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GIving up on Savor
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Posted by
ltilton 5 (
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Fri, Sep 5, 14 at 12:38
| Savor is definitely the best Charentais melon variety, but I'm giving up on it. Every fruit on my vines has burst wide open after recent heavy rains. Escorial is earlier, isn't cracking and has the bonus of resisting powdery mildew, although this hasn't been a problem yet this year. Escorial may not be a pureblooded Charentais, but I get to eat them, unlike Savor, from which I won't get an edible melon this year. |
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RE: GIving up on Savor
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| I only tried growing Charentais once, and gave up after field mice hollowed each and every melon out from underneath and left me empty shells to harvest :( |
RE: GIving up on Savor
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| And they don't do this with ordinary cantaloupes?? |
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- Posted by glib 5.5 (My Page) on
Fri, Sep 5, 14 at 19:35
| You have to put each melon on a brick. But I understand that for a market grower it is not doable. |
RE: GIving up on Savor
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| I trapped 2 mice/voles in one cantaloupe plant...that stopped the eating on the young green ones. |
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| I grow mine on black plastic, haven't had that particular pest problem. |
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| Did they burst before ripening? I had good luck with both them and Escorial this summer, both are quite delicious. Savor has a bit more interest to the flavor, but Escorial is very close. I managed to have little to no bursting by picking at the first hint of yellow in an evening inspection- they turn and split overnight if you ignore that for a single day! Last year was a bust for my melons due to heavy, persistant rains while the melons were ripening- the flavor was so watered down they tasted terrible and unsweet. Not every year is a good melon year. |
RE: GIving up on Savor
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| Savor did burst unripe, yes. So did a few of my Galia type melons, which went bright yellow before netting up. We got a flooding rain that really did a number on my garden. Definitely not a good melon year after that, but Escorial held up better than Savor. I lost one good melon before the bursting started when I decided it might not be turned enough or fragrant. Next morning, it was neatly taken from the vine by, I suspect, the giant raccoon. |
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