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.

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Thanks for the kind comments to those that were kindly commenting. John and Robert: Yes, my Abius are seedlings from PIN. One I think is a seedling of the cultivar "Gray"...however, I think that the "Gray" seedling is the tree that has never fruited to maturity. This was the first year I even noticed small pea sized fruits forming......but they all turned black and dropped. The conventional wisdom is that the average seed to fruit time period is 4-8 years. I think from my experience that the latter time is closer to most likely fruiting time. Mango Doc and John: This grape is supposedly a Burgundy Bunch grape...not that I know any difference between them once I get beyond the skin color and whether they are seedless or not. These grapes are prolific here in Florida, as you can see. They do have seeds and are small. So there isn't a lot of flesh in each grape to enjoy, but what is there is sweet and delicious. You just have to get by either swallowing or spitting the seeds and getting a low flesh to fruit ratio...something I am not very fond of. I could send cuttings if you are interested. Jacob: You can have Genova red budwood. It is best to send in early spring, just before the tree breaks dormancy. Remind me around then and I'll send you some. Sorry, I haven't put the layers on the E daw longan as of yet. I usually wait until fruiting season is over. So, if I have the chance, I'll be putting some on in the next month or so. Andrew: Good to hear about your Maha mango. Sorry to hear about your back issues. Yeah, I've been feasting on cherries from Costco. They have been particularly good this year. New Gen: That sugar apple is about 15 years old but it was uprooted and cut to a stump after Hurrican Wilma almost 6 years ago. So what you see represents 6 years growth. Tony: I tried an Ivory mango and I am going to do another thread on that subject where I'll compare the growth habit of Tog Bi Con and Ivory. Harry

PJ, The pads of the nopales variety, taste great raw or cooked. How spiny is your Nopales? If its a spineless variety it should only have a few small spines (mostly located around the edges). If its not a spineless variety, I could share some pads of Nopales spineless varieties I have. What I do to remove the spines, is take a sharp knife and skin the spine bud locations off under running water. I then skin around the pad edges. I finish with a light scrub with a brush under running water. After this, I eat out of hand raw or dice up for smaller pieces to cook. The pads selected for eating should have not hardened off yet. New growth green color and a little on the tender side, is what you are looking for. The taste of pads from one of my varieties taste great, like lemony green beans.