How to Care for Watermelon Plants during the Grow Season? 🍉 🍉 🍉
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In this video I demonstrate how to care for watermelon plants during the Grow Season. One Game Changer tip is to prune the vines of the plant. This means to take the suckers off the vine. The sucker is a secondary vine that branches off from the main vine. When there are more that one watermelon on a vine it's best to prune one melon off. This will cause the plant to place more energy into the watermelon that is left on the vine. Increasing the side of the watermelon is the side effect of pruning. Fertilizing throughout the growing season is also a critical element in producing a giant. I use compost as well as compost tea. The tea stretches a long way. This is an organic fertilizer that can be applied as much as the grower desires. The plant will not burn because of the tea. Checking the leaves for bugs will help identify problems. Bugs can suck the sap out of the plants causing major problems if not dealt with. Remember to water the plants at the base because by doing so decreases the chance of diseases. Fungus on the plant may stop the production of the fruit. When harvesting the watermelons make sure the tendrils are dried out and cut back on watering to insure the watermelons are sweet. Lastly using mulch will help you with watering. The chances of irregular watering decreases.
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Can you practical show how it's done
Thanks! I watched about 4 watermelon videos and you get to the point. We are growing them in hidden patches… we just started doing it with melons but now we are trying watermelons
@@rachealfields2851 HEY Racheal!!! I do my best to get to the point. Let me know how your watermelons do.
@@GrowSomethingTasty we don’t have experience doing it in hidden patches… we want to plant caches everywhere around our city… LIKE a community garden but just in the neglected areas of our city… my husband is a land surveyor that knows a lot of abandoned land.
We want to do this to give more to the people in need. The community gardens suck here and people are more takers than caretakers of the plants. Is there an email I could send u when we start transplanting?
@@GrowSomethingTasty thank you!
TY. I'm in my 5th season of melons. My soil type grows them. I spent $1.44 for seeds and $3.88 for Expert Gardener water soluble fertilizer. I yielded 40 Crimson Sweet melons and shared with my neighbors. God bless you.
HELLO TexasAmericaUSA, come on now. That is SUPER AWESOME. The most I have grown is 25 or 26, definitely not this year. I have got to look up Expert Gardener fertilizer. I know your neighbors were happy that's mad cool. Thanks for sharing this great news.
Where did u find fertilizer so cheep? I seeing like 39dollars for small bag of fertilizer. Never seen any that cheep
First year and with Crimson .I have 2 now and am waiting for more.
This is a true city girl (Chicago) having her first go at gardening anything 😂. I love watermelon and its extremely expensive now ($15+) so that motivated me to try at it. Your videos have been very helpful. I started with the products you had in your planting video (ground worms and mychro- something). This pruning video is helpful because they are getting out of hand and I didnt know to prune back. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again
HEY, @redone!!! It's great that this is your first time gardening. Watermelons are awesome. 15 dollars a watermelon, what??? I see why you are gardening, LOL. Yes, let me know how it goes for you.
Cutting off the small watermelon does reroute energy back into the remaining watermelon, but you could have left the leaves, because not only do they not take energy away from the fruit, but they actually add more energy through photosynthesis.
Hello Malleus, Thanks for the information. So when I cut the vine, the melon got bigger because there was no more melons on that vine. I will try to pull the small melons off the vine and compare the results.
Can u replant the watermelon u cut off
@@dariuswhite3002 No, that doesn't work with watermelons. You can pick suckers off of tomatoes and plant those if you want. It's a good way to guarantee the genetics of a certain plant that has characteristics you like.
@@dariuswhite3002 Too much work.
Thank you I appreciate your information.
First year watermelon guy here,thank you,we all appreciate your time and effort, Eric out
Thanks, Eric!!! I'm glad you like the content.
I am so glad I watched your video. For years I have been watching so called Watermellon Experts, and never once did they show what the Suckers were or where to cut it vines back. I have been taking care of Crimson Sweets For 18 years now, that came in volunteers. and not once did anyone explain and show it but you. Great teaching video..
HEY Curtis!!! I'm glad you liked the video. Someone messaged me a few weeks ago (an expert) told me it's not a sucker but a secondary vine. I am not a trained expert, but I'm still calling it a sucker. I'm not a commercial grower, so I use what I learn through trial and error. Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it.
I would suggest getting a jump on cutting suckers and extra fruit as soon as you can because if you let them go too long, it'll be a spaghetti bowl of vines and it's a pain in the ass to try and trace the main stem to cut suckers etc. Next year I'll have to stay on top of it. My vines got out of control and it's a painstaking process to clean them up. Thanks for sharing!
HELLO Trilldan, yes, the vines will go all over the place. It can be a big mess. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Bruh! It's my first time growing watermelons. 2 - 6inch vines in a 30 gallon container. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WATERMELON CONTENT! PLEASE post more and varied watermelon content. Thank you! Kevin in Orlando Florida.
