Montreal melon, once thought to be extinct, makes a comeback
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A melon species once thought to be extinct is having a resurgence in its namesake city. The Montreal melon is a sought-after delicacy popular among society's elite in the late 19th century.
But as Montreal's farmland gave way to roads and buildings, the fruit disappeared.
Now, as Dan Spector reports, the Montreal melon is having a moment thanks to some local initiatives.
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Norwegian here, all I see is a melon that could grow in an otherwise not too favorable climate. That's a win!
Recently found out that it's not that big of a problem, the plants can be grown, it's just that the varieties selected need to have short growth cycle.
I've read that no one believed that peppers and tomatoes could be gown in Siberia, yet few Soviet selectioners did work on those, and created early varieties that are quite successful during short summers
montreal is plenty favorable in the summer , lots of hot weather and a good supply of rain
ha ha the stereotype of canada with snow all year round
My grandpa had a watermelon he grew back in the 1990s that was the best watermelon I ever tasted. He had saved seeds "from the best watermelons" each year for decades. I was a kid and didn't realize the importance of his watermelons until long after he had passed and his variety died with him.
Every time I think of watermelon, I'm reminded of the deliciousness that could have been, but nobody will know again. It's been over 20 years and I still haven't had a watermelon even on the same playing field as the ones he grew.
If you know what the LORD of Host (who is the KING 🤴🏾 of glory) can do supernaturally for anyone. You will know that by faith He will send someone out the blue to bless you with watermelon seeds. And the watermelons 🍉 will be just as you remembered it from the 90’s! Many blessings to you beloved! Selah 🙏🏾🕎🕊💟
@@Yah-Izoa-HakabothIs this a joke?
Great to see historic varieties being appreciated, revived and proliferated❤
I live a Thorville Ohio, and a neighbor raises "Heritage" tomaotes from seed. He says his family started growing and saveing the seeds every year for 100 years.
That man is growing weed and doesn’t want you calling the cops on him lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂i love canada the funniest people on EARTH @@appathegoat
@@appathegoat They do require the exact same conditions, though. If you're growing tomatoes and police notice they'll likely gonna try to bust you for weed if it's illegal in your area.
Source: Have been 'busted' for growing tomatoes before, lol
@@adamk.7177 Hello! Where the charges dropped? Because that’s insane!
I am so glad for this resistance to preserve variety within supermarkets.. so many species have been lost in the last century, it feels like a dark age of nutrition
This is better news than any announced franchise remake or sequel from the 2000s
we grow the same in australia - called rockmelon + cantaloupe + ??? whats the deal with this
cause they deemed it as extinct and now makes a comeback I guess... a hype to their side@@gardenersgraziers7261
Seeds can be bought online, so it’d be worth a try.
Probably a scam just fyi
@@DG-nk7joseems like it's been grown for a while to restock the availability of seed plus melons tend to produce allot of seed per fruit so it wouldn't take that many cycles to restore normalcy if there's an active effort
@@splashafrica Seed banks merely freeze seeds they don’t propagate them.
@@DG-nk7jo take a step back and ask yourself why would you bother to do that in the 1st place the seed used to reset the population litterally came from the seedbank because the point of the seed bank is to preserve biodiversity
@@DG-nk7jo it's been grown in gardens for the last 28 years since rediscovery seeds are available now it's not an expensive plant to try growing in the back yard maybe another 3 or 4 years for it to be grown commercially but historically it went out of fashion after it was grown commercially so it's probably a better idea to let it remain a curiosity for the gardeners to keep and share seeds like we do with heirloom vegetables
Wait until the Japanese find out about it. You know how they can be with fruit!
WE DEMAND YOUR MELONS
Wait that doesn't sound right
Well gonna taste like melon 😂😂😂😂
@@TheNewRobotMaster 😂
Never knew there was a 200-year old melon variety associated with the Montreal area, till headlines started discussing the fruit days ago. 😲 Quite the interesting history for a fruit. 😅
Look into the history of citrus. Oranges are a cross breed between a mandarin orange and a citron. Clementines were only made in the late 1800's/early 1900' by a French Missionary named Clement Rodier. No Clementines existed before that. It sounds made up but so does literally the rest of the history of fruits.
@@adamk.7177fruits have insane lore. for example, mangoes. I eat them all
The need to save some seeds and put them in the seed vault to perserve.
Already done. The variety was recovered from a seed vault in Iowa. Now several seed companies carry it, including the Seed Savers Exchange, who maintain their own seed vault.
It's safe.
I'm a Torontonian by birth and a Peterborough resident currently, but I can attest that Montreal is a place that can, quite literally, freeze your melons clean off.
I hope they were careful about cross pollination. Melon 6 may have banged all the others and any local cantaloupes and honeydews. It probably couldn’t hurt to plant seeds from all of the plants to see what the next generation produces and have some genetic diversity in the breed.
