Harvesting Sugar Baby Watermelons
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2012
- This is the first time for me growing sugar baby watermelons. I harvested this first one, though it is small, with the idea that the curly tendril is dried, and therefore the watermelon must be ripe. Overall, it looked OK. It was sweet. I think that it could have gone one more week.
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OK. That sound good too. This one could have gone another week or so I think. Still a learning process, but it is fun. Thanks for watching!
Great video!!! I just picked MY very first sugar baby watermelon this past Sunday (8/12/18), and I employed the 'dried tendril' technique too... When I cut it open, it looked just like this one in the video did... Not all of the flesh was deep red, but BOY was it sweet! Easily the sweetest watermelon I'd ever tasted. Delicious! I have like 6 or 7 more out in the garden still growing, so I'll let those sit on a vine a bit longer - perhaps until I see their actual stems about to brown - then see if that makes a difference color-wise...
Your right...it needed at least another week. Thanks for the tip! I am not growing them this year, but I will try to keep this in mind. Thanks for watching!
It wasn't ripe enough. It should be red-fleshed when ripe.
Wait until the leaves next to the fruit has dried out, and also wait for the tendril to dry out. That should be good indicators.
Thanks for the tip! I will keep that in mind for this year.
Growing a few different kinds myself this year and Sugar Babys are going to be a BIG part of my Garden. Along with Several rows of Congo and Crimson Sweets. One thing I've heard about Sugar Babys is that you REALLY need to discard anything more than two melons per vine. That way the plant can send all it's nutrients to the melons that are left.
Thank you much! I have one sugar baby watermelon and I wasn't sure when to harvest it. 😊
I direct sowed these in my raised beds. I would let them ripen up a little longer than I did, maybe a week or so. They are tasty little personal sized melons. I will probably grow them again this year too. Thanks for watching!
When you see the stem and leaves turning brow it’s ready to pick . I’m Montagnards indigenous agriculture for many years.
Thank you
I disagree. I have about 30 growing right now -- that I know of -- from 5 plants, and I've put plastic lids under them to keep them dry when I water. Anyway, they're all different sizes, some still as small as a large marble. They grow at different speeds so you can harvest in stages all throughout the summer. At least that's what mine are doing, and have done for over 2 decades. The leaves of your plants will stay green due to thos process especially the ones on the vines with fruit. After-all, the leaves are the engine of the plant.
This melon could've gone on for another TWO weeks, and it would've been much bigger. Think Basketball. That's how big a Sugar Baby gets, and much redder.
@@whatsyurprob158 mines are above ground hanging down is that bad
@@ctrey8395 Don't sweat em. If they get too heavy, they'll obviously fall -- and your job is to make sure that when they do, they don't fall to where they can't break the vine.
Mine are all between 22 - 30 pounds. HUGE melons.
@@whatsyurprob158 damn are they sugar baby do I need to make something to help the vines
Thanks for the information. We just harvested our first sugar baby. I had no way of knowing if it was ready or not. I got lucky though and it was ripe. Now I have something to go off of for the others still on the vine.
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I love this video, I am growing a sugarbaby watermelon also, the first time, I hope mind grow good like your. Thank you for sharing.
My suger baby melon, is almost large like that one.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope to try some next year
Thank you. I’m going to check mine tomorrow.
It was juicy and yummy. Can't wait to pick the next one!
It's my first sugar baby too, and if you wait until the stem going into the melon shrivels up and then dries, it is truly ready, because the plant has stopped feeding the melon. Takes patience to wait tho..but worth it!
Just a recommendation, don't rotate your melons. A dried tendril can be a good indicator of ripeness, but it is important to let the watermelons sit, as a creamy yellow spot will form. In my experience, they get very creamy yellow, and then revert back to being green. After that they get creamy yellow again and as long as the tendril at the fruit, and 2 tendrils back towards the root are dried, your melon is ready, The one you harvested was not ready yet. Should be a consistent pink throughout besides the rind,
thank you this is so informative!
Im growing sugar babies for the first time this year. Mine r in containers. I have 5 melons altogether. I have them tied to a fence with pantyhose hammocks under each one. My biggest one is lookin very yummy and I cant wait to pick it! Wasn't sure how to tell when to pick tho. I think im goin to wait until stem is brown cuz yours looked like it needed another week
The yellow spot is the best indicator for vine ripened ready -
Yours would have been ready in 4-5 days, and the red can vary by type of seed - but - definitely on vine or on a porch to ripen fully.
I've got a patch of Sugar Babies and have not picked yet I planted them late in the season I usually go on if the vine to the melon is drying up or the vine just lets go when you pick it up its ready.
That sure is a nice looking watermelon. Maybe it could have stayed on the vine just a bit more...just thinking that the rind seemed a bit thick, but then the tendril thing you talked about seems fair enough. Congratulations on a nice fruit treat.
I just picked my first harvest of sugarbaby watermelons in my backyard the tendril was brown and shriveled with a yellow spot in a deep thump and it was under developed😣
There are different stages of brown on the tendrils. Just make sure its dark brown and almost fragile and crusty. The tendril should almost snap when you bend it in half.