HELLO Kevin, that's cool, first time growing watermelons. I hope you get nice watermelons. Thanks for watching the melon content. I have a few melons videos. I will be doing some updates in the next few weeks . You might like the one I did growing melons in the store bought bag of compost. This is my first year doing that. I appreciate the support.
Im planting watermelon, cucumbers, green beans, lettuce, kale and cantaloupe. I am praying they all do well as it is my first time ever planting these fruits and veggies. I live in the high desert
HELLO, Monica, that sounds great. I pray they do well. You are in the high desert. Wow. I bet mulching would help you with retaining moisture. Do you use mulch with other plants you have?
I wish i planed my garden out better, this my first year too
@nicholasharris-dixon9558 Nicholas every year will get better. I remember my first year, just keep going.
@@GrowSomethingTasty my plants grew good, just to many big plants. My zucchinis and tomatoes shaded out my peppers and started to shade out my collards. My cabbage grew so big it knocked over most of my onions. I plan on making my raised bed bigger next year.
@@GrowSomethingTasty yes I use mulch and it really helps... But my kale got eaten by the white butterfly even though I tried to cover it. So I will have to try again with the Kale
It is just so hard to clip the extra foliage and extra melon on one vine off but you are absolutely right to clip it!
HELLO Susie, it sure is hard to do. Thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it.
Love your down-to-earth approach to garden tips.
HELLO Bob, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you have a great day
I grew one of the best watermelon patches tks 2 dis guy. Greetings from muscle shoals alabama.
HEY Jamie!!! Wow, I am glad to hear. Great Job.
This is my first year growing watermelon and I wish I would’ve found this video first! Great video.
HEY, Stella!!! I'm glad you are growing watermelons. I'm glad you liked the video. I hope you get some nice melons.
This was everything. Very clear, to the point and showed your results. I'm going to CUT IT 😄 Thank you!!
HELLO India Shufford, thank you for saying that. You made my Day!!! That monster melon taste good but it's about gone. Glad I have another to take its place. That's right CUT IT!!
Thank you for going back and repeating what you’re saying and then showing it to us again! That’s so helpful! Sometimes it’s hard to see what your trained eye is seeing sometimes as a viewer learning for the first time. The extra steps you take are very appreciated!🙏
M J thank you, I appreciate your kind works. Hey I'm so excited I just found a watermelon I did not know was out there. A bonus melon, I just videoed it so look for it maybe tomorrow. I don't know if it's informative as the one you saw, it's cool 😎. Your comment made my day, thanks
@@GrowSomethingTasty Hello, how are you, can I talk to you about agriculture?
That’s pretty awesome! I’m getting ready to put my seedlings in soil and I’m gathering as much knowledge as I can. Thanks for the info!
HELLO, Shayinla1942, I'm so glad you stopped by and that you are gathering as much knowledge as you can. You are welcome for the info. Let me know how your watermelons do. I have a watermelon video I'm releasing tomorrow, and it's something new for me. I can't wait to see how this works for me.
I just took over my brothers small watermelon patch so i am not sure how many plants he has in there or anything like that snd i have never grown them before so i n3ed all the help i can get. Thank you so much for the info. Great great tips, no telling how many i would have ruined wirhout this info
HEY Beth!!! You are welcome. You got this. You have been gifted a small watermelon patch, that's a Sweet gift. I can't wait to hear how well you do.
I would love to see you harvest your melon. 😊
HELLO, Deborah, that is great. If you youtube when to harvest watermelon and type my name, you will see me harvest that melon. It was huge. Thanks for watching.
That technique of cutting off the rest of the vine that has more than one melon, so that the energy goes into that remaining melon, is something that I hesitated from doing for yrs
But, after seeing your results, I'm applying the same technique with my moon & stars melons!
HEY Clark!!! I totally understand. I did not do it for years. I tried it with a few plants, and I liked it. So you could do a 1 or 2 and see how you like it. Some melon plants I can't get to because i plant them so close, so I live with the results.
Just found your channel young man Love Watermelon God bless your family young man 👍🏾🙏🏽💚🌿
HELLO Mrs. Barbara!!! I'm glad you found my channel. Watermelons are great. God bless you as well. I appreciate your support.
the way you told it I learned alot . Thank you I have about 300 plants in 1 garden spot . and if I do well I plan to do 1 acer or a 1/2 acer Thank you for your show
HELLO, Charles, that sounds great. You have lots of plants. Let me know how it grows this season. I glad you like the video.
Man, you are good. I'm in love with you for in garding.
