What is the sweetest melon to grow?
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[QUOTE=Deborah;]Carrie, I'm going to try that the next time I buy a store cantaloupe.[/QUOTE]
Guys it just doesn't work it will get soft but not sweet dont be disappointed.
No starch and it isn't going to get sweeter once picked.
This is why you let sweet potatoes cure for at least a month before you eat them.
Regular potatoes start to get sweet as they get older.
Here is the deal for the store if you walk into the melon department and you dont smell them then there aren't any there to bother with.
I smoke cigarettes and even I know if there is a good melon in the store.
One time I was about to walk in the door of HEB in Bastrop.
Before I got in I could smell cantaloupes.
I looked and they had Pecos Texas melons in the store never before or after did I see them.
Green flesh behind webbing bad melon.
Yellow to orange flesh with sweet smell good melon.
They cant sell them because they will rot on the way or at the store.
How did they fix this.
They just kept putting out crappy melons until everyone forgot what good one were.
Garbage fruit and melons are a big time pet peeve of mine I can get up on step about it.:lol:
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Sweetest Canteloupe?
Remind me sometime to tell you about the explosive gene in watermelons
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This is as good a time as any. We dont hear about it much these days, but 100 years ago, it was very common for watermelons to carry a gene that caused turgor pressure (water hydraulic pressure) to build up so high that they would crack at the least jostle or pin-prick. Under some conditions, they could explode so violently that pieces of watermelon would be blasted 20 to 30 feet away. These watermelons do NOT ship well! Watermelon land mines anyone?
I was given seed by a guy I worked with back about and grew them at my dads place. You have to set the stage by understanding that my dad thought the only good watermelon was a red watermelon and by that standard, a yellow flesh watermelon was never going to measure up. I grew these Whitleys Yellow watermelons and picked the first ripe melon sometime in late July. When I cut the melon, it popped pretty loudly but not really that much of a deal. The guy who gave me the seed cautioned about this so I expected to see them do a bit of jinking when I poked a knife in the end. I gave my dad a piece of this yellowish/orange interior watermelon. The surprise on his face was priceless as it was one of the best flavored watermelons either of us had ever eaten. A day or two later, he found another ripe melon and brought it out of the patch and proceeded to cut it. There was a loud boom and pieces of watermelon blew at least 20 feet from the (fortunately outdoor) picnic table. I stood there laughing at my dad with watermelon juice dripping off his eyebrows. That watermelon was also superb, but we only had about half of it to eat.
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