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Melons
I'm into my third year growing melons.
1st year I grew three plants and produced one tasteless melon.Hardly a great success ( 2nd year just one plant produced two small melons (cricket ball sized) with the most exquisite flavour. Hurrah! This year I have grown four plants and followed the cultivation notes to the letter. I have grown them as twin cordons and done the necessary hand-fertilisation, pinching out two leaves past each fertilised female flower. As soon as the fruits started to swell I have started daily feeding. I now have a pair of fruits on each of the four plants, currently the largest being the size of a CD in circumference. But the remaining fertilised fruits on all four plants have stopped growing at "marble" size. This is a huge improvemnt on the first two years, but the cultivation notes say I should be able to get between 4 and 6 melons per plant. Has anyone any idea what I need to do to keep the remaining fruits viable, or is it the norm for the plant to support just two? |
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