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Carlos Muscadine is a productive, self-fertile bronze variety with a traditional Southern muscadine flavor similar to Scuppernong. It is one of the best-known bronze muscadines for making juice, jelly, preserves, and homemade wine.
Carlos is a dependable choice for home gardens, farms, vineyards, and edible landscapes throughout North Florida, the Florida Panhandle, South Alabama, and the Gulf Coast. The vigorous vine produces heavy crops of medium-sized bronze fruit and performs best in full sun on a strong permanent trellis.
Pollination Information
Carlos is self-fertile. One Carlos vine can produce fruit without another muscadine variety nearby.
Carlos can also provide pollen for female muscadine varieties, including:
• Scuppernong
• Jumbo
• Scarlett
• Fry
Fruit color does not affect pollination. A bronze self-fertile muscadine such as Carlos can pollinate bronze, red, pink, purple, or black female varieties.
Carlos should be described as self-fertile, not as a male muscadine.
Plant Details
• Plant type: Deciduous fruiting vine
• Fruit color: Bronze to golden bronze
• Fruit size: Medium
• Flavor: Traditional muscadine flavor similar to Scuppernong
• Pollination: Self-fertile
• Pollinator use: Can pollinate nearby female muscadine varieties
• Harvest season: Generally midseason
• Ripening: Fruit tends to ripen evenly
• Sun: Full sun
• Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil
• Trellis space: Allow approximately 20 feet of trellis space per mature vine
• Best uses: Juice, jelly, preserves, wine, and fresh eating
• Patent status: Unpatented
• Climate fit: North Florida, the Florida Panhandle, South Alabama, and the Gulf Coast
Fruit and Harvest Note
Carlos is especially valuable as a processing muscadine. The fruit is smaller than many newer fresh-market varieties, but the vine is highly productive and produces dependable crops for juice, jelly, preserves, and wine.
The berries generally ripen evenly and commonly separate from the stem with a relatively dry scar, making harvesting and processing easier.
North Florida Growing Note
Plant Carlos in a sunny location with well-drained soil. Avoid low areas where water remains after heavy rain.
Carlos can produce heavy crops, so it needs a strong, permanent trellis. Allow approximately 20 feet of trellis space for each mature vine.
Annual dormant pruning helps keep the vine manageable and encourages productive new growth. In North Florida, muscadines are generally pruned during February or early March before vigorous spring growth begins.
Good air circulation and annual removal of old fruit stems can also help reduce fruit-rot problems.
Local Pickup and Limited Shipping
Available for local pickup at Advanced Nursery Growers in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Most of our plants and trees are available for local pickup. Limited shipping may be available for select smaller plants depending on plant size, season, and current inventory. Please contact us before ordering if shipping is needed. Shipping charges are calculated separately.
Wholesale Availability
Wholesale quantities may be available for landscapers, garden centers, farms, vineyards, and commercial growers. Contact us for current sizes, quantities, and wholesale pricing.
Contact Advanced Nursery Growers
Advanced Nursery Growers
1911 McLeod Road
DeFuniak Springs, FL 32435
Phone: (850) 391-2228
Email: info@advancednurserygrowers.com
