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Mocksville, NC

How many fruits do you keep per plant? for a contender, and i see you shade them, and board, and sand them.
Terminate vines? would you please share some ABC'S of growing. I know dah! But what better place to ask, absolute 1st time growing. Thanks
Roger:)

7/9/2009 9:17:10 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

I am a purest, and keep just one melon per plant. I suspect that a plant is smart enough to know that one fruit has viable seeds, and will start working on a second fruit. I just don't let it. After all, in the end there can be only.

I don't terminate vines, but some people do. Try your own experiments to determine which is better.

7/9/2009 10:52:17 AM

sevierville, Tn

Roger, just like the pumpkins, just DON'T bury the vines. I terminate the vines when the space is full & they try to excape !

7/9/2009 2:13:06 PM

formerly RGG

This year I have begun terminating side vines whenever they are growing into area where there are already healthy vines. I figure it is not efficient for 2 vines to be competing for the same area. Rather vines should grow where there is no vine already.Let all the food produced by the leaves go to helping to swell up a big melon instead of growing a small vine that will be shaded and unable to compete with the bigger vines it will be shaded by.

You can definitely grow more pounds of melons if you grow more then one on a plant. You can also definitely grow a bigger melon if you will grow only one melon to a plant.

7/9/2009 9:25:05 PM

Mocksville, NC

Thanks! I had 5 i selfed. Now i have 2, culled 3 today,and have started terminating some of the vines, and hopefully will end up with 1 good one.
Once again thank you all, and great luck!
Rog.

7/10/2009 2:35:53 PM