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
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Can't wait to grow this one in the garden. First time
To eat, resell and save seeds for the future. I have eaten this variety several times and they are delicious.
Tasty and fun to grow.
Yellow and orange melons have been my staple melon crop for 50 yrs. Why change now!!! I am excited to taste this new Stark Bros. product.