that is a yellow melon variety !!. i bought watermelon seedling and got a surprise when i had a closer look at the tag. there is a yellow variety of melons available from buntings in australia.
I am going to give watermelons a shot next summer. I use heirloom varieties and I saw an orange variety in the catalog I am going to try. I know here in the US, different varieties do better in different parts of the US. Since I am in the south, just about every variety does well, but the proof will be the in the finished product. Don't give up on the watermelons, give it another try, it's worth it.
I hear ya mate... I grew em once before too, feeding em fish fertilizer and they ended up tasting like bloody fish. so theres my mistake in gardening. Too funny ey. cheers tp
if you had like the seedless type, the males of that type are well not that good to eat, the females have the red and the white seeds. Not sure if you eat those type thou. I want to know if i can grow a plant 100% indoors and never take it outside seeing its kinda late in the season and i have a packet of seeds from last spring i never planted.
Dude that is a yellow watermelon quite delicious and not as common as your pink variety but are sweeter and usually have less seeds. Awesome flavour mate enjoy. They are ripe this is a normal yellow watermelon variety.
you have a yellow fleshed watermelon, dont expect them to get red, red does not mean ripe if you have yellow melon. Keep up the good work. one tip, press down on them firmly while on the vine, if you hear a cracking sound it is ripe. Go ahead and pick it.
I notice if there is too much grass or mulch on or around the grown the grass hold the moisture it makes the watermelon start to rot on the bottom before it is ready to ripe.I usually build a mound and plant the seeds,they seem to grow better like that.you need an area that they can grow just on the ground with not grass or mulch.they need the air circulation, and water as needed .Hopes this helps.
feel ur pain...after a great success last year , just picked one with a totally dead feely-stem and it wasnt quite ripe...got another that is starting to show yellow patches on the skin, getting uniform color, and cracks when u press on it..but the feely stem is green as grass....arrrg!
Plug it ~ cut about 1 1/2 x 1 1/2" about 2 - 2 1/2" deep plug to a point I> with a thin bladed knife, take plug out look at it then put plug back in and let grow more of needed, it's called pluging.
I have had success and failures in the garden over the years but even in the failures you learn something. Cut them up and toss them into the compost pile and strike it up to why we often don't waste garden energy and food supply on wild volunteer veggies. Not that I haven't mind you; I do it every year! Well, off to check my own crop I have seven melons from 5 plants, not bad for my part of the world.
We have a fruit here in Florida that grows in the orange groves called a cisterine (citrus melon) or something like that and I believe you might have one of those growing in your garden. You can't eat it and it looks like what you have there mate, so I don't believe you have a watermelon. I've cut open some of these citrus melons and they look inside just like what yours looked like inside. Just thought I'd send this information.
I feel your pain. I have been growing smallish tasteless watermelons for the past few years. This year, I started the seeds earlier and will put them out later.
Great video. I have planted my first Watermelons in Canada. I started them in a pot for 5 weeks first and just last week put them out. I hope mine work out! By the way, I love Yellow Watermelons I lived in Asia for a few years and thats all I ever ate. They're great, I'll grow yellow ones next year
The white solid flesh is grown that way. the watermelon is ripe It has been grown to make preserves and sweetmeats that are added to fruitcakes, cookies, and puddings.
Its all about trial and error. If you plant them as soon as the heat hits they will progress faster. I always plant mine in the beginning of April. But that is in the California central valley.
oohhhhhhhhhh...yellow! i was excited to see red. just don't loose hope man, try next time. plenty of good comments and suggestion for you and me to follow.
There is nothing wrong with that watermelon at all. Not all watermelons have red flesh. This is one of the orange or yellow flesh verities you mentioned in the video. Some people like these kind but most people prefer the red flesh colored watermelons. They are the most popular and the best sellers. You just have a rare breed of watermelon there that's all. Change the seeds next season and you will get what you are looking for. Good luck!
The reason your watermelon did'ent ripen was it could'ent. From what I saw you grew it right.
