Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Show your BLUES, 1 by wind

wind wrote:
these grapes look blue so I posted them here. I thought we had Reliance red seedless grapes but these have seeds, so now I'm not sure what the id is. We just harvested 8lbs the most ever! I guess the drought was good for grapes!

We made jam yesterday (first time) and may have ruined the whole batch because I don't think it gelled enough. I wish we had someone to show us how to make jam right. It never passed the plate or spoon gel test and it seemed like it was reducing too much so we panicked and tossed in a pkt of pectin!... boiled it another minute then processed.

So many recipes and all are different plus we didn't really know what we were doing! We used 6 cups of sugar; recipes varied from 6 -14 cups! God knows how much we should have really used, also they don't really say how long it takes to gel...just overnight? We haven't opened one yet but it looks too loose!