problems with growing watermelons – how to tell when they are ripe?
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25 Responses to Growing Watermelons Part 2
if you had like the seedless type, the males of that type are well not that good to eat, the females have the red and the white seeds. Not sure if you eat those type thou. I want to know if i can grow a plant 100% indoors and never take it outside seeing its kinda late in the season and i have a packet of seeds from last spring i never planted.
Dude that is a yellow watermelon quite delicious and not as common as your pink variety but are sweeter and usually have less seeds. Awesome flavour mate enjoy. They are ripe this is a normal yellow watermelon variety.
you have a yellow fleshed watermelon, dont expect them to get red, red does not mean ripe if you have yellow melon. Keep up the good work. one tip, press down on them firmly while on the vine, if you hear a cracking sound it is ripe. Go ahead and pick it.
when you put a knife in the watermelon and it crackes it is ripe
joseluisflores45
October 13, 2011 at 11:31 pm Reply
I notice if there is too much grass or mulch on or around the grown the grass hold the moisture it makes the watermelon start to rot on the bottom before it is ready to ripe.I usually build a mound and plant the seeds,they seem to grow better like that.you need an area that they can grow just on the ground with not grass or mulch.they need the air circulation, and water as needed .Hopes this helps.
Dude! that looks just like a normal yellow watermelon! delicious..
financialmercer1
October 14, 2011 at 12:33 am Reply
feel ur pain…after a great success last year , just picked one with a totally dead feely-stem and it wasnt quite ripe…got another that is starting to show yellow patches on the skin, getting uniform color, and cracks when u press on it..but the feely stem is green as grass….arrrg!
it seems to me likes this guy’s never cut a watermelon bfore he’s havin such a hard time
TOPTENoscariglesias
October 14, 2011 at 7:46 am Reply
Plug it ~ cut about 1 1/2 x 1 1/2″ about 2 – 2 1/2″ deep plug to a point I> with a thin bladed knife, take plug out look at it then put plug back in and let grow more of needed, it’s called pluging.
I have had success and failures in the garden over the years but even in the failures you learn something. Cut them up and toss them into the compost pile and strike it up to why we often don’t waste garden energy and food supply on wild volunteer veggies. Not that I haven’t mind you; I do it every year! Well, off to check my own crop I have seven melons from 5 plants, not bad for my part of the world.
Hello Kiyafarm,
We have a fruit here in Florida that grows in the orange groves called a cisterine (citrus melon) or something like that and I believe you might have one of those growing in your garden. You can’t eat it and it looks like what you have there mate, so I don’t believe you have a watermelon. I’ve cut open some of these citrus melons and they look inside just like what yours looked like inside. Just thought I’d send this information.
if you had like the seedless type, the males of that type are well not that good to eat, the females have the red and the white seeds. Not sure if you eat those type thou. I want to know if i can grow a plant 100% indoors and never take it outside seeing its kinda late in the season and i have a packet of seeds from last spring i never planted.
tara37830
October 13, 2011 at 9:50 pm
My watermelons are only the size of fists, they are rottening. Getting black spots on them. Why is that and is there anything I can do about them.
mrsbiscuitt
October 13, 2011 at 10:00 pm
@eddie68000: Yes, of course. That would be Monsanto Terminator Seed technology. Look up those three words. A disgrace to humankind.
Marcoosianism
October 13, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Dude that is a yellow watermelon quite delicious and not as common as your pink variety but are sweeter and usually have less seeds. Awesome flavour mate enjoy. They are ripe this is a normal yellow watermelon variety.
ocbc1975
October 13, 2011 at 10:32 pm
you have a yellow fleshed watermelon, dont expect them to get red, red does not mean ripe if you have yellow melon. Keep up the good work. one tip, press down on them firmly while on the vine, if you hear a cracking sound it is ripe. Go ahead and pick it.
dochawk08
October 13, 2011 at 10:41 pm
when you put a knife in the watermelon and it crackes it is ripe
joseluisflores45
October 13, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I notice if there is too much grass or mulch on or around the grown the grass hold the moisture it makes the watermelon start to rot on the bottom before it is ready to ripe.I usually build a mound and plant the seeds,they seem to grow better like that.you need an area that they can grow just on the ground with not grass or mulch.they need the air circulation, and water as needed .Hopes this helps.
watercopper
October 13, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Dude! that looks just like a normal yellow watermelon! delicious..
financialmercer1
October 14, 2011 at 12:33 am
feel ur pain…after a great success last year , just picked one with a totally dead feely-stem and it wasnt quite ripe…got another that is starting to show yellow patches on the skin, getting uniform color, and cracks when u press on it..but the feely stem is green as grass….arrrg!
asedcopf
October 14, 2011 at 1:12 am
not enough water. sorry mate.
huronhorde
October 14, 2011 at 1:52 am
Maybe turn them every few days so they don’t go yellow?
muderousegg
October 14, 2011 at 2:36 am
There are yellow watermelon varieties – just taste it. But it’s been over a year now so I guess that’s not an option.
masm60
October 14, 2011 at 2:44 am
It’s a yellow watermelon it’s supposed to look like that!!!!!!!
GAGALOVER347
October 14, 2011 at 3:01 am
My sympathies — I have the same bloody problem with my cantaloupes, which came out the size of baseballs.
hjones1
October 14, 2011 at 3:47 am
I don’t think you did anything wrong, maybe it needs a certain type of fertilizer to be sweet. Sometimes even supermarkets sell tastless watermelons.
000Winter000
October 14, 2011 at 4:38 am
in oder to tell that is ripe you need to see that the steam is brown
racheleaston43
October 14, 2011 at 5:11 am
your passion is great man, keep it up!!
usernamemikisok
October 14, 2011 at 6:09 am
No we are not laughing we are learning.thanks
272727cupcake
October 14, 2011 at 6:43 am
I am learning with this video, i have a watermelon plant so i cant wait for it to bear fruit and see. thanks
272727cupcake
October 14, 2011 at 7:03 am
it seems to me likes this guy’s never cut a watermelon bfore he’s havin such a hard time
TOPTENoscariglesias
October 14, 2011 at 7:46 am
Plug it ~ cut about 1 1/2 x 1 1/2″ about 2 – 2 1/2″ deep plug to a point I> with a thin bladed knife, take plug out look at it then put plug back in and let grow more of needed, it’s called pluging.
SpikenAL
October 14, 2011 at 8:16 am
@kiyafarm Yellow watermelon? I need to try that never eaten one of those.
TonyFirelli
October 14, 2011 at 8:30 am
I have had success and failures in the garden over the years but even in the failures you learn something. Cut them up and toss them into the compost pile and strike it up to why we often don’t waste garden energy and food supply on wild volunteer veggies. Not that I haven’t mind you; I do it every year! Well, off to check my own crop I have seven melons from 5 plants, not bad for my part of the world.
Maeven6
October 14, 2011 at 9:23 am
thats seems to be a yellow water melon maybe victim on climate change i myself had to start planting a little later to deal with the high heat
ntoyou
October 14, 2011 at 10:04 am
Hello Kiyafarm,
We have a fruit here in Florida that grows in the orange groves called a cisterine (citrus melon) or something like that and I believe you might have one of those growing in your garden. You can’t eat it and it looks like what you have there mate, so I don’t believe you have a watermelon. I’ve cut open some of these citrus melons and they look inside just like what yours looked like inside. Just thought I’d send this information.
poky228
October 14, 2011 at 10:14 am