I'm a Trellis grower 10 gallon fabric pot in the city, of course😅
Parents from south they talk about me, laughing at my garding man growing melons on trellis I tell I ain't got no snakes worry about it's squirrel & rats got me climbing 😂
Even though they can still get to me, I slow them down some tree mesh cover trellises, that draws around trellis legs. & of course, net bags hold fruit in up on trellis, keep heavey melon from dropping popping off😊
I'm following you word👍💗
HELLO Yvonne, Thank you. Thank you for your kind words. Snakes, no, no, I had 2 in my garden that I know of b4. I have everything else this year. I was going to explain why this week was in a video. Hopefully, I will get to it. we are going on another mini vacation. 2 weeks ago, the animals got me good. Let me know how your melons turn out. Thanks for stopping by
Thank you . I was wondering why my watermelon were growing small even now they should have gotten bigger. I will start on this today. Thanks so much ❤ 🍉
HELLO Tonya, you are welcome. Let me know when you see some noticeable growth. Or if you don't see any. I hope it works out for you . Thanks for watching and commenting.
Very impressive watermelon Sir and great tips 👊🏻🍉👊🏻
HEY PorchGardeningWithPassion!!! Thank you. I appreciate it.
Who doesn’t like watermelon. I’m retired and grow many cucurbits. Out in my little garden every day scouting for squash bugs borers and eggs. Limiting vegetation by removing suckers helps and allowing vines on bark mulch keep’s fruit off dirt growing healthy. Great content and great presentation skills.
Hello Don Cook, I know a few people who don't like watermelon. I love them and I can't wait to grow the Carolina Cross melon this summer. You said the word I like Retired. I got a long 5 more years. Thanks for the comment I trying to get better and better. What types of watermelons do you grow?
@@GrowSomethingTasty I’ve had Sugar Baby (volleyball size) and going to grow Black Diamond this year. Hoping your last 5 goes fast. Love being able to hop out to my garden anytime. Thanks again
Thanks for this video. I currently have a small watermelon plant with many side shoots and male flowers. No female flowers as yet. I also cut the ends of my vines after pollination. It has helped in the past.
Hello Julia, You are welcome. Yes, you are right it does help. I hope you get some female flowers soon. What type of watermelons are you growing?
Gotta say man: Those vines and melons look wonderful. I'm going to try and follow some of your advice. Directions on my plants called for Mounding. I am not sure they need to be mounded. Yours sure look wonderful I must say. Definitely a thumbs up..
Thanks, again Craig. Yes, it says to mound the watermelons on all seed packets. I'm sure it works but I have stopped doing it. You are not the first person to talk to me about mounding. I'm thinking about doing a video on that topic. I know you said you are new to my channel, I'm having a mole and vole issue this year. They are messing up my garden, especially my melon plans. I'm going mad but this Wednesday I have a video coming out where I did something a little crazy to protect my melon plant. I think it might work.
Thanks for the info, sir! This I’m my first “successful” year growing watermelons and I think I’m on the right track! It’s been raining here off and on for about a month here and they’re growing like crazy!
Btw, I’m fighting the squash bugs and snails right now! They’ve just about killed my big pumpkins..😡
Hello C M, you are welcome. Glad to hear about your successful year with watermelons. That rain will make them grow crazy. Good stuff.
I hate those squash bugs. I killed some with soapy water today. I try to come up with a plan every year and they still go crazy. I planted more squash plants to keep them off my melons. I'm going to plant them early and put them on the other side of my house next year. I have never planted pumpkins I will try that too. Are you doing a fall garden?
@@GrowSomethingTasty yes sir we are. My fall garden is on the other side of my chicken pen, only problem I’m having there are the snails eating my cantaloupe leaves and spider mites on my young broccoli. After this rain all these bugs cranked it up! Lol
@@CM-fv2js I wish I could get chickens. I use beer traps for Slugs I wonder if the snails like the beer 🍺 traps 🤔
Thanks for the info this my first time planting watermelons, I hope that I prune them right. And the liquid fertilizer is great on my greens, tomatoes, beets and turnips greens.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💯💯
HELLO, Missdevemissdeve, that's great to hear you are a first-time watermelon grower. You will do well pruning. That fertilizer is great. You are right. In about 2 weeks or less, I will have another fertilizer video, and it's interesting. I learned this from a local gardener, and her plants are large. I will show her plants in the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you for this. I am growing in cold Canada, close to famous Winterpeg (Winnipeg). Hopefully I can get something realiable.
No problem, I hope you are successful. I harvested that melon in the picture yesterday it was great. Good luck to you.
Winnipeg? Oh I’m sorry. That’s too bad . Hopefully you will move on from that tragedy. Best of luck!
Thanks for the pruning tip. This is my first year to grow watermelon and I see already I need to go re-inspect my garden.
