I am checking the tendril every day on these. I’m hoping I can wait and get them at the right time. knocking on them is no help, I’m hard of hearing and cannot tell what sounds they make. field spot and tendril? is there any other test I can try?

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at any rate I’m very happy, several midget melons, cantaloupe (unexpected!) and some real watermelons in there, growing!

the patch is getting wild and a pumpkin found its way in

I’ve only ever had one melon of any kind succeed here so far in 6 years of trying and it was baseball sized. delicious but tiny. I read these melon threads start to finish, all I could find. warmed the soil, put down plastic and black fabric, straw and fertilized like crazy. I started some way early to get a head start on the season too.

thanks to everyone in these threads I will eat a melon this year. now if I can only get a handle on okra…
(this guy is 50 days old, lol)

none of mine are ready yet, so we’ll see. Id think there might be a bit more to the terroir in a flavor as complex as muskmelon can be. Sometimes strawberries can taste flavorless or even disgusting, and Ive always imagined that the many compounds that give the strawberry its complexity of flavor could be out of balance.This might impact your perception of sweetness even, I imagine. Muskmelons must be chock a block with flavinoids and other compounds that probably taste terrible in any quantity, but that together taste like some kind of revelatory floral boquet in the right proportions.

I have limited experience with muskmeloms, but they’ve been far and away less productive and more fickle than watermelons. I know the stripers bother them much more, and they seem to get wilt much more readily. I grew Minnesota Midget for a couple of years but was disappointed with if for the most part. The fruit was SO small, and didn’t ripen all that early considering. I had pretty good luck with ‘Athena’. Very firm and meaty, a tad gritty. very sweet, good flavor, and plenty chunky at 6-7 lbs. or so. What muskmelons do you favor @fruitnut ?

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We bought a variety of seeds from this company. The company sent it Sivan F 1 to us as a complement. It was wonderful charentai.

Everyone we gave it to love it. Most said the best they hve ever had. It was productive, sweet and aromatic.

The downside, only moderately resistant to fusarium wilt and powderly mildew. We did not have space for it this year. With the rain we have had this summer, it would be a disaster.

If I live in a drier place, I would grow this variety.

Genetics are all important in melons. I’ve hesitated to comment on Petit Gris de Rennes. I grew it in once and have not grown again. It was a relatively poor flavored melon compared with others I’ve grown. Susan Healy is a much better melon. Anne Arundel is also pretty good. I grew Charentais melons a few times and generally found them to have more problems with disease than I care to deal with. Also, claims above of “best” flavored melon IMO are premature at best. Melons originated in the “Stan’s” (Uzbekistan, Kazackhstan, Kyrgyzstan, etc). Better flavored melons come from that area from time to time.

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RE short season watermelons, Sandhill Preservation has arguably the shortest season varieties I’ve grown. Glenn also sells some of the best old fashioned cantaloupes and melons available.

Update on watermelons: I am growing watermelons that were in my freezer labeled as Ledmon from . When I saw the fruits a few weeks ago, I realized they are not Ledmon! I finally figured out what they are when I remembered saving seed from a variant Moon & Stars watermelon several years ago that did not produce stars on the fruit. So anyone who got Ledmon seed from me this year, it is Moon & Stars sans the stars. Flavor is very good. Ledmon produces very light colored watermelons that never sunburn. I have Ledmon growing from seed planted about 5 weeks ago and will have fresh seed later this fall.

I hate when people mix species. Sakata Sweet is an oriental melon. It won’t cross with cantaloupes. If you like oriental melons, it is very sweet. I personally don’t like them preferring true cantaloupes. He also lists Piel de Sapo and Valencia which are winter storage melons. Look close before growing them as most growers are not familiar with storing melons to ripen. He also managed to include a hybrid which is ok if you like hybrids, but I prefer growing varieties I can save seed from. Gardener’s Path is IMO not a very good source of information. You might get a copy of “the melon” by Amy Goldman. She is a bit biased but manages to cover a lot of melons. One note of importance, what I recognize as a variety may not be what you can find seed of. Honeydew Orange to me is a specific variety but I suspect you will find a hybrid with almost the same name.

Of the varieties listed in the Gardeners Path article, Earli-Dew, Minnesota Midget, Collective Farm Woman, Rocky Ford, Hales Jumbo, Crenshaw, and Honeydew Orange are worth growing. Varieties he does not list but worth growing include: Anne Arundel, Charentais, Hollybrook Luscious, Sugar Salmon, Susan Healy, Ananas, and Romanian Green. Caution that Romanian Green is not super sweet. It is selected for unique flavor and tends to be a favorite of people who don’t enjoy extra sweet melons.

Keep in mind this is based on my taste buds which may not match what your taste buds prefer. Also, climate is local. What grows and tastes good here may not taste good where you live.

Edit to add: I can talk about a lot of melons and what they taste like, but one hybrid deserves mention. Ambrosia has been around a lot of years. Properly grown, it is a delicious melon.

Melon, Melone Ananas

Melon, Melone Ananas  Ananas Melon. Ananas means pineapple in Italian and this netted melon has the aroma of pineapple. Large fruit on a vigorous and productive plant. Netted melon with yellow sweet flesh.   Ananas melons are small to moderately sized, oval fruits, averaging 3-5" in diameter. The rind is firm, ranging in color from green to golden yellow depending on maturity, and is covered in a rough, tan netting. Underneath the thin rind, the flesh is aqueous with a soft but dense consistency, encasing a small cavity of light brown seeds suspended in a gelatinous liquid. The flesh also ranges in color from pale yellow to ivory, but depending on the specific variety, it may also appear pale green, orange, to white. Ananas melons have a notable, perfumed aroma similar to the scent of pineapples. When ripe, the melons bear a sweet, tropical, and floral flavor followed by a faint, caramel-like aftertaste.

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Ananas melons, botanically classified as Cucumis melo, are sweet fruits belonging to the reticulatus group, which encompasses melons with rinds covered in a rough netting. Ananas in French and Italian translates to mean “pineapple,” and the melon received its tropical name from its sweet, floral taste and aroma. Ananas melons have also acquired many other names over time, including Sharlyn melons, Pineapple melons, Khoob melons, Israeli or Middle Eastern melons, and Ananas D’Amerique a Chair Verte in France. Ananas melons are considered to be somewhat rare, seasonally found through specialty growers, and there are multiple sweet melon varieties varying in appearance that are generally labeled under the Ananas name in local markets and home gardens.

The history of Ananas melons is mostly unknown, with some experts connecting it to older melon varieties found in regions of Northern Africa and the Middle East. The sweet melon variety became popular in the United States and was first documented in the 19th century, where it was featured in multiple American seed catalogs in . Ananas melons were also famously noted in M.M. Vilmorin-Andrieux’s book "The Vegetable Garden" in . Today Ananas melons are somewhat rare to find and are grown for specialty markets, especially in Europe and the United States.

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