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Post by kazedwards on Aug 13, 2014 18:19:49 GMT -5
It must be the rain as to no flavor. Thanks for the help. I have heard the color thing but not the softness at the blossom end. I will start checking for that!
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Post by flowerweaver on Aug 13, 2014 18:54:52 GMT -5
Just a thought--we took our excess less sweet melons and made them into syrup this weekend. Peel and seed the excess, throw them into a food processor and strain through a sieve. Mix equal parts of sugar to the liquid and simmer for ten minutes. Add citric acid or lemon juice while tasting to get it to your liking. Then can it using a hot water bath method.
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Post by steev on Aug 13, 2014 19:16:13 GMT -5
When I have the farm more together, I'll be turning my less-sweet melons, bird-raggled fruit, and other spitters into pork.
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Post by philip on Jul 14, 2015 15:50:09 GMT -5
Another question about melons. I crossed two melon plants recently. The cross took and i saw the plant had 5 melons with the fruit from the flower i crossed looking very different. Does this always happen? I had assumed that when you cross two varieties the "new" information would just go into the seeds and next year when you grow them out you get a hybrid that will have different looking fruit etc.... I crossed a minnesota midget flower with pollen from a Lunéville plant. I took off all melons except one to let the plant put more energy into the crossed fruit as i noticed that the midgets were starting to grow faster than the crossed fruit This is my first controlled melon cross so i am surprised it straight away makes a different looking fruit. Any ideas?
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Post by philip on Jul 14, 2015 16:09:19 GMT -5
Ok here's the pictures. Minnesota Midget plant withe two detached fruit next to the crossed melon. Does every melon cross change the form of the fruit on the mother plant?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 14, 2015 18:48:51 GMT -5
It looks to me, based on fruit and leaf shape/texture/color, like there are three different plants in the photo...
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Post by philip on Jul 15, 2015 0:41:51 GMT -5
The plant is growing in a patch of 4 different melon plants. There may be other leaves in the picture but all the fruit you see in the pictures is/was on the same plant. So i gather this is not normal cause if a cross would always change the fruit form surely i would have heard/read about it. This is 100 percent true, confirmed several times, no error possible. The crossed flower made a different looking fruit than all the other ones on the plant.
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