HELLO Matthew, you are welcome. Yes, I try to inspect the garden to watch out for bad bugs because they like to eat things up. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Fantastic tutorial 👌 Thank you! This is my first time ever starting all from seed. What tips can you or any of you with green thumbs give me on soil, feeding, honestly anything 😊 If I get just one, I will be a happy lady! 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉
HELLO Nan's Fam, thank you for the wonderful comment. Are you starting from seed inside? If so, don't forget to harden off your plants. Make sure to feed the plants when they are in the ground. I give them fish fertilizer for nitrogen until they start to bloom. Then, I use compost tea. Everyone asks how often to water, but that's hard to say because everyone climate is different. You might try to mulch your plants. I would mulch some and not mulch some to see if it makes a difference. I can get away with not watering for a long time. Also, monitor your plants for bugs, especially that squash bug. You will get some melons. If you have any questions throughout the process, just let me know. If I know the answer, I will definitely give it. Grow Something Tasty and have fun doing it.
@@GrowSomethingTasty I am going to direct sow. Hope it's not too early. Growing the Crimson watermelon. I have never seen a squash bug! Would neem oil work for this? Regular potting soil ammendment? Thank you so much!
@Nan's Fam Okay, direct sowing is good. I think I can get started in another week or so. I may start hardening my seedlings off soon. I use blood meal and garden tone fertilizer for soil amendments. Good, you have not seen a squashbug. They love squash and watermelon plants. I would check under leaves to make sure they lay bronzes colored eggs in clusters. The adult bug looks like a stink bug.
Im growing my watermelons in a 50 gallon wicking container and so far they are loving it.
HELLO Mr. Stinson, that's sounds great. Let me know how it turns out. You got me interested in growing out of a 50 gallon wicking container. I like trying different methods. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Hey Bear, Another new viewer here. Nice work both in the garden and on the video channel! I'm a northern neighbour - Okanagan Valley BC. We get to well over 100 in the summer (your temp scale) but down to -30 in the winter! I'm trying watermelons for the first time and this video will help. I'm next looking at how to grow them vertically - and when to harvest - so I'm off to watch those! Be well!
HELLO bc-guy852, I appreciate the support. I hope the videos help. I'm glad you found the channel. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I appreciate your tips man, I have some watermelon and I have been thinking about the tiny size they have for such a long time but now let's try these tips and see how they turn out.
Hey Kenrick, no problem. I hope the tips work for you. Let me know how it goes.
@@GrowSomethingTasty Absolutely!
@@Christie.signsja How did they come out?
I shared your pruning advice to my Facebook gardening page. I have a long storage watermelon I developed that is having smaller watermelons each successive season and I think this will help.
HELLO, Robert, sounds good. I hope this will work for you. Thanks for sharing the pruning advice and watching the video.
Ok. The basketball comparison did it for me. Thank you I am growing watermelons thus year.
HEY MotivationGardeb!!! It did it for you. That's great to hear. I'm trying to grow my biggest one ever. Let me know how your melons turn out.
@@GrowSomethingTasty I will keep you posted and will tag you when I plant. You make growing watermelons look easy.
Hello from California. I’ve never seen a squash bug! Thank goodness!
HELLO Michelle, WHAT??? That is AWESOME!!!! You don't ever want to see them. Do they not live in California? They will kill a plant fast. Thanks for watching and commenting. I see them every year, but this was my best year against them.
Great tips! I’m trying to grow some for the second time. My first attempt I only got 2 small melons and one started to rot. The other wasn’t very sweet, but this time will be better! :)
HEY @mypointofblue!!!! It is great that you are trying to grow melons. It will be better this time. Hey, this might help with the sweetness. When the melons are close to harvest back off the watering to concentrate the sugars in the melon. If it rains a lot during that time, we can't do anything about that, LOL. Keep growing, bro!!!
@@GrowSomethingTasty thanks! Will do!
Awesome…very informative…Thanks for sharing…just connected…Salute!!!🍃🍃🍃
HELLO Black guns and gardens, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
"Tips for massive results"
Sounds like a brochure my wife tried to give me!👊🤣✌✨
HEY Sevensfist!!!🤣🤣🤣 Now that was funny!!!
I am trying to grow watermelons for the 2023 gardening season. Last year I got vines but know watermelon. I found you during my search on how to achieve this. Yes, I would have thought to keep the small one on the vine without cutting it thinking I would have more. So that was a good tip. My question is how to get it to grow a watermelon from the flower? I had flowers but it never grew a watermelon. I was thinking I needed to perhaps have pollinating flowers around in order for the bees to come and pollinate the flower of the watermelon (which I plan to do). I would love to see how you make your compost tea. Thanks for the tips.
HELLO RB the Garden Nanny, you answered your own question. You should plant flowers to bring the bees to pollinate the flowers. If you don' see any bees you can hand pollinate the flowers by picking the male flower and rub it inside the female flower. I'll do a compost tea video for you. I will check to see if I have a video on that (I might not have one). Thank viewing and leaving a comment. You will get some watermelons this year!!! Take Care, RB
@@GrowSomethingTastythanks so much. I've been researching and the pollination part is where I have been going wrong. I just plant it and forget it. Even though my garden is full of flowers I guess it's not close enough to the watermelon. Yes, I think I will do both. I'm determined this year. I do have a compost tumbler and at the bottom the juices run down in the bottom and collect there. That's the only compost tea that I get but I would love to know how to make it other than just that. Thanks again for replying.