The plant you found growing was a volunteer from your compost ,that came from a store bought melon. Almost all store bought melons are hybrids and their seeds can not be grown true to type.{found plant} .
Next year plant some fresh seed perferable an Heriloon type {can save seeds from} Plant after your last frost date. Jon
it could be a watermelon cross<< im not sure if you know but i know apples when you plant the seed there is only a 1 to a million chance that you will have a sweet apple when the apples finely come about seven years later. what may have happened was when your watermelon seeds mother plant was in flower it could have crossed with another kind of melon with different genes producing seeds with the genitic code to produce your watermelons you got.
Yip know that feeling, I had a stink harvest last year/Feb 09 - think I got too confident and didn't check the garden enough, was so disappointed when the corn didn't do anything. Come on Summer 09/10 harvest!
LOL at peoples never ending quest to farm watermelons.
To grow watermelons succesfully (as a rule ) :
1. At least an acre of ground
2. ALWAYS plant from seed (never transplant)
3. You MUST have BEEHIVES close by. on a large scale you MUST lease BEEHIVES from a local source and place them at the outer edges of your garden. Bees dont generally like watermelon flowers, so you MUST make it EASY for them to collect pollen.
We had the same problem,(never ripened) damned watermellons only exist to humilliate me and besides they are too big! Give me cantalope or give me death!!
lol,They look real nice your melons do they did last season too.You will get it find an old farmer round there and hangout with em some later.Watch screen name msmosstexas video watermelon know how.Thanks for reposting the conclusion vid did u try the pine needle on top of the melon snd if the needle turns half way its done hahaha
oops did you polinate them or did the bugs cross with squash or pumpkin ? I know I won't be successful this year mine are just starting now and they are the size of very small peas in zone 3 no chance for them its the second week of august I will see frozen tennis ball sized melons in about a month to month and a half .
Too bad about the seasons changing, we are just heading back towards spring, so soon it will be my chance to redeem myself and grow some monster watermelons!
I was told use heat mat, they germinate in really really warm temps. 95 degrees i think. and plant 6-8 weeks early when you have a short growing season. i asked alot of questions and this is what i was told hope it helps you.
hey at least you can get the plant to grow i planted 6 seeds about 6 weeks ago and the plant is still a idk what it is but it have like 8 leaves and theres still no water melon :/
Hi, in the first video I thought I saw a squash. If you plant Watermelon and squash in the same bed, they can cross pollinate. The end results is the fruit doesn't turn red and has a squash taste sort of. There are also varietys of green melons called honey dews and my grandfather use to plant yellow mellons as well, but they were sweet and ripened like regular melons. It looks as if yours may have crossed with the squash.
This is why I always start from fresh organic seeds. (seeds of change) Otherwise you have no idea what you will end up with. Looks like you had fun but it's hard to learn when you don't have much info on the seeds. Please check my growing vids. I'll post more this week.
I notice you have the same watermelons that grows in Taiwan, they have both red and yellow melons, known as Little Jade Watermelons. This variety that happen to grown in your garden will always be the same even after few weeks. The taste is slightly different. I hope this helps.
looks like you have a child of an F1 hybrid there. as said previously, they're not going to give you a true-to-type since the fruit are from two pure lines. i doubt it's a cross of a squash and a melon. possible but doubtful, judging by the look of the fruit. anyway, good on you, my friend. let us know how you fair next year when you try watermelons from good seed! cheerio.
Thanks for the feedback, yeah I definately agree with you and that I ended up with some wierd hybrid. Anyway, next year I will definately plant fresh watermelon seeds, just to prove that I can grow nice fruit! check out my grapefruit video to see some real produce from my garden!
It looks like a Squash. You must have grown some kind of Hybrid Watersquash. Your watermelon got polinated by a Squash. You need a horticulturist to identify it and then you should register it under the Kiyafarm Watersquash strain. =)
Great video! I tried watermelon last year and they didn't come out. I guess I don't have the magic touch with the ol' melons. I'll try again this year!