It is more likely the seed stock had genetic variations. Cross-pollination doesn't affect this season's fruit, but will show up in the next generation of plants.
Also, this melon is a bit odd in that it tastes best when picked before it changes color from green to yellow. Melon 6 may have been picked at peak flavor while the others weren't.
@@THall-vi8cp I’m referring to the seeds inside of melon 6. If they didn’t self pollinate all the flowers and bag them to keep them “pure” they could have done a bunch of gene swapping with its neighbors and any similar melons in the area. Cucurbits are notoriously prone to crossing. I can’t tell you how many weird melons, pumpcchinis, and pumpgourds I’ve had pop up unexpectedly.
@evilsharkey8954
I understand. I'm only adding that if such a event did occur this season, the effects would be seen in future generations and not in the fruit itself this season. I'll give you an example. If Sugar Baby watermelons are pollinated with pollen from Carolina Cross 183, the Sugar Baby will still produce the same small ice box melon expected. The seeds, however, contain the hybridized genes and when grown will produce something different -- and likely much larger, since Carolina Cross 183 can grow to 200 lbs or more.
If melon 6 is somehow a hybrid, then the cross that made it happened either last season or before. But I'm not so sure it is. The video didn't note any other differences, such as size, color, shape, etc., which would all be afffected in a cross (as you've no doubt seen when various odd cucurbits pop up).
@@THall-vi8cp Melon 6 wouldn’t be a hybrid. The seeds would be, and they wouldn’t breed true.
Hopefully, they kept the plant’s flowers guarded so its offspring are as good as it is.
It's wonderful to see this old, native melon being grown again in its natural habitat. Thank you to the person who researched and found the seeds in the seed bank.
Melons instead of traffic, a good idea.
"I actually taste, uhh, part of our history"
These news channels always seem to find the most pretentious people to interview 😂
Everyone looking at the melon like it’s delicious and I’m over here thinking “those stems are gorgeous and would be great in a soup.” 😂😂
I haven’t seen anything like this in a while..
💜💜💜
Montreal island had some of the best farm land in Quebec. Now it's all asphalt and concrete. Laval is having the same fate. Pretty stupid.
you can't stop progress bud
@@deathhulk8860 Not sure it's progress
@@redMaple_QCits all progress, things is not all progress is worth to be made
@@sotch2271 Progress is change for the better. Otherwise it's just change.
The Champlain valley and all the areas south of Montreal (St Hyacinte, St Jean Sur Richeliu, etc, Montrégie) have the richest black earth in the country...leftover deposits of the warm shallow Champlain sea which was a prehistoric inlet into the North American continent from the Atlantic ocean..
Forestburg Melons from this old couple whom I assume are dead now /sold roadside in town for decades in Sioux Falls South Dakota are....were the best.... There is a good chance that the melons in this story and the ones of mine are the same as cousins.
I remember seeing signs for the Melons every time I traveled through Forestburg from Huron to Mitchell, but I never got any. Probably should have
I love this stuff, we can learn from this by starting our own personal seed banks to keep this from happening.
Montreal melon - 100 % frostproof ! 😂
Gotta be up there for sure.
not true - it is a rock melon (modern name) and it is an annual that dies off over winter
As a hobby gardener I enjoy hearing stories like these. Maybe I could grow that melon someday?
Bringing back something that was essentially extinct is such a win. If I get a chance to visit my cousin in Montreal in the future, I'm asking for this.
Heartfelt Labor of Love! Thank-you.
Nice melons Montreal! I'm growing some nice flat white boer pumpkins this year but look forward to trying the Montreal melon next year. Who's got seeds?
Been growing for years ! Very tasty but will cross pollinate with cantaloupe. Annapolis seeds carries their seeds.
@@tanyaharris1335 Thats awesome! Grow with the flow!
Once the best is developed, see if the Norwegian seed bank will store some of the seeds for perpetuity. So many seed varieties are lost or bought out by corporations and then never available again.
Ok...when does it hit the grocery store?
can we bring back the DoDo bird?
Sure, I'd try some dodoes, but apparently they tasted awful.
@@bobbiusshadow6985 didnt taste liek chicken?
@@randomrazr ayoooo
@@randomrazrchicken tastes like dodo
There is enough viable genetic material to do so. Supposedly some research group is working on it.
I know a similar melon, with orange inside, somewhat like cantaloupe.
There is a seed vault up in Alaska that has every plant seed ever been planted in the Earth. It was not lost just misplaced.
Not every plant, but they try to. There’s new plant species being discovered every day
Wow a melon let me taste it! Hmmm taste like melon 😂😂😂😂
Food history is seriously so fascinating, fruit especially!