@RB the Garden Nanny, LLC Hey, I do have a video on making it. If you search how to make compost tea and type bear brown, the video will come up.
in my case there is no bees in my area so I pollinated the flowers, there are many videos that shows how to do manually
Great info, love it!! It is so hard to cut of baby watermelons, but I had to do it today. I have been feeling bad all afternoon about it.
HEY SelfSufficient!!! I'm glad you liked the video. It's going to get easier, especially when you see how fast that melon balloon up in a week or 2 it's like magic. Thanks for watching and commenting. Let me know what the melon looks like in a week.
My grandfather always grew a huge patch of very large watermelons in the 1970s. I remember them talking about some of them growing to 75 pounds. My mom loved the yellow meated watermelons and the good thing about those is they were almost always sweet long before official picking time. I`d get up early in the mornings while the melons were still chilled by the cool nighttime air and eat some smaller ones right in the field. I should have bought seeds for that type this year. I have some Sugar Baby seeds so I guess I`ll just try those.
I need to start a couple of rows of pole beans and some various cucumbers I`ve never tried and pick a good spot for a few types of heirloom corn seeds that came in a variety pack, plus I have a lot of weird seeds I`ve never tried before like Sorghum, buckwheat, lentils, and more. Trying new things and hoping to get some high quality food cheap.
I have Clemson Spineless okra, bush snap beans, yellow squash, radishes, Sugar Snap Peas, and some Spacemaster cucumbers planted right now, and later today I`m doing a row of Red Burgundy and Jambalaya okra and planting the few Mississippi Purple Hull peas I have to get more seeds.
I planted some Sun Choke tubers around here for a future emergency food supply and got a Brown Turkey Fig tree planted last month plus I tossed some Amaranth seeds around and planted Jicama and Moringa tree seeds. I`m waiting on some soil for some planters I just got to put some Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes in and more radishes.
Hello Ban, Everything, moringa seeds, I just did the same thing. I had them last year and did not plant them. Yes, the yellow watermelons are great. I have seeds but did not plant any. Now you are making change my mind to plant them. I can't have watermelons everywhere, or can I. It seems like you have a plan in place. I thought about okra, but I'll have to see. Do you have problems with my enemy, the squash bug? I hope all your seeds and plants do well.
@@GrowSomethingTasty Vine borers are the ones I hate. Gonna try again this year to grow squash and wrap foil around their stems. We have bad infestations of squash bugs too. They gave my cucumbers a disease one year. There were hundreds all over the vines. Japanese beetles are terrible here too. They eat my greens at night. Even in Winter because I think they live in the soil to stay unfrozen.
Oh yes, I had to perform surgery on my plants to get those vine bores. I have used the foil, and it helps, but I did not do it last year, and I got the bores. I have not figured out a way to beat the squash bugs. Who every makes something to deal with them, will become a billionaire.
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I would recommend getting Jerusalem Artichokes to make an all natural pesticide. Check out the channel Garden Like A Viking to see the process of brewing the concentration for use. You can also grow and eat them. There's 2 other plants that are also basically a universal repellant but I think the artichokes will be best for the US and what you'll prefer. Some herbs may be helpful as well but I'm not sure how they compete and might affect the growth of watermelons. (mint, thyme, basil, etc). Marigolds are also a pretty good repellant for many types of insects.
Your advice is so helpful!! Thank you!.
HEY Jana!!!! I'm glad it was helpful. You are welcome. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for the tips! This is my first year trying to grow watermelons and I was sad there are only 3 but my vines went crazy so tonight I went out and found so many of those suckers and got rid of them. It IS painful but I'd rather have a few really good watermelons than a dozen duds. Such great information!! Thank you again!!
Hey no problem Mojo's Feisty Flock, glad you can use the info. Let me know how your melons turn out.
appreciate you,..the compost tea is new to me,good tips,awsome giant.I hope its your best tasting melon ever
HEY Mike!!! thanks, for the compost tea, I have been using it for years. I hope I get some nice-tasting ones.
Have you ever thought about using a tree trimmer to cut the suckers off on the vines you can't reach without distruring the plant?
HEY Lone Star, I did not think of that. I will definitely consider that if I need to cut them this time. Thanks!!!
Lots of good tips. I planted Georga Rattle Snake water melons last year and feasted on the sweetest melons i ever grew. I'll use your tips to grow maybe some bigger ones this year.
HELLO Dennis, thanks. Georgia Rattlesnake, I never tried it. Now I have to try it, too many varieties to choose from. I hope you get bigger ones this year, I'm trying for a beast of a melon. The Carolina Cross is the one I want to grow next.
