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Planting seeds to grow seedless melons
Watermelon seeds reach their peak germination success rate after reaching 5
years of age. Planting new seeds will probably fall within the 50 percent range. I have never tried to test this out, but I learned it from a television gardening show or read it in a book on watermelons, I don't remember which. I have also been told (by an old melon grower) that if you take one of the runners from a watermelon plant, and cover the first leaf with dirt near the main stem, then after it has put down roots, cut the stem between the dirt and main stem, the resulting melons will be seedless. One test of this thus far have proved unsuccessful. I am going to try this again, when I get a chance. Dwayne From: "John Savage" Subject: planting seeds to grow seedless melons Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:12 PM There was some discussion on a radio gardening program about growing seedless watermelons, in particular, how to start. Turns out that there are seeds on the market, they cost $1 each, and have a relatively poor germination rate (about 50%). Intriguing. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Planting seeds to grow seedless melons
"Dwayne" writes:
I have also been told (by an old melon grower) that if you take one of the runners from a watermelon plant, and cover the first leaf with dirt near the main stem, then after it has put down roots, cut the stem between the dirt and main stem, the resulting melons will be seedless. One test of this thus far have proved unsuccessful. I am going to try this again, when I get a chance. Amazing. But I think you would need a long growing season to test this, as the rooted stem would set you back a few months. I wonder whether it would work for pumpkins? :-] -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Planting seeds to grow seedless melons
"Dwayne" writes:
I have also been told (by an old melon grower) that if you take one of the runners from a watermelon plant, and cover the first leaf with dirt near the main stem, then after it has put down roots, cut the stem between the dirt and main stem, the resulting melons will be seedless. One test of this thus far have proved unsuccessful. I am going to try this again, when I get a chance. Amazing. But I think you would need a long growing season to test this, as the rooted stem would set you back a few months. I wonder whether it would work for pumpkins? :-] -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Planting seeds to grow seedless melons
"Dwayne" writes:
I have also been told (by an old melon grower) that if you take one of the runners from a watermelon plant, and cover the first leaf with dirt near the main stem, then after it has put down roots, cut the stem between the dirt and main stem, the resulting melons will be seedless. One test of this thus far have proved unsuccessful. I am going to try this again, when I get a chance. Amazing. But I think you would need a long growing season to test this, as the rooted stem would set you back a few months. I wonder whether it would work for pumpkins? :-] -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Planting seeds to grow seedless melons
"Dwayne" writes:
I have also been told (by an old melon grower) that if you take one of the runners from a watermelon plant, and cover the first leaf with dirt near the main stem, then after it has put down roots, cut the stem between the dirt and main stem, the resulting melons will be seedless. One test of this thus far have proved unsuccessful. I am going to try this again, when I get a chance. Amazing. But I think you would need a long growing season to test this, as the rooted stem would set you back a few months. I wonder whether it would work for pumpkins? :-] -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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