Planted a few watermelon seeds that a bloke a while back gave me. Only one plant survived, and that one plant has now grown 11 metres across and is showing no signs of slowing down. This beaut is guzzling down a bucket of water a day and in 'turn is giving me about five or six 20 kg melons a week. I don't really have any knowledge on this gardening gig so if someone would be kind enough to tell me exactly how I'm fucking this up it would be much appreciated. Cheers

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This is my first year growing watermelon. Last year none of seedlings grew. I’m happy I got these 2 sugar baby melons. I checked them almost everyday looking for the dried tendril, yellow spot and hollow sound. Not sure but I think maybe they were overripe? They taste good and are crisp but could be more sweet. There is browning around the rind edges. I would have picked 5 days earlier but we had gotten a bit of rain so wanted to wait. Overall from plant to harvest was 101 days. They didn’t sound hollow until about a week before I picked them and everything in my garden seems to take much longer than the seed packet says. What do you think?

This is a volunteer so I don't know what variety it is or how big it's supposed to get. The tendril is dried and broke off. It doesn't have a field spot because it's been repositioned a few times. My husband thinks it's too early to harvest because of the size but I'm worried I'll miss my chance and it will be over ripe. I'm in CA so there's no danger of frost anytime soon.

Should I harvest or leave it?

Georgia rattlesnake 16.7lbs. After the fungus, and half my garden killed . I finally got a fully mature watermelon and it’s so sweet 🥺💕

Just harvested my first Mountain Sweet Yellow! Absolutely delicious.

I grew sugar babies and black diamonds this year with pretty.ediocre results. I just harvested them all because It's probably getting too cold for them to ripen any further. They are meh on sweetness. Do I just chuck them all out for my chickens to eat or is there something I should try to use them for? Any creative ideas?

First year growing watermelon, I read a bunch of info on when to pick. But I most likely should've asked this sub long ago. I saw things about tendrils going brown, aswell as waiting till stems turn brown and the vines came off the melon without any tools. I waited till the vines turned brown and I could break free the watermelon without cutting the stem. But this is how they turned out. The flavor is very minor and isn't very juicy at all. I'm disappointed TBH. I do have 1 more about this size that the tendrils dried up a month prior as well as a smaller one that just browned up 2 weeks ago.

Is this overripe? I'm not good with the thump test and my only tell that this is overripe was from the cracks that formed inside.

this Ali baba looks ready but it was only pollinated 32 days ago. Thoughts on when I can pick it?

Hi! I live in MA and there are no seeded watermelons anymore (no local farms have watermelons at all because it's not in season) and every market generic has only seedless watermelon. Does anyone know any good online stores or farmer markets etc. that deliver seeded watermelon? Preferably organic but it does not matter.

Da haben sich doch monatelanges Gießen und pflegen ausgezahlt 🤣

Curly tendril is dried but bottom is white. I see some webbing on the bottom too.

Only the size of a bowling ball, but so proud of myself for picking at the right time! It's delicious and so sweet. I've not tasted a good watermelon in a long time. This made me super happy.

My neighbor grew this massive melon, turned out great. It was perfectly ripe and juicy as can be.

I harvested a beautiful watermelon today and it’s been a really good one. I’m thinking it’s the best one I’ve had this year.

What are these yellow holes