Looked great to me. Nice to know that the tendril is a good indicator.
Lmao: Oh yeah! That's some good stuff! xD I'm glad they tasted good for you!
Ha! Yep. I might grow some more of these again. I love me some watermelon.
our seed pack said 90 days to maturity, armed with the knowledge of tendrils spots and loving taps, I'll start around the 3 month mark. it seems like when the tendril is not only dried but also curly and possibly falling off is the condition you want to look for, Love these things, I grew them years ago , sewed them in the late spring, was gone all summer, and would come home late august and search for survivors, they were always the size of lopes and very dark skinned by then, ALWAYS lush sweetness
Hi, I have my first crop nearly ready here in Australia. I too heard that when the tendril is dried they are ready. I had one with a dried tendril but it was still green on the inside :-( I have also now just heard that the melons stem needs to turn brown too, so i'm going to wait for that this time.
I guess the tendril indication works :) looks very juicy!
SO CUUUUTE!
Never heard of black diamond watermelons, sounds like they get huge! I'll have to look those up. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanx for the tips
@dalecalder2003 ....Yep. It was nice and sweet. I think it is a reliable indicator for nearing full ripeness.
Thanks!
thank you very much!
This is my first year growing sugar babies. I looked at one today that had a big yellow spot on the bottom but the tendril wasn't dried up. It's not easy to tell when these things are ripe.
It’s so hard to tell when you have a few I’ve had some big ones that were there a while that def weren’t ready but then super tiny ones that were red and ripe 😩
@indoorharvestgardens....I totally agree. At least a week or ten days more.
I grew watermelons this year you wait for the stem connected to watermelon to turn brown also feed them once a week it wasnt ready too much rinde thick
@Rivet Gardener ....Thanks. I will wait longer for the next one.
Next time wait for the stem that the watermelon it on to turn brown so u can have redder and sweeter watermelon. My family farm a lot so we knows thing like this.
WHEN THE STEM TURNS BROWN AT THE MELLON IT IS THEN READY ! YOURS WAS BRIGHT GREEN AND STILL GROWING. THESE MELLONS SHOULD BE BRIGHT RED DEEP INTO THE RHIND!
David Elo: You may be right, but I see no reason to scream about it.
You would if you waited ALL summer and found out it wasn't fully ripe after following the advise !!
My first time growing sugar babies and that was my first thought. Thanks for confirmation.
I picked mine too soon, everything was still green
The tendril needed to be brown and really dry.
It was brown and really dry lol that’s the only one he picked 😂
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nice vid, im going to try these for the first time this year, ive never had decent melons because we have a shorter season, but these sugar baby melons should have enough time to ripen, did you direct sow or transplant?
The yellowish is a sign of maturity due to longer exposure to the sun on the stalk .
Very Nice.. I grew sugar babys 2 years ago.. I don't think we have a long enough growing season as I had just a little success.
I just pulled two of mine cause the spot on the bottom was yellow. They had no red in it whatsoever. I may have to wait until they start to brown now. Hopefully picking them won't hurt the vine.
The yellowing helps you know when teady.i rather have a ugly, ripe,sweet watermelon then a pretty,still green no flavor watermelon. But I guess You said its sweet.Good Job
I have watermelons in the plans for my garden. Wills sugar and a couple others.
Ha! Your right!
how big are these supposed to get? Mine are kind of large but still pretty small, but they do have the light yellow on the bottom. So confusing.
Too much nitrogen? Ive been growi g sugar babies for about 10 years and they need full sunlight all day so the shade might be keeping them too cool and possibly nitrogen from lawn fert could be migrating into watermelon bed hope this helps
How sweet was it really? Was it as sweet as the center of a striped melon you would find at a supermarket?
I grew some but they were an experiment using the viable seeds from a mini seedless then pollinating it with a crimpson sweet that failed but I used the few male flowers it had to hand pollinate the females on the seedless plant
I used the tendril trick and they were ripe but tinny full of water heavy for their size nice and pink and full of seeds but they hardly any flavor but tasted like sweet cucumber with a hint of watermelon I still call it a SUCESS
They were around the size of large oranges grown vertically one was suspended and the other was to small to get a true field spot they also were super tinny so I couldn’t do an accurate knock test but they split open when I went to cut them
Here's a tip, you water them alot when growing, but when they meet their max size and ripening cut their water off completely or very little. This gives it time for the sugars go culminate and it will be sweeter
Does anyone know what animal eats watermelon leaves? I have chipmunks and squirrels and deer and nothing was eating the leaves until this week. Now many of them are eaten to the base of the stem. I have two melons I will pick this week and I did use a less offensive (vegetarian) deer-off product today.
I agree. It needed some more time to ripen.
