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please help me with my melons

post #1 of 5
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ok so i have a small melon patch planned for my front yard where we took out some NASTY old shrubbery. actually the whole front is fruit blueberries, raspberrys, strawberries and the melons (but i digress)

anyway, i have 3 small pots of cantaloupe seeds i started, each pot has 2 small seedlings growing happily. i had gotten seedless watermelon seeds and my first attempt failed and from what ppl told me on here i thought it was cuz we keep our house too cold at night. so i started over, now that its warm and rarely is below 65 inside or out. i even soaked these seeds for 24 hrs in some of that neptune fish/seaweed emulsion fertilizer to give them a little kick! then i planted them in peat pots filled with the awesome compost we got to fill our raised beds (our veggies LOVE this stuff)!! so that was probably a good 3 weeks ago and NOTHING....since then i planted one little pot with 2 sugarbaby seeds (for pollination) and they are going well just as the cantaloupes are. do you all think the seeds were bad? or am i just not destined to have seedless melons this yr?? wwy'all do? if i buy new seeds now, should i just put them straight in the ground? (im 6b)

also, any other melon advice would be appreciated!! should i thin or separate my other pots to one plant or is it ok it do mounds when i transplant and put them both into one mound just as they are in the pot?

thanks so much for all your wisdom
post #2 of 5
Hmmm, I'm in hotter climate (zone 10) - but my seeds sprout just 1 or two weeks after sowing. I plant in pots too.

Are you keeping the seeds warm and moist? You can keep them inside to start germination.

Perhaps try a new packet - good luck!
post #3 of 5
At this point (I'm in 6B as well) I'd just direct sow into the ground. I've only grown melons once and I had a pretty poor result, so I'm definitely not the best person to ask! :LOL
post #4 of 5
Mine started just fine in the ground (same zone, a few weeks ago), I sure hope they really grow and bear fruit.
post #5 of 5
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i gonna get some new seeds tomorrow.....then i will just plant my sugar babies with seeds in the middles with maybe 4 mounds of the seedless seeds around them and then hope and pray. dd is a watermelon moster X10!!!

thanks ladies....any other melon advice keep it coming....especially cantaloupe advice
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