On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:13:57 +1000, Lionel van den Berg
wrote:

c wrote:

How big should a watermelon vine be before watermelons grow please ?

I planted about 7 small plants a few months ago. The vines are about
2m long now. They flower but that is all they do. The leaves on the
vines are only about 3 inches long.

Is there a site where they have images on how big the vine gets to
give me an idea on how much growing the plant has to do before I get
watermelons growing please.

All I can say is that your watermelon vine is seriously demented. It should
have taken over your garden by now with big leaves up to 30cm in diameter.

Does the vine look healthy?

Yes. It gets plenty of water. We have a bore and 5000 litre water tank
with good soil. I'm in Perth WA where its been sunny for the past 46
days without rain but I have been watering the plants two or three
times a day.

The cucumber plants I had were also small but procuded very tasty
cucumbers before I used a bit to much blood and bone with potashe
which dried the plant out and killed it.

All my plants are well spaced out. The tomatoes down the side of the
house have grown really well and the taste is really nice and sweet. I
get about 40 tomatoes from each plant.

The carrors, pototo and every thing else has gown as it should but not
the watermelon plants.