@@GrowSomethingTasty I'm going to be planting those Carolina crosses also.I had the seeds ordered for last year but they didnt show up until late. So they will be going in the dirt here in a bout 3 weeks or so.Then cross my fingers Minnesota dont send a snow storm down here !
Are these italian watermelon varieties or if not then have you ever grown varieties like Anguria Crimson sweet and Anguria charleston gray watermelon varieties from Franchi italian seeds company.? Which seeds company you find the best overall.? Plus tell me the procedure of growing watermelon in home’s lawn is same as professional growers do or pruning is not required then.? I am growing cucumber, melons and egg plants in the same soil side by side with watermelons in my home. Is this a good practice to do
I know they are Crimson Sweets. I don't know where they came from originally. I used Baker Creek Seeds for the 1st time this year. They have a large selection. I normally get seeds from my local store like today. It's not a requirement to prune your melons. I have grown big ones without doing it in the past. It does help, especially if you have a hard time getting big ones. I'm not a commercial grower, so I can prune with ease. I don't grow hundreds of melons. I grow cucumbers in my yard also. They are not side by side, though. A subscriber said she planted them side by side, and her melons tasted like cucumbers. She said it was awful. I have not experienced that yet and hope not to ever. She is going to separate them this year. If you can separate those 2 crops, it might be better based on her experience. I am thinking she saved seeds for the previous season, and that's how she had the melon that tasted like a cucumber. Thanks for your questions
Thanks for sharing. I'm growing watermelon 🍉 in a big flower pot for the first time.
HELLO Journey Soul, let me know how that works for you. I have never really grown melons in a pot, but I'm going try something a little different. I can't wait.
HELLO Journey Soul, let me know how that works for you. I have never really grown melons in a pot, but I'm going try something a little different. I can't wait.
I appreciate your info. Just a question: After doing what you have to do, how many fruits do you allow per plant so as to get big fruits such as the one you are showing?
Hey Brother Lee, thanks. Hey, I would leave 2 melons per plant on different vines if you trying to get them big as possible. If you grow a lot of plants, you can try to have just one on. You can also make compost tea and use that to water the plants. You don't have to do that but if your soil is not the best I would. Also buy watermelon seeds that grow to be a decent sized. I'm going to by the Carolina Cross melons to see how big I can get one of those.
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@@planecrazyish Thanks
@@GrowSomethingTastyis this method only for large watermelons on the ground or also for smaller ones on a trellis? How many medium sized watermelons would you leave per plant on a trellis?
Suspected I needed to cut these suckers off. First time grower here. Thanks for your help!
HELLO, I'm glad this video was helpful. Cool, you are a first-time grower. I hope you get nice melons
Thank you! I have watermelon growing now and it's my first time growing 💗 i appreciate the help!
HELLO, California D, you are welcome. I hope you get some nice watermelons. Let me know how it goes for you. If I can help you, just let me know.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thanks so much! Question, the clippings you removed... Can those be transplanted into another container? Will those clippings take root in some soil to start growing a separate Vine? Hmm 🤔
@californiad1141 I tried it, and it did not work for me. I did not try it many times. I will try it again to see if it works.
Thank you from me here in New Zealand..
HELLO Rea Warren, you are welcome. I'm glad you stopped by from New Zealand. This sooooo cool connecting with others all over the world. I really appreciate you stopping by.
Thanks alot.Thanks for your time and for the video.
Hello Elder Samuel, no problem, you are welcome. THANKS for watching, and I appreciate your comment.
Thanks for the tips,I try every year and end up with golf ball sized melons,will try your pruning method. Thank you
HELLO Michael, I can relate. Every year, that was me as well. I hope it works for you. I had people this summer messaging me saying it work. One lady said she grew a watermelon that was 42 pounds. We let me know how it goes next season. I'm working on growing big onions now. I always grew small ones, but I think I got it now. Well, that was my latest video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
❤ thank you for info. First time gardener. Got 10 plants of watermelons and 10 cantelopes. Wish me luck!
HELLO Rhonda, first-time gardener, that is great. You have a lot of plants, and that is awesome. I wish you the best and hope you get a big harvest. Hey, look up the squashbug so you know what it looks like. In my first year of growing watermelons, I did not have any of them. But when they came, they stated. Just keep checking your leaves, and if you see clusters of eggs, remove them. They are brown when they are about to hatch the color, which turns dark bronzes. But you got this. If I can help with a question, let me know.
Wound up here by chance. Nice video, lots of info. Thanks for the suggestions...
HEY Craig!!! Thanks, I'm glad you like the video and the information. It's great that you made it to my channel by chance.
Yes please i want to see the harvesting
HELLO eulalee, if you type, "When to harvest watermelon and type bear brown, that video will come up of me harvesting that big monster melon. THANKS for watching.
