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| so I have about nine sugar baby watermelon that have the signs of being ready soon (yellow soil spot, dried tendril) and so to determine if they would indeed be ready soon, i picked one of the older watermelon that had been on the vine a couple weeks before the others this watermelon always confused me....it's tendril had been dried off for maybe a couple weeks but it never developed a yellow soil spot, so i figured i needed to let it take in more water. well even today when i picked it it still only had a brighter color of green on the bottom instead of yellow....it never got heavy but i picked it anyway because i knew i needed to see what was going on so that i could also judge my other watermelons when i opened this one, it was a light pink inside and the white rind around it was very thick. so i thought "ahh maybe i should have let it stay on the vine even longer" but then i started eating it. it was stringy and mealy like a watermelon that should have been harvested a long time ago. it was still sweet and yummy, but stringy and mealy so all it did was confuse me more on whether my other watermelons that are showing the "ripe" signs are ready or not. so i'm wondering if it was over ripe and it was just a light pink with a thick rind because it was just a dud of a melon? plus when it first started growing, something had chewed a little hole into the side of it. it healed, and the outside had no discoloration or signs of sickness, so i let it keep growing. i wonder since it had a hole chewed through it and it caused the melon to deform in shape, maybe that might be why the rind was so thick? i have no idea LOL any input would be very appreciated. thanks! |
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| My experience is a melon with dried tendril is ripe. I almost never pick one using that indicator that is under ripe but the last couple yrs many have been over ripe. My suggestion is try more with dried tendril. I think you'll find them ripe but YMMV. |
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| I think you had an abnormal melon that might have been effected by the hole that had been chewed into it. I always look for a dull sheen on the outside and ALL of the nearby tendrils brown and dead. Not just one. The first melon of the season is always the hardest one to judge. It's kind of like a sacrificial melon. |
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- Posted by 2010ChampsBCS 7B St Clair Co (My Page) on Sun, Jun 22, 14 at 19:44
| A good thumper can detect a sound difference between ripe and unripe watermelons. |
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