Nursery How to Fertilize Mature Muscadine Vines

[@frankspivey3920]

What I like about his videos is he gets to the point. No dog or baby interrupting the video. Plus he knows what he’s talking about

[@scottdaniel732]

No kidding. I get so frustrated with all the “instructional” videos that stray from the topic. One video I watched, the guy planted his garden and put his cows out to pasture while also building a trellis.

[@dawilson1953]

I bought a vine from this company and it has done very well. I have followed their instructions on planting, fertilizing and pruning. I am really glad I chose them when I was looking for vines and information

[@LastofOldHighGuard]

These 'when' and 'why' explanations are really helpful. Thank you for the fine overview.

[@TonyBearrr]

Im a newbie but have a huge vineyard on my property so this channel will be perfect for me! Thanks Greg

[@IEP6964]

Thanks for this tutorial!

[@jeanburgin160]

Great information. Thank you for sharing and teaching. All the best.

[@donmarlowe717]

I have always followed all your instructions and have had two good grape yields but hoping for a better one this year with my vines being about five years old, my hardest problem is the cutting the vines back in early spring. thankyou for your great instructions

[@heavymechanic2]

Don, I cut back a neglected Concord and its the first time it had a decent fruit set, it was so overgrown I used an electric pruning saw on some cordons. Spur pruned it back to three cordons and its doing well, needs more work two years later. It had five cordons and I did not want to butcher the vine and cause too much stress at one time.

[@mrcharrington1]

Thanks. Great info. Love muscadine grapes and wine.

[@BJCulpepper]

Excellent video...

[@williammiller2660]

Enjoyed all your videos. I see you have killed the grass under vines. Do you use round up spray or something else to kill the grass and when do you spray? Thanks

[@gregsrmanglitz2386]

Thank you

[@tom20349]

Hey Greg everything you say in your videos has been spot on!!. I follow no others on the internet. I do have a quick question. I purchased 10 10 10 slow release fertilizer. I have bought your fertilizer several times in the past and works great with your fry seedless but its a bit costly to ship here to florida. so Greg should i be using a fast release or a slow release, or does it matter?

[@MrGdsuta]

Hi Greg, I stumbled upon your videos and I loved it. Quick question, are those grass important for the vine’s growth so you keep them along with the vines? Do you use insecticide and fungicide as well? Thank you.

[@tom20349]

Hello. I bought 2 your red seedless and planted both last year. One made it down the wire. The other struggled and only went 1-2 feet down the wire so far. What is the recommendation of fertilizer and calcium nitrate for both these vines here in zone 9 central Florida here on March 1?

[@ratlivesmatter125]

Great content. Is there any alternative to Calcium Nitrate that would work? I live in Hungary, that ingredient is hard to come by.

[@Hear4Metallica]

What did yall use to kill the weeds under the wires without harming the vines please?

[@MariaRodriguez-lk5tq]

Can you still add calcium nitrate to an older muscadine after august ? Ours is already producing fruit, not much though

[@eardw2251]

I bought 20 muscadines; Sugargate and Ison, from you 4 years ago and following your videos the plants are doing great. I had three questions about fertilizing: 1) you say put the calcium nitrate on after fruit-set, but my vines produce new fruit over several weeks. Do I shoot for the middle? 2) For the timing of the 10-10-10, is there a plant growth stage like leaf-out after fear of frost that better identifies when the plant needs the fertilizer? 3) Do you have any thoughts on fertigation? Thanks, great set of videos!

My mom has a huge vine growing now and lots of grapes, my question is can I cut some of the vine and replant it in soil and will that grow, or do I have to start from seeds? Great video, thanks for the knowledge.

