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Actually, you did make it clear and, having read my post again, I should have stopped after the first sentence. Sometimes I need to hobble my fingers.

I used T posts for my line posts, but I got 7 and 8 foot posts. Mine don't so much bear weight, but keep the wind from blowing the plants over. I have an outward leaning T post and an earth anchor at the ends. But I don't think my wire is even very tight. And my line posts are much closer...

Which climate zone are you in? I have about a dozen varieties of muscadines in Southeast Missouri. I was at a vineyard/winery in South Carolina a few years ago where they were growing Tara bronze muscadines for their white wines. I have some Tara vines and they produce well and make good table...

It's described as "green." After the remaining fermentation is done (should be just a few days) give it 2 or 3 weeks to settle and rack it. Potassium metabisulfite (campden) can be added at that time, .25 tsp per 5 or 6 gallons for powder, one tablet for each gallon for campden. Then rack every...

Here's a web page that explains a lot about the use of a hydrometer and has charts that show what a given amount of sugar added to a volume of liquid would yield in alcohol and what a given amount of sugar contained in a volume of liquid would yield. The chart is for one gallon volume. So 12...

The only thing wrong with drinking Virgin wine is that you won't have as much wine later when it will probably be better. Oh, and it increases the amount of topping up you have to do when you rack. If it's still putting out co2, you don't need to sulfite it yet, but it won't hurt unless it's...

They may have a lot of straightening out to do. I also made it for k-sorb, so I'm sure they're hearing from other customers if they've done much of this.

I think this is one of the pros with freezing them before sorting and cleaning them.

The poor taste of your Wine is what we refer to as "green." It is typical for a wine that hasn't aged.

I have a suggestion, get an Allinone. Oh,...nevermind.

With respect to the difference in Campden tablets and potassium metabisulfite crystals, the practical difference is that the tablets are very accurately measured for 1 tablet per gallon. This makes it easy to do one or two gallon batches. The crystals or powder is dosed at one quarter teaspoon...

The tissue cultured plants I have gotten usually were indistinguishable from half gallon potted plants after the first season. I was impressed.

Well, if you want opinions, I doubt you transferred it too early. I usually transfer from primary to secondary at 1.020 to 1.000 and have fermentation still going in the secondary. That's why it's called primary and secondary fermentation. You got some oxygen during the transfer, so that's...

I have a crusher like that, but no destemmer. I grow muscadines, so no stems to worry about. I bought it used, no instructions. Where do you get the food grade silicone spray?

Looks like you've become a kit expert. I've never done a kit. I did do one bucket of juice, though. It's 2 years in the carboy now and a disappointment. Other than that, I make wine from grapes and berries I grow. A week or more in the primary might be ok with elderberries, but not blackberries...

If you're familiar with muscadines, I think you can imagine the force needed to pop their skins on a bucket bottom sized area even if it was only 2 layers of grapes. I think the bottle bottom sized area popping 4 or 5 grapes at a time might be more feasible. I used a food grinder once. It was...

K-meta is very corrosive, so don't get it on pruners or any other metal including "stainless" steel.

I did the landscape fabric on my 3 rows, 100 yards each, and it has not worked well for me. Sand and dirt blows into the mulch and as it composts it becomes a richer growing medium than my soil. Weeds and grass proliferate on it, but the landscape fabric inhibits the vines from getting the...

They grow in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Missouri Bootheel, so Northwest Arkansas is probably full of them. You just have to find them. I had some located a few years ago and a couple of days before I went to pick, they were bushhogged. So I planted some in my back yard. I dug up...

Hey, Craig, how are the elderberries coming this year. I have some that have apparently ripened. Apparently, because they are missing. The birds are killing me. I've netted my blackberries and hope to salvage some of them, but probably half are gone.