I have 3 Majesty vines. I have or have had about a dozen varieties of muscadines. I bought some Delicious muscadines of the same size at the same time. The Delicious has proved to be more cold resistant. In fact, most of the varieties are more cold hardy than the Majesties. I would point out that, being in Southeast Missouri, I'm pretty far north in the muscadine territory. My Majesties also have not produced near the crops as most of the other varieties. That is to be expected for a female vine. Big grapes, but not so many of them. As near as I can recall, they taste ok and have no other characteristics that are a problem. I'm not so disappointed that I'm pulling them up, but don't need any more. I planted them in 2012 and then in February of 2015 we had a cold spell that was worse than anything in decades, temps of 10 below zero. Most of my muscadines were killed back to knee high, ankle high, or down to the ground. Every one of them came back, including some that sent up new shoots from the root. Here is a picture of a Majesty.

I'm coming to this conversation a few years late. The story of my life, LOL! Anyway, I live in the heart of Muscadine country, SE Georgia and have twelve vines in all. Three of them, Ison, Supreme, and Pam are beginning their third year of production. (They have bloom buds and will be blooming soon that is.) Two other varieties and a second Ison, will enter their first year of production this year. (Yes, I liked Ison enough to get a second vine.) The reputation of the Ison muscadine is that it's not very cold tolerant in comparison to some others. However it is one of the earliest black varieties to bare fruit, so if you succeed at taking measures to protect it in a colder climate, you have a better chance of actually getting fruits with Ison than you would with say Late Fry which has better cold tolerance but needs a much longer growing season to ripen fruit. If you like the white muscadines, maybe you should try a brand new one that has just come out called Hall. I don't have this one, but Hall is supposed to be very cold hardy and an early season variety. It's also self fertile like Ison, so you only need one vine. Lane is another new early season self fertile variety that has just come out. The subject of Lane raises another consideration when picking a muscadine, and that's skin qualities. One of the big improvements in muscadines is the skin. The skin of Ison is not as tough or bitter as some of the older varieties. But the skin of the still newer table varieties such as Supreme, Black Beauty, Late Fry, Lane and a few others is crunchy and sweet. So the lady who mentioned her daughter eating the skins, well, if its from one of the newer varieties such as Supreme, I don't blame her. Ison is a great muscadine bred expressly to have a lot of the flavor characteristics of wild muscadines. It's really meant for making jam and yes some wines where you have an especially strong "musky" muscadine flavor. As a result, some folks will tend to prefer the flavor of some of the table varieties that aren't so musky. Most of my vines are on trellises for fruit production. I planted my second Ison to go on a swing arbor. I was impressed with the way Ison has a long lasting two tone red green color phase on it's ripening grapes which I find very attractive. I planted the second vine on the swing arbor for aesthetic reasons on account of that characteristic. Last comment, someone mentioned the red pigment of black muscadines being unstable. Yes, that's true, but the variety Nobel, has the most stable pigmentation and therefor most commercial red muscadine wines will have at least some Nobel grapes in them. If the wine maker is going for a strong musk flavor, they will do about a 70% Ison and 30% Nobel mix. God bless. Marcus

I gathered a bunch of seeds from store bought muskadines, let them completely dry for a few months then popped them in some nice putting soil I've been cultivating a few years now. I didn't do anything special, just buried them about a quarter inch, watered and 3 months later I have some nice seedlings. The tallest now is about 2 inches, but I expect they'll take off soon. I recently transplanted to deeper pots and so far so good. The first transplant, about a month ago has spread out and now has 2 new shoots coming up. I'm looking forward to building a nice trellis for them soon as they're big enough. I have plenty of sunny areas in the yard as opposed to my neighbor who planted his up under the pines in his back yard. His are growing, but I have my doubts they'll produce much in the shade.. I would tell him, but he already knows everything there is to know about everything that is to know. LOL

I don't know what zone you are in but here in zone 5. I wait till late Febr. then I take hard wood cutting while they are dormant about 5 to 7 inches. Prune bottom end at a angle below a nod,dip in rooting hormone powder, make a hole for each cutting and put in moist sand at least 1/2 way or so and put them in a cool room or cave for the callous to form. Then when late March or early April I put them either in the ground with protection from the sun or in pots of potting mix or I mostly use sand perlite, and cover with plastic, but put in some props of some sort to keep the the plastic from touching the cuttings. keep out of the direct sun keep moist, but not wet and usually by May I've got top growth and I DON'T do the tug test just to see if there is resistance for proof of root growth. i'll find out by middle of June I carefully dig them out and pot up. Not all root, but most times I have at least 80% that do. What zone are you in? and the last two Muscadine varieties ?