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Post by imgrimmer on Dec 25, 2019 15:52:29 GMT -5
Where do you live?
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Post by flowerbug on Dec 26, 2019 13:42:58 GMT -5
we're in mid-Michigan, USoA. we have 100-120 growing days depending upon how the frosts work out.
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Post by RpR on Jan 1, 2020 18:54:14 GMT -5
For what it is worth, I have far more success with direct seed than transplants, even if the variety is the same.
I can move, transplant volunteers with far more success than store bought or seed started indoors.
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Post by flowerbug on Jan 3, 2020 12:28:47 GMT -5
all the seeds i have will get direct sown. we get starts from the local greenhouse for other things and they rarely give us trouble.
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Post by mskrieger on Jan 27, 2020 12:19:36 GMT -5
Just went through the seed for this coming season and I have am very excited to finally have an F1 growout using seeds saved from the best tasting melons over 3 seasons of trial! (Actually from 5 years tho--in 2018 the weather was terrible and then the squash overgrew all the other cucurbits, and one year I was super pregnant and didn't manage to plant my melons. Was too busy growing two other little melons  ). My longterm plan is continually grow a landrace and save seed from the best tasting fruit, but this is the first season I'll actually be growing from my home grown seeds. Wish me luck! |
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Post by flowerbug on Jan 27, 2020 17:32:21 GMT -5
lol mskrieger as long as you don't call them melon heads i think they'll be ok... yes, certainly, good luck! i will be growing some small melons here to try out some seeds a friend sent me. i hope they work for us. |
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Post by imgrimmer on Jan 28, 2020 4:02:24 GMT -5
fingers crossed!
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Post by philip on Aug 31, 2021 16:06:02 GMT -5
Still trying to grow melons outdoors here in brittany i have been growing Joseph Lofthouses' melon landrace for four years now with moderate success. I was wondering why don't these melons adapt properly to my growing conditions and the answer dawned on me this year. I am simply not growing enough plants. If you think of hybrid plants as lottery tickets a landrace will adapt much quicker if you grow 100 to 200 plants as opposed to 10 or 20. From what i understand Joseph is a farmer and grows crops on fairly large plots and not some hobby gardener like most people who will plant ten or twenty melon plants.
This year once more was catastrophical to me and due to an unfortunate happenstance i lost all my melon seeds. Despite having planted fifty melons i now only have three plants with a chance of producing a ripe melon, so anyone here who grows muskmelons or watermelons landrace style please get in touch if you have seeds to spare.
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Post by Robby on Apr 30, 2022 14:40:52 GMT -5
Hi everyone, Robby here It seems like this topic is dead? After going thru Joseph's YouTube video's and course I'm excited to start a melon landrace in Belgium. I would love to start with musk- and watermelons. As a hobby gardener I have experience. But this season I can use someone's grass field to start and this is quite a more bigger scale then I'm used to So to start I have some question. first, what would be the most sustainable way to prepare a grass field to start the landrace? Just plowing, make a trench and sow? I'm scared of plowing because you awaken all the dormant seeds in de the ground, so weeding will be hell I suspect? Then I read somewhere between the lines that the best technique is to just make a trench and sow as many varieties as possible? Or are there some distances between the plants/rows? At last, are there some people "close" to Belgium who are eager to send some grex mixes? Or maybe even connect with each other and exchange some more details? Looking forward to your feedback, Greetings |
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Post by flowerbug on May 2, 2022 22:07:54 GMT -5
i'm interested and reading along, but i don't grow a very big number of plants and i don't have that much experience growing melons (two years so far just heading into the third season - only have grown two kinds of melons and no plans on changing this season as the past few have done ok for us).
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Post by imgrimmer on May 3, 2022 13:48:30 GMT -5
I have some seeds from my landrace trials from last year. I hope they will do well this season.
I have the highest hopes for a citron melon x watermelon hybrid that I got from Andrew Barney a few years ago. I still have 1 fruit in my storage room. Completely intact it has been sitting for half a year now.
A true long keeper.... I hope to cross it with my watermelon grex.
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Post by imgrimmer on May 3, 2022 13:59:00 GMT -5
citron melon x watermelon hybrids in 2020  in 2021  |
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