How to Care for Watermelon Plants during the Grow Season? 🍉 🍉 🍉

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In this video I demonstrate how to care for watermelon plants during the Grow Season. One Game Changer tip is to prune the vines of the plant. This means to take the suckers off the vine. The sucker is a secondary vine that branches off from the main vine. When there are more that one watermelon on a vine it's best to prune one melon off. This will cause the plant to place more energy into the watermelon that is left on the vine. Increasing the side of the watermelon is the side effect of pruning. Fertilizing throughout the growing season is also a critical element in producing a giant. I use compost as well as compost tea. The tea stretches a long way. This is an organic fertilizer that can be applied as much as the grower desires. The plant will not burn because of the tea. Checking the leaves for bugs will help identify problems. Bugs can suck the sap out of the plants causing major problems if not dealt with. Remember to water the plants at the base because by doing so decreases the chance of diseases. Fungus on the plant may stop the production of the fruit. When harvesting the watermelons make sure the tendrils are dried out and cut back on watering to insure the watermelons are sweet. Lastly using mulch will help you with watering. The chances of irregular watering decreases.

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TY. I'm in my 5th season of melons. My soil type grows them. I spent $1.44 for seeds and $3.88 for Expert Gardener water soluble fertilizer. I yielded 40 Crimson Sweet melons and shared with my neighbors. God bless you.

TexasAmericaUSA

This is a true city girl (Chicago) having her first go at gardening anything 😂. I love watermelon and its extremely expensive now ($15+) so that motivated me to try at it. Your videos have been very helpful. I started with the products you had in your planting video (ground worms and mychro- something). This pruning video is helpful because they are getting out of hand and I didnt know to prune back. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again

redone

Cutting off the small watermelon does reroute energy back into the remaining watermelon, but you could have left the leaves, because not only do they not take energy away from the fruit, but they actually add more energy through photosynthesis.

malleusmaleficarum

First year watermelon guy here, thank you, we all appreciate your time and effort, Eric out

welcometothetruth

I grew one of the best watermelon patches tks 2 dis guy. Greetings from muscle shoals alabama.

jamiegarrett

This is my first year growing watermelon and I wish I would’ve found this video first! Great video.

Stellasbaby

I would suggest getting a jump on cutting suckers and extra fruit as soon as you can because if you let them go too long, it'll be a spaghetti bowl of vines and it's a pain in the ass to try and trace the main stem to cut suckers etc. Next year I'll have to stay on top of it. My vines got out of control and it's a painstaking process to clean them up. Thanks for sharing!

trilldan

I am so glad I watched your video. For years I have been watching so called Watermellon Experts, and never once did they show what the Suckers were or where to cut it vines back. I have been taking care of Crimson Sweets For 18 years now, that came in volunteers. and not once did anyone explain and show it but you. Great teaching video..

curtisrichards

Bruh! It's my first time growing watermelons. 2 - 6inch vines in a 30 gallon container. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WATERMELON CONTENT! PLEASE post more and varied watermelon content. Thank you! Kevin in Orlando Florida.

thesentfromheaven

It is just so hard to clip the extra foliage and extra melon on one vine off but you are absolutely right to clip it!

susie

Im planting watermelon, cucumbers, green beans, lettuce, kale and cantaloupe. I am praying they all do well as it is my first time ever planting these fruits and veggies. I live in the high desert

MonicaGarcia-rmjk

Love your down-to-earth approach to garden tips.

bobpenny

This was everything. Very clear, to the point and showed your results. I'm going to CUT IT 😄 Thank you!!

blueindy

Thank you for going back and repeating what you’re saying and then showing it to us again! That’s so helpful! Sometimes it’s hard to see what your trained eye is seeing sometimes as a viewer learning for the first time. The extra steps you take are very appreciated!🙏

wildemel