That is was I figured but too bad right?!?
Wish they existed.
I grow Montreal Melon in zone 3 [85 days]. Itās very delicious.
Iām not sure what your melon goals are, but maybe try some different varieties that people have used in your zone 8 area.
I will check that out thank you
I am going to try Blacktail Mountain watermelon and Noir Des Carmes Melon this year.
Last year sugar baby bush had way too many seeds and we didnāt get very far on Madhu ras and petite Gris de Rennes.
I will likely try some of those again.
I am sure my spelling is of; Iām too tired to go look up everything.
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Iām pretty sure that very seedy small melons have the regular amount of seeds, thereās just not as much melon.
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It depends on the variety actually. Some smaller melons have less seeds and more meat, some with bigger cavities, less meat and more seeds, and some have big cavities/ less seeds/ less meat, and then there are the golden ones with small cavities, lots of flesh, very little seeds
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I mean if you have a stunted fruit and/or plant. Last year I had a few that matured way smaller than normal and they seemed to have the same amount of seeds as a normal sized one of the same variety, but there was only 25% as much flesh as their should have been. So they were mostly seeds and awful.
I wouldnāt call it stunted fruit because some are actually bred to be small and arenāt just small by natural defects.
Thereās a whole line of watermelon and cantaloupe type melons that would naturally make smaller fruit. Like you canāt say a small cherry Plum is a stunted plum altogether because cherry plums are specifically bred to be slightly smaller and more large cherry sized than full sized-plum size if that makes sense.
The melon varieties i select and grow arenāt stunted plants but instead, bred to be small in general. Thereās not supposed to be extra large ones of said fruit on the vine, theyāre all meant to be small. Not everyone wants a giant fruit. I canāt finish a standard grocery store melon by myself and i donāt want to waste food so i go for the smaller one person sized varieties. Plus they ripen quicker, easier to trellis, and just my size 
i donāt have to worry about it not tasting good in a few days cause i can eat two a sitting and one vine can produce one a day for a month or more when happy.
My best melon year was my first year in Colorado Springs when there was little to no hail. I was able to get a harvest from the end of June until about sometime in September. I started indoors and protected them up until the middle of May though
I donāt mean the small āiceboxā watermelons, those are fine. I mean a root bound or otherwise troubled plant that should produce 15lbs watermelons that instead produced 5lbs ones. I havenāt had it happen a lot, but the undersized melons seemed to have the same amount of seed and only 1/4 the normal amount of flesh. The ones that ripened tasted OK, but were ludicrously, densely seedy.