First time growing melons myself, thanks for the tips
HELLO Jarvice, you are welcome. I hope you get some nice melons. If you need some advice growing the melons, just let me know. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I really appreciate the tips!!
HELLO, Backyard Gardens, anytime. Thanks for watching.
Thanks guy! Just got my first little roots sprouts yesterday!
HELLO Kylef, that is great. I hope you get a nice crop of melons. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thanks, I have learned a lot from your video. I Live in South Carolina. Now I know what my problems were trying to grow watermelons.
HEY!!! I'm glad you have learned a lot. I'm glad you learned what your problems are. Let me know how your plants do this year. SC cool.
I was living in san antonio texas...tried to grow watermelon had 14 growing...they all burst before I could harvest them...
I don't know if it was the iver watering or failing to cut some melons off to save the rest????
Thank you so much. I am new to growing watermelon. The veins have been growing so crazy all I've done was give them a metal bar to hang on to. Now seeing this.. today I will be triming some back. If I succeed at growing 1 I'll be happy
HEY Mo Perry, you are welcome. You got this, I hope you get many. If you have any questions along the way I here.
Thank you sir for the tips. Im gonna use this information this year as ive never grown melons before and i am hoping this will help make it a successful season!
GREAT, Jason. I'm glad the information is useful.
Yes I would love to see the harvest!
HELLO Dawn, if you type when to harvest watermelon and type bear brown, that video will come up. Thanks for watching and responding
Wow, preparing to grow about 5 acres, very beneficial
HELLO Jonathan, wow, 5 acres you are going to have loads of watermelons. I'm glad it was beneficial.
I'll try this in my garden.Zambia Central Africa
HEY, great! Let me know how it works for you. Thanks for reaching out all the way from Zambia Central Africa, take care my friend!
God bless you brother 4 making this video! Super helpful. I can't thank you enough? Amazing video stay humble stay prosperous stay safe
HELLO, Nate, I'm glad the video was helpful. I appreciate your comment, God bless you, bro.
When you said cut the suckers off reminded me of when we used to sucker tobacco, but not too many people know about growing tobacco 😅
HELLO Gmac One, you are right about that because I'm one of them who does not know anything about growing tobacco 🤣🤣🤣. I have passed by the tobacco fields and warehouses. Was it hard to sucker the tobacco?
Yes it was, those tobacco fields were long. I grew up around a lot of tobacco farmers in South Carolina. I will follow your advice on growing watermelons, hopefully they will turn out good with this being my first time planting them.
❤This is great information! Thank you….I just placed some watermelon seeds in my large containers, so I will see how things go.
HELLO @Business85, thank you. I appreciate it. I hope it works for you. I might try growing melons in containers. Do you plant smaller varieties since you grow in containers?
Thank you for the tips. Those trees look nice in the backround. Lol. Look's like your climate has good weather .
HELLO Jacob's, no problem, you are welcome. My trees are growing, thanks, but this year, I had issues with fireblight with 3 pear trees. I might pull 2 out, but my other trees are resistant to it, they say. Yes, the weather is good and hot. How about your weather? Thanks for watching and commenting.
Well worth the watch. In the international guild of gardeners, you sir have learned the art and craft. Thank you for sharing.
HELLO Otto, I appreciate your comment. Wow! THANKS, for watching and commenting.
Watermelon is pretty fun to grow.
HELLO Aaron, you are so right. They are fun to grow.
Thanks for this video. I'm planting watermelon plants that I had in my window. I will be so excited to see what will happen with my 7 little plants.🥰I am a new subscriber today.
HELLO Felicia, it's no problem, you are welcome. I hope you get some nice watermelons and let me know how the plants turn out. I am also so glad you subscribed today. This is awesome. I'm trying to put out good information every chance I get. Welcome.🤗
Here in North Dakota I've never worried about disses and always soak the entire plant.
My issue is scorching, but I get by that by watering at night
HELLO @sshumakaer, scorching is not good. I think if there is fungus on plants, watering could spread it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
NEW SUBSCRIBER. My watermelon crop is out of control. Almost waist high and pushing vines everywhere. My melons are forming on the vine. I've got a 140' by 140' area these monsters totally overwhelmed me near Fort Worth. I had dug out a trench to fill my raised garden beds. Our summer has been 100 degrees plus with no rain. Lost my other garden stuff due to stress.
The trench was about shovel deep. So I made some hills in the trench. I threw some mulch around them after they came up. Like grass clippings. I threw some fertilizer in the trench. I have thrown lime on them and coffee grounds. About 3 in the afternoon the tall oak tree shade hits the vines. I fill the trench up with water about every 2 days. Best to ya partner. Eaglegards...
They grow out of control. Do you have problems with Squash bugs on your melon plants? Sorry to hear about other garden plants not making it. That mulch helps a lot. I am going to get some more sometime this year. Hope you get lots of melons. Best to you.
