Growing Watermelons From START TO FINISH - Tips and Tricks and Some Unusual Varieties

Join me to grow Watermelons from seed and follow the whole process of growing right through to harvesting and tasting the fruit we've grown together. I'll be growing heirloom varieties that are a little unusual and look pretty exotic, tropical and interesting. These unique watermelons can be grown in the same way as regular watermelons, so join me on this experiment and learn how to grow watermelon from start to finish. We will go through all of the watermelon growing stages, from seed to foliage to flowers to fruiting. I'll be talking about soil use, fertilizing melons and how to know when watermelons are ripe.
Today well be growing:
Watermelon - Moon and Stars; Georgia Rattlesnake; Gold on Gold; Golden Midget as well as a Banana Melon.

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The Kiwi Grower is a channel featuring all sorts of unusual of often tropical fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing edibles. While I'm not in a tropical climate I like pushing limits of what I can grow and sharing experiments with you all. Come learn with me and Subscribe! I have animal videos too :).

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[everydayheroes]

I've grown melons in the states my entire life, My grandparents grew them in abundance for the farmers market. I could tell at a glance that the plants were stressed. They should have been watered much more often, if drainage allowed. when doing so always water at the base to prevent vine rot with random water on the vines if you live in an arid environment without regular rainfall. For sweeter watermelons and cantaloupes when the plant starts vining and again when small 1-inch melons appear, spray the vines and then water with 6 1/2 tablespoons Epsom salts and 3 1/2 tablespoons borax in 5 gallons of water. (Epsom salt is NOT a salt actually, its magnesium) the split in what we locally (slang) call "yellow meated watermelons" is from dehydration. A great video though and a fantastic first attempt. If you need some seeds, let me know and I'll send you some varieties along with printed instructions of how we consistantly produce blue ribbon award melons upwards of 30+ lbs and super delicious! :)

[keeperofthegood]

40+ years ago, the water melons all had seeds and had heavy rinds. Mom never complained, we ate the red as-is and pickled the white of the rind, and then ate the white as well minced as a relish on hot dogs.

[googletranslatesings]

What I find really enjoyable about this video is that you showed us through the entire journey and commented on the various things. Keep it up!!

[Bobithan]

Everyone here is some professional farmer and I'm just here wanting to grow a Mellon in my garden

[One-Hundred]

I love watching this mans videos, it's so wholesome seeing him excited to check on the harvested fruit and veggies he grows. This makes me want to start growing something aswell 😄😄

[ronnalscammahorn]

A lesson learned about watering and leaf mildew, don't water the leaves, add water from below . A cup of Epsom salt per 5 gallons of water works wonders on root growth and overall plant health . Happy trails 👣

[cjmillar]

6:40 the moon star melon has the Southern Cross right on it how cool!!

[Lumimyrsky]

Woah that Moon and Stars melon is BEAUTIFUL :O

[Glic]

Amazing video! Felt like I was right there with you.

[line]

i find it really cute that the Moon And Stars melon actually looks like a dark night with yellow stars

[stayfresh]

Thanks for showing us the whole process

[PrincessFidelma]

This is really encouraging. My little cousin is obsessed with watermelon 🍉 and I'd love to be able to grow some and plonk a big ol fruit fresh from the garden in her arms, but so far I haven't had much luck with them or melons, I've tried several times to grow Moon & Stars watermelon, all I manage is their beautiful freckled leaves ☹️ another year I grew a 5 inch ball (can't remember variety) which started to go soft so I harvested it, and it was all pith apart from a cm of pink 😭

[fabianaraya]

The split inside the melon is possibly what's called "hollow heart", it occurs when pollination is inadequate.
Not sure though, I'm a layman. :)

[corvus_king]

Great video! After seeing this I'm definitly going to try using old tires for my Charentais and Madhu Ras melons. Thanks again

[Eowynkit]

I’ve found that when the melon starts to split in the middle it’s usually over ripe at least in my experience, if they are left too much longer after they start to get grainy and lose their flavor. I’ve never had a golden melon before so it could just be the variety. We tried ghost melons this year, I only got two off the plant but they were huge and really rather tasty thought the flavor was pretty mild compared to the other melon we planted which was a smaller and I got about 10 off that plant can’t for the life of me remember the variety though lol I’ll have to go pull the tags up before I plow it under for the season.

[audreyfastuca]

It's really lovely that you chose to share the harvesting and opening of the melons with your viewers. I can only imagine how you felt, waiting to slice them open and instead of just opening one for the camera, you shared several- thanks! Just one question: since tires are made with chemicals are metals (along with rubber of course), are you worried that those might not break down into your soil overtime?

[danibryant]

Thank you! I am currently growing two different types of watermelon for my first time, California sunshine but I see I have to water more

[SwahiliSpicE]

Great vid. Subscribed. I had three watermelon plants in pots on the window sill that didn’t look like they would make it. So I took them outside and neglected them. My 11yr old being so excited to grow some said he’ll try and rescue them. So he put one in the ground just over a week ago and I thought nothing of it. To my surprise, I checked on it this morning and it was thriving with plenty of new growth. I have two tyres in my garden and you’ve given me an idea. I think I’ll go and plant the other two watermelons in the tyres tomorrow morning with him. That will put a huge smile on his face :-)

[FrankLassowski]

I did grow melons this year for the first time, and they turned out great even after I disturbed their root balls very much after replanting them into the soil.
(Didn't know about their sensitivity t that time). After planting they stoppped growing for almost six weeks, partly because of the roots partly because the weather was very cold.
But I harvested 4 to 5 melons from each of the 2 plants, and they tasted good enough to try it out again next year.
Definitly will seed them earlier and bring them out later :-) And maybe with a little more sun they will be as excellent as yours.

[Carolynefit]

Wow, admire the patience to make this video. Amazing