I think Jackie French would say to eat them if they are not bitter. I've grown the 'Golden Midget' variety from Diggers in Tasmania and still picked one green (you can tell they are ripe because they turn golden)... I felt like a complete tool - its pretty much the only thing on the seed packet...
The melon the seeds came from may have been that of a hybrid variety not giving you a true copy of the parent plant, a close copy but not exact. most seeds from hybrids won't produce properly if you want to save your own seeds year to year buy only hairloom seeds or plant starts
Thanks for the feedback, I've read about hybrid varieties not being true to type as you suggest, that could well explain it! I've only got two melons left on the vine so I am interested to see if they ever actually ripen.
Thanks slack, I could probably do with some age reversal! Maybe I'll just go back to lookin' for watermelons on the footpath! Thanks for watchin man. PS. I love your latest vid's, makin' music by editiing video, really cool technique.
that is a yellow melon variety !!. i bought watermelon seedling and got a surprise when i had a closer look at the tag. there is a yellow variety of melons available from buntings in australia.
alpertdon 2 months ago
@alpertdon I agree, that looks like a "Yellow Doll" watermelon. The flesh is yellow and it taste super sweet and good.
Magnolia4153 2 days ago in playlist How to grow some big watermelons.
I am going to give watermelons a shot next summer. I use heirloom varieties and I saw an orange variety in the catalog I am going to try. I know here in the US, different varieties do better in different parts of the US. Since I am in the south, just about every variety does well, but the proof will be the in the finished product. Don't give up on the watermelons, give it another try, it's worth it.
wansbek1968 2 months ago
I hear ya mate... I grew em once before too, feeding em fish fertilizer and they ended up tasting like bloody fish. so theres my mistake in gardening. Too funny ey. cheers tp
tompaultompaul 3 months ago
if you had like the seedless type, the males of that type are well not that good to eat, the females have the red and the white seeds. Not sure if you eat those type thou. I want to know if i can grow a plant 100% indoors and never take it outside seeing its kinda late in the season and i have a packet of seeds from last spring i never planted.
tara37830 5 months ago in playlist Organic Veggies
My watermelons are only the size of fists, they are rottening. Getting black spots on them. Why is that and is there anything I can do about them.
mrsbiscuitt 5 months ago
Dude that is a yellow watermelon quite delicious and not as common as your pink variety but are sweeter and usually have less seeds. Awesome flavour mate enjoy. They are ripe this is a normal yellow watermelon variety.
ocbc1975 11 months ago 3
you have a yellow fleshed watermelon, dont expect them to get red, red does not mean ripe if you have yellow melon. Keep up the good work. one tip, press down on them firmly while on the vine, if you hear a cracking sound it is ripe. Go ahead and pick it.
dochawk08 11 months ago
when you put a knife in the watermelon and it crackes it is ripe
joseluisflores45 1 year ago
I notice if there is too much grass or mulch on or around the grown the grass hold the moisture it makes the watermelon start to rot on the bottom before it is ready to ripe.I usually build a mound and plant the seeds,they seem to grow better like that.you need an area that they can grow just on the ground with not grass or mulch.they need the air circulation, and water as needed .Hopes this helps.
watercopper 1 year ago
Dude! that looks just like a normal yellow watermelon! delicious..
financialmercer1 1 year ago
feel ur pain...after a great success last year , just picked one with a totally dead feely-stem and it wasnt quite ripe...got another that is starting to show yellow patches on the skin, getting uniform color, and cracks when u press on it..but the feely stem is green as grass....arrrg!
asedcopf 1 year ago
not enough water. sorry mate.
huronhorde 1 year ago
Maybe turn them every few days so they don't go yellow?
muderousegg 1 year ago
There are yellow watermelon varieties - just taste it. But it's been over a year now so I guess that's not an option.
masm60 1 year ago
It's a yellow watermelon it's supposed to look like that!!!!!!!
