How long does it take for a watermelon to harvest after a flower appears?
It depends on the variety of melon, and where you live whether you will get anything or not. If you live in the north, there probably will not be enough hot weather left for melons to grow and ripen before frost kills them. If you live in the south, there might be achance. You need to take a good look at the flowers as they come out. If they have little bulges at the base where it joins the stem, it is a female flower. If it doesn't, it is a male flower. If you want melons from the vine, you have to have both types of flowers growing and bees, butterflies or moths to spread the pollen. If all of the flowers are either male or female, you will not get any fruit.
How should I grow my watermelons?
Lots of sunlight. Like a field with no buildings or trees around it. Your soil amending is OK from what I can read but fruit and vegetables usually need six plus hours of sunlight. As far as root stimulator you are better of with superthrive. Superthrive is a hormone product. Just a few drops like it's directions say. You may get a lot of watermelon vine and very little watermelons without eight plus hours of sunlight. What you plant is based on where you live. Is the soil acidic or alkaline ect. Is there enough light and so forth. I'm a gardener in West Texas
Julie harvested three watermelons from her garden.?
A+B+C = 24 A=B+C C = (A+B)/4 -1 sub A for (B+C) in the first equation A+A = 24 A=12 so, 12=B+C. C=12-B 12-B=(12+B)/4-1 48-4B=12+B-4 40 = 5B B=8 C=4 The 3 weights are 12, 8, and 4 pounds.
How much does a watermelon cost in tokyo?
A black jumbo watermelon auctioned in northern Japan fetched a record $6,100 Friday, making it the most expensive watermelon ever sold in the country - and possibly the world. The 17-pound premium Densuke watermelon, one of only 65 from the first harvest of the season, was purchased by a marine products dealer who said he wanted to support local agriculture, according to Kyodo News agency. The fruit is grown only on the northern island of Hokkaido. In a country where melons are a luxury item commonly given as gifts, the watermelon's hefty price tag follows another jaw-dropping auction last month, where a pair of Yubari cantaloupe melons sold for a record $23,500. But for watermelon, Friday's winning bid drew a gasp even from veterans of the expensive-fruit market. "This is the highest price on record for a Densuke watermelon, and that probably means it's the highest of any watermelon in Japanese history," said Kazuyoshi Ohira, a spokesman for the Tohma Agricultural Cooperative in Hokkaido. Growers expect to produce about 9,000 Densuke watermelons this year, Ohira said. For seasonal, high-end fruits like the Densuke watermelon and the Yubari cantaloupes, Japanese buyers are often willing to pay top prices at auction for the prestige of owning the very first ones of the year. Unseasonably warm weather in April and May have helped boost sugar content and overall quality, and consequently prices, of the 2008 watermelons, Ohira said. It's a watermelon, but it's not the same. It has a different level of sweetness. Kazuyoshi Ohira, Tohma Agricultural Cooperative The biggest watermelon of the day departed for Tokyo immediately after the auction in Asahikawa city. By midafternoon Friday, the 24-pounder had traveled some 500 miles south to Isetan, an upscale department store in the capital, where it went on sale for $5,945. Other Densuke watermelons won't cost quite as much. Most will retail at department stores and supermarkets for a more modest $188 to $283, Ohira said. And what makes a watermelon worth $200, much less $6,000? Its unusual black skin, Ohira said. Inside, the watermelon is crisp and hard. And, he says, it has unparalleled taste. "It's a watermelon, but it's not the same," he said. "It has a different level of sweetness." Jun Otsuki, a spokesman for Guinness World Records' Tokyo office, said his organization does not keep records of any sort on watermelons.
Watermelon growing? ?
Are you actually IN Las Vegas? I am. Fall is the wrong season for watermelon. Kale, carrots, beets, collard, chard, turnips, parsnips, any lettuce, eggplant, a variety of squashes - but they have to be planted FAR apart or you won't get fruit. Those are our fall plants. I'm contemplating a late start on small heirloom pumpkins. You need to plant watermelon in the spring for a summer harvest.
How long does it take a watermelon to grow?
Much depends on what cultivar (variety) of watermelon grown and what the climate is like.Watermelons take close to 3 months (85 days for the earliest variety to 100 days for most) for the first fruits to be ready. Seeds can be directly sown when the soil is warm (seeds will otherwise can rot in cool soil) or started a couple of weeks early in 3 inch peat pots with sterile soil for transplanting when soil is warm and there's no danger of frost.Something to bear in mind - if the growing season (i.e. frost free days and nights) is 4 months long, a person would assume there was lots of time to grow a good crop. But if the summers were normally mild with frequent cloudy days, the plants will grow and mature slower.Watermelons are basically tropical plants and love heat and sun as long as they get sufficient water. As someone who's gardened in a region that barely had 3 months frost-free and also in a region that often has 5 or more months frost-free, I was surprised at how fast garden plants grew in those 3 months. I found that many vegetables were ready for harvest due to the long hot sunny days as compared to the region where I live now where summers are much cooler though the frost-free period is longer.So what cultivar is chosen, whether direct sown or transplant is done and what the summer weather is like makes a big difference.
Can you grow watermelon in ireland?
If you start very early in the growing season. Watermelon needs several months of very warm weather to grow well.
How much do you need to water watermelons?
As others have noted, unfortunately there won't be a cookie-cutter answer to this one question. As has been noted, there are too many variables.My father had 20 or so acres he farmed as a hobby after retirement(soil scientist as a career), one of his higher priority hobbies was to commit 2 or 3 acres just for watermelons. His whole goal was to get the largest, sweetest watermelon he could--- all the acres were really just for one or two watermelons. At harvest, he had a couple of churches that came to pick what they wanted for charity/selling, my younger sisters sometimes would haul a pickup load into town and sell them for a few dollars. Needless to say, he treated it like a science, I remember a few of his hints.1. Always moist, never waterlogged WAS NOT the best for watermelons. Watermelons liked sandier yet fertile soil and very warm weather. Best according to him was very strategic watering, with periodic heavy watering at periodic intervals to allow the soil to be somewhat dry between, but not to the point where water deprivation caused wilting. Continuously damp would often mean root rot.2. He believed that the single biggest mistake affecting taste was too much water. Excess water created flavorless melons.