That use to grow in my back yard with pumpkins. There should be a global cataloging of all plants held in private collections to build a species log.
I look forward to being able to buy the seeds and plant them myself!
this is a type of news we love to hear more
I love the season of melon and grape in places where hardy Winter crops are needed varieties like this. Sweet. I would grow this along with another plant I’ve been wanting to grow called Madeleine Hill mint and then try to prepare something frozen with the two maybe and along with cucumber. Just the sort of thing people used to make but I think with those two crops it would be quite elevated.
35 bucks a slice....Good Lord, let it go extinct!
Montreal eh? So it’s a melon that smokes and drinks all day
Baker creek seed specializes in rare and heirlooms.
Keep those away from Montreal Gallagher.
once thought to be extinct... a long time ago...
I’m so eager to grow these next season in Virginia to bring back this once lossed fruit and try it myself
I loved golden russet apples which I bought regularly in Guelph, Canada. Never found it anywhere else 😢
My inlaw is looking for Snow apples
That thumbnail looks like a xenomorph egg. 😮
Looks like a weird honeydew melon to me. I say we jail him for trying to look like a pumpkin. Then it's gonna be a Bordeaux melon 😮
it's a musk melon
@@kingjames4886don't those come from Africa?
@@MisterPerson-fk1tx not sure, maybe originally.
@@kingjames4886 Melon Musk, originates from South Africa I believe...
it is a rock melon or cantaloupe by another name
It’s still planting it in the phillippines
A Canadian heritage moment right here
“I actually taste part of our uhh history” 😂
Wow amazing that this seen was found and sad at the same time since many plants and animals have become extinct because of us.
Did you know that growing and selling some heirloom potato varieties is illegal? Varieties that have been deemed commercially worthless or having the potential to harbour diseases can't be sold or bartered legally, no matter the flavour or keeping qualities or whatever. No matter how isolated the garden might be from commercial operations.
Most potatoes grown and harvested in Canada are Russets, because they became the standard for fries, chips and bakers. Mostly because of the high yield and uniformity, because they really don't have much flavour.
and still are increasingly faster, so are you vegan then?
@@heidim7732And in the end, all fruits and vegetables that we eat are not natural.
They were created by humans with the process of artificial selection. Humans on all continents started doing artificial selection with plants thousands of years ago.
If we keep potatoes as an example, the original potatoes that the Native Americans started with in central America didn't look amywhere near the pototoes we eat today. The Incas alone had developped hundreds of different varieties of potatoes of different tastes and colors that could grow in various climates, going from dry deserts to cold mountains.
And while the Russets are the most popular ones, there still are tons of different varieties of potatoes that are grown. In grocery stores alone, at least in Québec, we have acess to at least a dozen different varieties
@@PatG-xd8qnof all the cultigens in the Americas I think Salvia Divinorum is the most interesting. Not a natural plant and you can only propagate it through cuttings. I had one once upon a time and the government won't let me get another one. On threat of violence at that.
@MisterPerson-fk1tx
Probably a natural hybrid that was noticed at just the right time and someone thought it was a good idea to keep it around. Saffron is another such plant.
I wonder what it tastes like
Montreal Smoked Meat
Supposedly has an interesting nutmeg like component in the flavor profile but it's the juicy almost melt in your mouth quality that is the main draw.
Chicken
According to the Slow Food Foundation, it has a "unique sweet and spicy flavour with tones of nutmeg."
Wow like the Aztecs and the Avocados.
we grow the same in australia - called rockmelon + cantaloupe + ??? whats the deal with this
@@gardenersgraziers7261 Was yours in danger of extinction ones?
@@ants7279 who cares - flavour is determined by soil fertility mare than variety
@gardenersgraziers7261 This is about fruit that almost went extinct and brought back what do you have against Avocados bro?There's plenty of Australian melons to go around but these fruits flavors might have never been tasted if no one did enything to save them.I feel like your envious for some reason just be happy for the fruit making a comeback.
@@ants7279 the fruit is a variety of rockmelon - the flavour of its flesh i do not know - it might be sweeter - if so it is a fruit to avoid or eat in moderation - objective for modern people should be to grow low sugar fruits - global obesity epidemic is of greater concern - eat more vegetables is better for humanity - this is trivia
This come back is welcome cause diversity for everything is the base of life
Why do the food bank getting the melons I wanna try
Fun fact, watermelons originated in Africa and were originally sour.
looks like a type of pumpkin..
I remember the children's story about JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.. 🤔
Okay, what does it taste like...?
According to the Slow Food Foundation, it has a "unique sweet and spicy flavour with tones of nutmeg."
Amazing ❤
been hearing a comeback of certain plant species that thought to be nearly extinct is exciting news.
This is so amazing.
It would be nice to try it.
Can we bring back common sense?