GAGALOVER347 1 year ago
My sympathies -- I have the same bloody problem with my cantaloupes, which came out the size of baseballs.
hjones1 1 year ago
in oder to tell that is ripe you need to see that the steam is brown
racheleaston43 1 year ago
your passion is great man, keep it up!!
usernamemikisok 1 year ago
it seems to me likes this guy's never cut a watermelon bfore he's havin such a hard time
TOPTENoscariglesias 1 year ago
Plug it ~ cut about 1 1/2 x 1 1/2" about 2 - 2 1/2" deep plug to a point I> with a thin bladed knife, take plug out look at it then put plug back in and let grow more of needed, it's called pluging.
SpikenAL 1 year ago
I have had success and failures in the garden over the years but even in the failures you learn something. Cut them up and toss them into the compost pile and strike it up to why we often don't waste garden energy and food supply on wild volunteer veggies. Not that I haven't mind you; I do it every year! Well, off to check my own crop I have seven melons from 5 plants, not bad for my part of the world.
Maeven6 1 year ago
thats seems to be a yellow water melon maybe victim on climate change i myself had to start planting a little later to deal with the high heat
ntoyou 1 year ago
Hello Kiyafarm,
We have a fruit here in Florida that grows in the orange groves called a cisterine (citrus melon) or something like that and I believe you might have one of those growing in your garden. You can't eat it and it looks like what you have there mate, so I don't believe you have a watermelon. I've cut open some of these citrus melons and they look inside just like what yours looked like inside. Just thought I'd send this information.
poky228 1 year ago
I feel your pain. I have been growing smallish tasteless watermelons for the past few years. This year, I started the seeds earlier and will put them out later.
noaa2337 1 year ago
Great video. I have planted my first Watermelons in Canada. I started them in a pot for 5 weeks first and just last week put them out. I hope mine work out! By the way, I love Yellow Watermelons I lived in Asia for a few years and thats all I ever ate. They're great, I'll grow yellow ones next year
trek26ca 1 year ago
seed companys messed up the seeds, so you got to buy from them
tseptember 1 year ago
it dose not mater as long as you tryed
greenpanther951 1 year ago
omg this guy is too cute!
dindins75 1 year ago
wow ! my seed are from localharvestdotorg sunny days farm. Ihope i can grow one that big
xrayzulu51 1 year ago
You seem to have a yellow meat watermelon. They are delicious and are usually very sweet.
unique1815 1 year ago
damn cucumbers will cross with lots of squash or melons,
slowpokebr549 1 year ago
they do have different variety of water melons...i grow tsuka (i think) they came from japan, they have white meat and taste a little like peaches
roskoeheat 1 year ago
The thing is I found this video more informative than the videos with success. Thanks kiyafarm. Good luck in the future.
maddcatone 1 year ago
those r the yellow flesh variety
daicat 1 year ago
The white solid flesh is grown that way. the watermelon is ripe It has been grown to make preserves and sweetmeats that are added to fruitcakes, cookies, and puddings.
MariaMayhem1 1 year ago
Its all about trial and error. If you plant them as soon as the heat hits they will progress faster. I always plant mine in the beginning of April. But that is in the California central valley.
enchantedsb 1 year ago
You did great. Your watermelon is ripe. You just have the yellow kind of water melon.
oooppsitsme 1 year ago
..........its amazing how exited you can get waiting to see if its ripe:S
irish420Hitman 2 years ago 7
They're are several yellow watermelons like new Queen orchid sweet and yellow doll
nandd100 2 years ago
that is already ripe, it's just the yellow variety.
and notice the seeds..they're already big and dark so it means it's already ripe.
abcharmed 2 years ago
life is short, edit about four minutes
jerbear54 2 years ago
oohhhhhhhhhh...yellow! i was excited to see red. just don't loose hope man, try next time. plenty of good comments and suggestion for you and me to follow.
mikebanawa 2 years ago
There is nothing wrong with that watermelon at all. Not all watermelons have red flesh. This is one of the orange or yellow flesh verities you mentioned in the video. Some people like these kind but most people prefer the red flesh colored watermelons. They are the most popular and the best sellers. You just have a rare breed of watermelon there that's all. Change the seeds next season and you will get what you are looking for. Good luck!
gary5209 2 years ago
There's nothing wrong with that melon man. That's my favorite kind. Send me some seeds!
pamelawalker1 1 year ago
Hello,
The reason your watermelon did'ent ripen was it could'ent. From what I saw you grew it right.
