Description
Unique color and fantastic flavor. Enormous melons with beautiful, deep orange flesh. Very sweet, almost tropical flavor, with white seeds. The best-tasting of all orange watermelon varieties, in our opinion. A favorite at roadside stands and farm markets. Highly resistant to wilt, insects and splitting. Photo courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed.
- Days to germinate: 4-10
- Days to maturity: 85
- Start indoors 2-3 weeks before last frost. Sow 1” deep in sterile planting medium.
- Transplant spacing: 5’
- Sow outdoors after the last frost in hills of 3 seeds each.
- Seed spacing: 5’
- Seed depth: 1”
- Produce size: 20-30 lbs. each
- Yield: 2-3 melons per vine
- Mature plant height: Vines can reach 10’ long; plant itself is 8-10” tall
- Suitable for container growing: No
- Year of discovery: Introduced in the 1960s