@@GrowSomethingTasty Coffee grounds I throw out seem to work for bugs. I get free grounds from coffee shop. Thanks for comment. You're too kind. Be blessed.
@@fastsetinthewest Thanks
Thanks buddy! Just started growing a black diamond watermelon and some regulars!
Good stuff. I didn't know these things.
Thanks, Michael, I'm glad it was helpful. I can't wait to start my melons seeds inside in another week or so. I'm going to do an experiment on a melon plant to show the benefits of mulching. I can't wait for the season. Take care if you have any questions during the season I'm here. I'll help if I can, later.
I’m so glad to find your channel!Ive been trying to find more channels closer to my zone. Idk where you are but I’m near Birmingham, Al which is zone 7b. I could be wrong but it seems like you may be somewhere in the South. Either way, this is my 1st time growing watermelons & your videos have been so helpful. Thank you 😊
HELLO Michelle, I'm glad you found my channel as well. I'm also glad the videos have been helpful. I'm in South Carolina, and 8a is my zone. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
these are some good tips bro, welcome to the fam
Thanks, bro. I appreciate it. I'm glad you like the tips. Alright, fam, take care!
Hi 👋 I use tape to get squash bug eggs off the leaves. I work great.
HELLO Rachel, that is a great tip. I use it, too. I wish I had an answer for field rats. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Preciate it💪🏾
Anytime!!! I see fishing in your name. I'm down with that, I just got back from fishing. That heat is no joke.
Great video I love and needed the details. What zone are you in? Those melons are gorgeous.
Hello Peace Reign, I'm in zone 8a. What zone are you in? Thanks, those melons tasted great.
Good advice I live in Canada and have been experimenting our season is hot and humid but short we have great luck with tomato’s and we trim them for extra energy and I’ll do the same with my wmelon it makes sense but I have a hard time pruning vines that have blossoms but by the end of sept it’s touch and go Oct can be still warm but less sunlight and it could snow or freeze
HELLO @user-zo, I'm glad you like the advice. I had a hard time as well pruning those vines. Snow in October, wow. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I had a laugh when you put the basketball next to the melon, and then immediately thought.......challenge accepted.
Start of summer here, my watermelon (First time melon grower here) plant is about the size of a very small plate at the moment, growing very slowly, but we've had no hot weather yet, we'll see.
HELLO Brendon, I'm glad you accepted the challenge. I hope you have lots of success. It's the start of summer, where are you? It's late fall here. Let me know how it goes or if you need some advice.
Best video I've seen on watermelon
WHAT? HELLO Tommy, I appreciate that, man. Thanks!!! Tommy Smith for President!!
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Lol can't do any worse than what we have now
Thanks for the info. First time growing watermelon in Florida.
HELLO Roger, you are welcome. I hope it goes well for you. Let me know how it goes. I'm releasing a watermelon video later today.
Very cool man... My 1st year in my new place and i planted 7 plants i started from seed packets.. right under my cherry and peach and plum tree's ! Wish me luck ! lol
HELLO Derrell, thanks. That is cool as well. I hope you get nice watermelons. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for the tips. Now i m gonna snip my watermelon. So far mine have been growing double the size everynday
what's up Muhammad? That is great they double in size. Let me know how big they get.
Thanks for the Tips, trying watermelons for the first time. This really helps understand what I should be doing :)
Hello Andy Parker, I'm glad it helps let me know how it goes for you.
So far one of the best watermelon videos I have watched Thank you
Hello Roxana Reyes, thanks for saying that. You are so kind!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience❤
HELLO AnnaN, anytime. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Good video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Michael, I'm going to do my best to keep it up. I appreciate your support!!
Your job is great ❤
Thanks, Green Garden ideas, I appreciate it.
Nice ! Juice Juice...thanks for the tips and all hard work you put in your videos man.
THANKS, MAN!!! I try my best to put out good information and try to get to the point as fast as I can. I looked at some of my first videos, and it was hard to watch, lol. Thanks again for the support.
BB great thanks and keep up the awesome job. Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 is on a watching.
Thanks for watching and your comment. I appreciate it. I see Trinidad and Tobago are watching. That's great, hey, please share with family and friends that like gardening. Thanks again.
New sub. And like many other commenters, 1st yr growing. Brought seeslings after many failed attempts to germinate 🤞🏾🙏🏾🤞🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
HELLO Reggie, welcome to the channel. Thanks for watching and subscribing. I appreciate it. I want to know how your first year goes. Since your seeds did not germinate next time, try soaking them in water for 3 hrs and see if that helps. The seeds could have been a bad batch.
Great info! I will definitely try this on my melons this season. Thank you so much!
HELLO Amyable, thanks. I hope it works for you. Let me know how it grows!!!!!!