This is the best comment :)
I wish they grew Argentine zapallito squash here
So was this a native fruit or something from the old world
Send seeds! Keep our heritage of man alive!
Where can I get some seeds so I can help bring it back I do permaculture and regenerative agriculture
I got melons growing on my lawn
Can a regular Quebec citizens purchase the seeds to grow in our yards? Or is it hard to get your hands on/not being sold? I would like to grow it.
Yes a few companies are selling seeds. I have been growing since 2019 from Annapolis seeds. Just be careful about cross pollination if you save seeds. I save seeds every second year because it is the only melon on this year. But cantaloupe grow well here in zone 6 as well, and are mind blowing compared to store bought. montreal taste less musky, more fresh.Pale green flesh which is a bit yellow to center. I find it harder to tell when they are ripe compared to other rock melons. The first I picked mid August was edible but a little underripe, the second was excellent.
@@tanyaharris1335 now I’m gonna look into growing melons here lol. I love melons! They are low-calorie but high volume and filling and very delicious. Great snack for in between meals!
Melons are a Gift from the Chinese Civilization.
What does it taste like?
According to the Slow Food Foundation, it has a "unique sweet and spicy flavour with tones of nutmeg."
Green flesh, it has a subtle flavour. Reminds me of cantaloupe without the musky flavour. Had a friend say it doesn’t taste as funky . Quite firm flesh, moderate amount of seeds, the fresh profile makes it tricky to know when to pick compared to other melons like cantaloupe. It is just a variation of rock melon like a variety of tomatoes. It isn’t a native melon , but developed and grown in Montreal .
How wonderful!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I told them not to mix in mosquito dna :(
Hermoso❤
what a cool story
awesome
once the chinese start farming those. prices of that melon will go down
Wonderful news!!!!
I wonder if this is the "Saskatchewan" melon I grew back in the 1960s? Does anyone know how I would find out this info?
Now if only more people learned how delicious Quince is.
Yummy
Don’t send any of those seeds to Japan lol
We use to have lots of native crops hundreds of years ago but now there basically gone forever.
Hell there’s still hundreds of edible native plants in that state but you don’t eat them like maybe 5 out of hundreds it’s stupid.
Ok, but what was the name if this melon before colonizers changed it? It came from somewhere didn’t it? The local college needs to do some genetic research.
this
It came from overseas , the variety was developed here. Not that old. When they revived the seeds in the nineties there was a gentleman alive who grew it and confirmed it was true to type. But it is just like a variety of tomatoe , heritage not native.
Délicieux melon ! 🍈
Amazing
Yeah let’s go ahead and eat the extinct melon, like seriously
Is this also known as citron? My grandma used to preserve it or make jam. Or is this a completely different fruit? It looks just like a citron.
Those grow from trees, this looks more like a vine
No, citrons look like lemons, but bigger with "wrinkles".
I know the one you're talking about. That's "Citrullus amarus". The Montreal Market melon is a cultivar of "Cucumis melo". They are both in the Curcurbite family but Citrullus is a different genus than true melons.
Very different-are you sure your granny wasn’t just calling it by the wrong name?
lol no. citron is citrus...
I heard it taste like melon
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Centuries.
THIS COMEBACK IS GONNA BE FI- I MEAN REFRESHING!
What is the weight
Not sure about these being grown but in the old days they were said to be very large for a musk mellon, getting up around 20lbs
It took off, eh? 😁
wait ? isn’t there a fancy mall built at the blue bonnets ??
The Blue Bonnet was torn down in 2018, and nothing has been built there yet. Apparently, there are plans for affordable housing development there.
Don’t let billy gates get a hold of the crops
Believe in One God. God don't eat or drink He is not born nor He tastes death and there is nothing like Him. It is idolatry worshipping created things over Creator.
@@qasimalmani647 I saw God completely wasted and passed out in a bar's back alley trash. I exclaimed to myself: Jesus effing Christ, God really needs Jesus
Grow your future before someone else does!
@@bobbiusshadow6985Jesus was just enabling him with the ol water to wine party trick though.
Where can someone order seeds?? Are they selling any seeds? 😮 Please reply
Ok
Just google "Montreal Melon Seeds" and you'll get over a dozen results.
Yes, costs 4$. Very easy to find
Google it , lots of companies have been selling for years, it’s an annual developed in Montreal . Revived back in the 90s . Lots of companies sell seeds. Two in Nova Scotia off the top of my head, Annapolis seeds and incredible seed company. Both do online orders.
❤ i love that they are going to food banks
Surprised anything grows along the st Lawrence with the sewage Quebec throws in it.
It probably tastes like john players and exhaust smoke
It's gotta taste better than that.. I had my JP's with a side of diesel exhaust and it wasn't good. Proximity though.. So maybe..
Genetically modified now?
Yep 😊
35 u got me mest up