[@maxdecphoenix]

hmm, you CAN clone the plant from cuttings after pruning (I would say anything around 1/4" to 1/2" diameter will have the energy to put out root, but anything smaller would likely wither and die or succumb to disease before rooting. However, I don't actually advise 'cuttings' as a propagation method when you only have one or two plants, simply because of the low probability of the cutting surviving. One, you're just not going to get THAT many cuttings off a single plant or tree; and two, the amateur likely doesn't have the time, inclination or resourses (mist system etc) to achieve a decent success rate with a small amount of cuttings. The exception being possibly a fig or something. I would however advise that you perform what is called a 'layer' either air or soil. You can find several videos that explain, but my cliff notes advise.is to find a low hanging shoot (or allow several to grow long) fill containers with a few inches of soil (they can be made of anything but, darker and opaquer are better and they just need to be able to drain out excess water and be able to be otherwise watered by rain or hose. I use anything from half-gallon pots to water bottles to soda bottles, old paper cups, w/e) then back-fill/bury several inches of the plant in that soil. During the growing season, it will take around a month~ for the tip to have produced sufficient roots to sustain itself and it can then be trimmed away from the main plant (but no real rush). Short of maybe a disease or something, you should have a 99% success rate in cloning. I have used this method to clone muscadines, blackberries, sweet potatoes, beans, Gardenia Japonicas, yaupon hollies, rhododendrons, Crepe Myrtils, ligustrums and mulberry to name a few. My personal tips from experience are don't use 'green tips' if you can avoid it. With muscadines, I try to cut back to semi-lignified wood (it'll be brown, but still that season's growth.) Green shoots have very thin cellular walls and are prone to disease when buried. Shoots that are a few months old is much more hardy to be buried. And I've taken to leaving on the leaves (if I can). Most will tell you to remove them because they'll die and invite disease, but I think the leaves help to anchor the shoot in the soil. It helps to stabalize the shoot, and i've really never seen it be a problem.

Thanks..

[@RobTaylorRTP]

I have a 10 year old muscadine trellis with a flat top arbor, with 4 main trunk locations, but each of those trunks was neglected and allowed shooters to come up from the roots. So, the base of each trunk looks like a fan of 10 or so trunks all climbing up the trellis to the arbor top, where they then go all over the place. I am trying to manage back the mess, but want to do it the right way. Should I cut down to one main trunk per grouping at this point, or allow 4 or so trunks per group, and cut the rest? Leave them all? I figure with 4 per group I can let them come up, and give them each their own quadrant of the space that normally 1 trunk would use, and I can just limit each trunk to a much smaller amount of vine after pruning. I also dont want to kill the plant by removing 90% of the trunk capacity. Whatever I do, I figured I would try it on one of the trunk groups first to see how it worked but I know these things are multi-year projects before you get good grapes. Just looking for some nice super sweet table grapes, as I love the taste of fresh muscadines!!

[@skyangel6336]

I'm not sure how old mine is but it's young ..I still have in pot it's about 3-4 foot high and produced muscadines but the leaves are getting mottled I guess I just feed it around the part of pot farthest from the plant. It's august and it's producing some muscadines but not very many and I hadn't fertilized it ....Should I fertilize it since the leaves are getting mottled It's August.

[@scottdaniel732]

So how do the roots know which direction the vines are growing?

[@glentullos7661]

I live in East Texas. when can I plant muscadine Vines

[@shuvoagrosylhet95]

,good

[@Antherdayinparsdise]

I have a question, I have grapes on my Vine now and it is June do I give them calcium nitrate next month this is the second year of fruit

[@christinewilson9968]

Is that 4 years from bearing 1st fruit or when planted? I have a cousin named Greg. Ison. He was born in Ohio.

[@nccrchurchunusual]

SoI have old vine that I cleared out the weeds & sapplings. Definitely old but I cut it way back out of necessity.

[@markh51]

How and with what do you fertilize 2nd year grape vines?

[@davidcranford3445]

You can buy it at the local hardware

[@micahpop6656]

Um, I think that guy asked "how" and "what", not "where". I could have used the answer myself. Peace@@davidcranford3445

[@josephauld6565]

Could I just use blood/bone meal?