The plant you found growing was a volunteer from your compost ,that came from a store bought melon. Almost all store bought melons are hybrids and their seeds can not be grown true to type.{found plant} .
Next year plant some fresh seed perferable an Heriloon type {can save seeds from} Plant after your last frost date. Jon
yooperjon66 2 years ago
it could be a watermelon cross<< im not sure if you know but i know apples when you plant the seed there is only a 1 to a million chance that you will have a sweet apple when the apples finely come about seven years later. what may have happened was when your watermelon seeds mother plant was in flower it could have crossed with another kind of melon with different genes producing seeds with the genitic code to produce your watermelons you got.
Mjb3914 2 years ago
Yip know that feeling, I had a stink harvest last year/Feb 09 - think I got too confident and didn't check the garden enough, was so disappointed when the corn didn't do anything. Come on Summer 09/10 harvest!
galaxydreaming 2 years ago
LOL at peoples never ending quest to farm watermelons.
To grow watermelons succesfully (as a rule ) :
1. At least an acre of ground
2. ALWAYS plant from seed (never transplant)
3. You MUST have BEEHIVES close by. on a large scale you MUST lease BEEHIVES from a local source and place them at the outer edges of your garden. Bees dont generally like watermelon flowers, so you MUST make it EASY for them to collect pollen.
4.WATER during the rapid growth stage HEAVILY.
cobraschlange 2 years ago
this is just one more good reason to live out in the country, or at least some place with enough yard to raise vegetables and flowers.
stybarrow 2 years ago
my uncle used to grow the yellow ones in sth est qld he called them champagne melons
smelmore 2 years ago
We had the same problem,(never ripened) damned watermellons only exist to humilliate me and besides they are too big! Give me cantalope or give me death!!
ehswan 2 years ago
ur never ripe mine ripe but small like basebal.. =='' maybe forget to water it lately lol
JUZKILL 2 years ago
could be a cross breed of water melon and punkin.
chuyville1 2 years ago
lol,They look real nice your melons do they did last season too.You will get it find an old farmer round there and hangout with em some later.Watch screen name msmosstexas video watermelon know how.Thanks for reposting the conclusion vid did u try the pine needle on top of the melon snd if the needle turns half way its done hahaha
lakefisher123 2 years ago
Thanks for your vids. I enjoyed them.
sdvma 2 years ago
i watched this video yesterday..then last night i had a dream your watermelons finally ripened. (Totally weird) haha
naomi2289 2 years ago
oops did you polinate them or did the bugs cross with squash or pumpkin ? I know I won't be successful this year mine are just starting now and they are the size of very small peas in zone 3 no chance for them its the second week of august I will see frozen tennis ball sized melons in about a month to month and a half .
bobboberan 2 years ago
Too bad about the seasons changing, we are just heading back towards spring, so soon it will be my chance to redeem myself and grow some monster watermelons!
kiyafarm 2 years ago 2
oops I forgot about that lol its not always easy remembering the different climates around the world good luck and show them off when they are huge .
bobboberan 2 years ago
I was told use heat mat, they germinate in really really warm temps. 95 degrees i think. and plant 6-8 weeks early when you have a short growing season. i asked alot of questions and this is what i was told hope it helps you.
niffer58 2 years ago
@kiyafarm Yellow watermelon? I need to try that never eaten one of those.
TonyFirelli 1 year ago
80 Days Maturity.. Crimson Sweet
~KBMG~
KBMusicGroup 2 years ago
hey at least you can get the plant to grow i planted 6 seeds about 6 weeks ago and the plant is still a idk what it is but it have like 8 leaves and theres still no water melon :/
zune345 2 years ago
I grow yellow doll watermelons they only get 5 to 9 pounds, and you can tell when they're ripe by knocking on them they get a hollow sound.
