super cool, whats the reason youre going this route?
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I am only trying one melon this year:
Mountain Honey Melon
Seeds from Redwood Seeds. Says it will give you 10 to 12 melons per vine and was developed for short seasons and cool nights.
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My melon germination has been abysmal this year. I barely have enough early moonbeam, crimson sweet, Charentais and some grocery seeds germinated to plant and will be direct sowing next week if still looking pathetic indoors. No idea what went wrong this year.
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I’ve had great results growing ambrosia melons here in Deep South La. We have extreme heat/humidity/disease pressure here and the ambrosia melons seem to love it. When the melon is ripe it separates from the vine on its own.
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Never grown them myself, but we used to get Ambrosia melons at the farmers market grown in the Sacramento delta. Hot but not humid out there. Delicious year after year
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has anyone grown “Nancy” melon? my friend came to help me start a few trays and i told her to pick anything from the warm crop box, she started a row and i have 2 or 3 very lovely 4 inch plants of these. i was given the seed and it’s the first time I’ll grow them.
2/2 I guess? I had two more rootstock pop up that I cut down. Bush Sugar Baby on Kabocha (from the store) rootstock. I’m thinking I’ll plant them in a 5G grow bag (it’s what I’ve got) with two ungrafted and compare results. I assume my growbag cococoir isn’t chock full of soil borne diseases and/or nematodes, but it has been outside for a year and a half, so who knows?
edit: To clarify, I’ll do two ungrafted plants in two separate 5G grow bags, and grafted in their own grow bag. May thin to one plant once they get established. Squirrels love to dig the #@%& out of my grow bags a few times before they leave them be. Always when there’s nothing there to steal.
Seeds from a Red Seedless watermelon from the store. Could it be tetraploid? Leaves are larger than my diploid and triploid seedlings, but I also have no idea what the triploid’s parent’s leaf sizes where.
I’ll try to self-pollinate one fruit and do a controlled cross with another. Probably Cream of Saskatchewan because I think White color is dominant and a seedless white watermelon would be cool. Assuming there’s two female flowers to work, etc.
If it produces early enough I’ll sow those this year, but it’ll probably be next year.
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I up-potted them.
18 x Bateekh Samara
7 x Desert King
1 x Zapotillo
Only 1 out of 5 Zapotillo seeds germinated, but that might be because of suboptimal temperatures. I have been struggling to keep them warm enough at night.
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I like Petite Gris for a great melon. I have a short season and from 3 plants I harvested 30 melons. They are small but the flavour and juice is excellent. I start my plants early but my neighbour just direct seeds and does get melons.
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I’m growing Petit Gris de Rennes for Glenn Drowns this year. I’ve grown it a few times over the years. It is a fairly good melon.
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Kiwano melon doesn’t fit in well with any topic, adding it here if that’s OK? My kiwanos have been showing signs of whatever this is. I was hoping it was cold damage since it’s been stupid cold at night, but I think it’s disease as one is still in a quart and has been shuffling indoors for evenings below 50. Very annoying they haven’t been in humidity or rain - intense drought. This one was up potted to 10g a bit ago and perhaps needs better draining soil; I made a heavy mix of mostly compost and sand. I’m not convinced that’s the problem as my second one is also diseased yet still in its quart pot on the dry side.
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The watermelon? It will be my first year growing Nancy watermelons this year.
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As soon as I get caught up a little bit I’ll sow my melons. Regular melons and watermelons this year.
Last year I grew cantaloupes/muskmelons really close together and had a lot of duds that never ripened melons, or made melons with mush texture and no sweetness. We had a very wet May-July 2025. Most of my crop came from Sensation F1 and Margie’s Melon. Sugar Cube F1 and a few other varieties I couldn’t keep track of made good melons. Moonstruck F1 also made good melons but I am not a huge honeydew guy. You can harvest Moonstruck when you lift the melon and it pops off the vine just like a muskmelon.
I have about half the watermelon varieties I want. The other half I will grow another season. My goal is to have my own landrace first and then select toward diploids with less seediness, so they are close to the sparsely but definitely seeded seedless watermelons that typically show up at stores now. (Seedless used to be seedless).
Here’s my current inventory.
- Nancy
- Strawberry
- La Bestia
- Sangria
- Jubilee
- Quetzali
- Crimson Sweet
- Wilson Sweet
- Ali Baba
- Diana
- Orange Tendersweet
- OrangeGlo
- New Orchid
- Moon & Stars Yellow Flesh
- Renick Yellow
Still figuring out space for everything.
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Moonstruck F1 Honeydew did well for me last year. 7” of rain in May, 7” of rain in June, 7” of rain in July. August was not very wet but it was cool. It is not the most sweet as far as sugar goes but not a total dud like some of my muskmelons became.
Sensation F1 is a white flesh muskmelon that I liked. It died early from anthracnose but produced a lot of fruit before that.
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Interesting. Moonstruck didn’t get engulfed in powdery mildew?
I never saw powdery mildew last year so I can’t comment. I don’t know why I never saw it, I’ve seen it in other years. My main issues with the rain were fruit cracking, fruit rotting, fruit being mushy and flavorless. Bacterial wilt can also be an issue for me. There are so many cucumber beetles here.
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i handle powdery mildew relatively easy on my plants by just blasting them with the hose in the morning. it knocks off the mildew and it just dies.
Nervous about this season. I’ve never planted so late, and while today was my FINALLY day for most of my melons, Monday night keeps getting colder and colder. I think my front yard ones will go in but my backyard frost pocket ones have to wait until after Mother’s Day, which is insane. I still have to direct sow a bunch As well. These are going to be late melons.
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Snow Leopard F1- I planted fifteen seeds this year, two came up. Fresh order of seeds from Johhny seeds. Anyone else tried or had a problem with this particular melon?
The Centerpoint canteloupe(muskmelon), Piel de Sapo, white Lanzhou honeydew, and Kazakah honeydew are all up and germinated. 
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