When you tap the watermelon (as you did), it will prove if that is sweet or not, people in this field can say if ok or not. But for me, it will be ready when the texture of skin has that powder and sounds like (sorry have no idea)... the seller do it and say OK... then when I open at home it is a "yes or no" if sweet or not, while the sweetness is when harvest ripen on time. You are so good gardener, so patient with your plants...good looking garden. Thanks I am seeing all of your video.
the curly tendril is not an accurate way yellowing on the bottom is but even then it could be under ripe. when you think it's right wait 2 weeks then pick it high-waisted three 35-pound pound watermelons using that method. but I still got three good ones
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That watermelon was not ready.
Hyder Lee You are correct sir.
Yessir, one more week about. The yellowing color on the bottom is a great indicator and makes it simple to know on melons like Crimson Sweet...where as you can cut a melon with a dry tendril, and it not be ripe...so you need that yellowing indicator on the bottom. This is a good reason to not rotate the melon on the ground...hence, GOD made it easy to grow, and easy to know.
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@@TROUBADUO what kind of color? Mine has no tendrils near so cant go by that. My packet says should be 6 to 10 pounds and it might be 2 at best, about 6 to 8 in around. Color is kind of pale milky yellow
Brenda Shults The bottom where it sitting is yellow when ripe. If it is dark green on the bottom, most of the time, it is not ripe yet.
those are good for u and its healthy
To get huge sugar baby or any watermelons cultivar you need to reduce the fruits in each shurb to 2 or 3 at maximum
I have a sugar baby paint in a large container. As soon as one of the watermelons got to about the size of a large grapefruit. A little smaller than yours , it stopped growing. The 2nd one beside it has grown to the same size and it doesn't seem to be getting any bigger either. I wonder why. This is also my first time growing sugar babies or anything else for that matter.
If you check my channel that's what happened to mine too. It didn't affect the flavour but I believe the limited space and nutrients in a container even with fertiliser stunts it's growth.
The tendril was not quite dry enough. About one more week. Turning them too often before they are mature might break the stem before it's ready. Thanks!
How long did it take to have them ripen?
just from the thump of the first one, you could tell it was not ready. a ripe watermelon will sound much deeper and hollow
True sugar baby melons should be seedless
I've heard you can tell the ripeness by checking the white spot on the bottom. If it's still really white, then it's not ripe. If it's a really creamy yellow color, then it is ripe.
What does it taste like?
Its not yet ready...
If it vibrates on the other side when thumping it’s more than likely ready to harvest
I like the baby sugar watermelon is like yummy
I am growing black diamond watermelons. These are supposed to get get really big like up to 30 pounds. Nice vid. They aren't that big right now though. :-)
@TallulahShines ...Thanks!
sugar baby origin?which country? USA or CANADA?
I am growing sugar babies right here in Hong Kong, China!
However the biggest one is only around 4 inches in diameter.
As much fertilizer as I added was often washed down deep into the soil by the monsoonal rains.
question: does a small melon mean the plant is likely to produce more fruits?
I would say do. Just wait and see. Good luck!
Not really, …it depends on how many flowers you get especially the female ones. If they all get pollinated you will get heaps of watermelons. Sugar baby is the smaller variety of melons. You will find melons with the same skin colour as the sugar baby, that might be a cross.
but does not look sweet
the yellow and white on the bottom means nothing. it's just the side that on the ground. if you turn your melon you won't get the light spot. so that's not a factor to look at if it is ripe. We had a perfect light spot and we cut into the melon and it was all white at 80 days...
I have had that, too
;; it looked like it wasn't fully ripe yet
You are supposed to turn them so the seed evenly distribute and go evenly ripe
Get a hard plastic cup of full of water and drop it on a table about 1 or 2 cm above a hard table top that’s how it should sound
You picked it too soon. That has to be completely dried out which it wasnt. You can tell it wasnt ready yet by looking at the inside
The melon wasn't ready to harvest. The tendrils weren't dried up enough. They need to look very dark brown and almost black and very curly
sorry messed up on spelling:D
youre not from Sonoma are you? just wondering from the username (:
Why rotate a watermelon while its growing?
Not ripe not good stuff.
Whose here after hearing Watermelon sugar lol
if it thuds, it's ready, the yellow test works too.
why your sugar babies are so small. Because you didn't cut off the new cane grown from the same place of the watermelons.
It's not ready for eating yet!
that is not ready the little tail needs to be real dry and and a lot more red inside
If they have a yellowish brown field spot, that means it will be sweet.
just to say, it was a bit unripe in the video, the skin should only be a inch and a half at most on these smaller melons and should be bright red, looks like a week or two of more growing needed.
They are probably crimson sweet watermelons
that thing was not ready and it couldnt have taste that good
Not ready at all Buddy. Sorry!!!
I just started growing watermelons recently, and in almost every youtube video I saw that the watermelon wasn't fully ripe after the tendril was dry.
So I waited a bit after the tendril dried and it was great. I had a crimson sweet if you were wondering
I grew several crimson sweet. My first time and some grew deformed. I didn’t add any fertilizer or anything else just the seed and dirt. How did you do yours? The ones I grew didn’t grow very big and it yellowed and whitened. My sugar babies were excellent. Hard time with crimson.
deeper the sound the riper it is
Sorry but that is not a ripe melon
Looks like you needed some fertilizer