Check out my videos I'll have a new one out soon showing my patch so far this year.
will2dmax 2 years ago
texas has yellow watermelons its its own breed of watermelon thats what i have in my garden
Jessmarie122183 2 years ago
Hi, in the first video I thought I saw a squash. If you plant Watermelon and squash in the same bed, they can cross pollinate. The end results is the fruit doesn't turn red and has a squash taste sort of. There are also varietys of green melons called honey dews and my grandfather use to plant yellow mellons as well, but they were sweet and ripened like regular melons. It looks as if yours may have crossed with the squash.
sticknureye 2 years ago
honey dew is great its extremely sweet and moist
Kruelvillethewest 2 years ago
This is why I always start from fresh organic seeds. (seeds of change) Otherwise you have no idea what you will end up with. Looks like you had fun but it's hard to learn when you don't have much info on the seeds. Please check my growing vids. I'll post more this week.
MaJahBlak 2 years ago
I notice you have the same watermelons that grows in Taiwan, they have both red and yellow melons, known as Little Jade Watermelons. This variety that happen to grown in your garden will always be the same even after few weeks. The taste is slightly different. I hope this helps.
RaymondBriggs666 2 years ago
will watermelons grow in georgia
herp94 2 years ago
looks like you have a child of an F1 hybrid there. as said previously, they're not going to give you a true-to-type since the fruit are from two pure lines. i doubt it's a cross of a squash and a melon. possible but doubtful, judging by the look of the fruit. anyway, good on you, my friend. let us know how you fair next year when you try watermelons from good seed! cheerio.
palui 2 years ago 3
Thanks for the feedback, yeah I definately agree with you and that I ended up with some wierd hybrid. Anyway, next year I will definately plant fresh watermelon seeds, just to prove that I can grow nice fruit! check out my grapefruit video to see some real produce from my garden!
kiyafarm 2 years ago
Yeah you should plant heirloom species and save your seeds, can't go wrong that way
logos2600 2 years ago
i heard about watermelons that are yellow inside and they are supposed to be jucier so it is good to eat
410404 2 years ago
mannnn ;(
FelipeSparx29 2 years ago
It's a fruit....not a vegetable. You tried.
GradyWhite2007 2 years ago
It looks like a Squash. You must have grown some kind of Hybrid Watersquash. Your watermelon got polinated by a Squash. You need a horticulturist to identify it and then you should register it under the Kiyafarm Watersquash strain. =)
inkstains1 2 years ago 2
nice kitchen mate
LILNATE650 2 years ago
Great video! I tried watermelon last year and they didn't come out. I guess I don't have the magic touch with the ol' melons. I'll try again this year!
stepherz76 2 years ago
I think Jackie French would say to eat them if they are not bitter. I've grown the 'Golden Midget' variety from Diggers in Tasmania and still picked one green (you can tell they are ripe because they turn golden)... I felt like a complete tool - its pretty much the only thing on the seed packet...
Noz7777 2 years ago 3
Have you guys heard of seeds being engineered so that seeds grown inside the fruit can no longer reproduce? Can you guys give me some feed back?
eddie68000 2 years ago
@eddie68000: Yes, of course. That would be Monsanto Terminator Seed technology. Look up those three words. A disgrace to humankind.
Marcoosianism 7 months ago
The melon the seeds came from may have been that of a hybrid variety not giving you a true copy of the parent plant, a close copy but not exact. most seeds from hybrids won't produce properly if you want to save your own seeds year to year buy only hairloom seeds or plant starts
bbb132347 2 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, I've read about hybrid varieties not being true to type as you suggest, that could well explain it! I've only got two melons left on the vine so I am interested to see if they ever actually ripen.
kiyafarm 2 years ago
Some study just came out saying that eating unripe fruits and veg can reverse the aging process.
I say juice that melon and do a "reaction video" of you drinking it.
Slacktive 2 years ago
Thanks slack, I could probably do with some age reversal! Maybe I'll just go back to lookin' for watermelons on the footpath! Thanks for watchin man. PS. I love your latest vid's, makin' music by editiing video, really cool technique.
kiyafarm 2 years ago