You leave the impression that there are a few places with the seed. if so, buy from one of them.

Willhite Seed used to carry it, but doesn't anymore. Perhaps not enough was sold, and they wanted to add some new ones.

I have raised AU Sweet Scarlet and it was fairly good, but I prefer Raspa from Willhite.

AU Producer is a better melon than Sweet Scarlet. I'd stick with it, and I've grown both of them.

Wayne. Good point. Poor wording on my part... I should have typed "not finding any"... Also, thanks to both of you on the performance and on alternative cultivars to try.

I have not tried Auburn university to see if they have a group that continues older varieties, I have grown three of the 4 they developed. Au Producer, Golden Au Producer and Au Sweet Scarlet. Was going to trial Au Jubilant but Willhite discontinued it before I got around to it. Sweet Scarlet was my favorite. Really could not determine that Au Producer did anything better than Crinson Sweet. Same was true with The yellow fleshed producer versus the Yellow Crimson. Sweet Scarlet was unique and did not imitate any variety that I am aware of. I trial some hybrids but so far have not found any apprecailbly better than their OP counterparts. Most imitate Crimson Sweet, Allsweet, Charleston Grey or Jubilee.

If you'd like to try a REALLY good melon, better than anything mentioned so far, try Big Stripe. Wilhites sells it.