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Corryton, TN

Is anyone getting odd shaped fruit besides me? Doesn't seem to matter if they're controlled or open pollinated, or what genetics. Banana, pear/gourd and a few hourglass. Is it heat? Can't decide when/if to cull them. Most are growing well, just ugly.

7/7/2012 1:25:20 PM

formerly RGG

I have only one melon with a good shape to it. All my others are as you described. I simply go with whatever looks like it is growing the best.

7/7/2012 1:31:11 PM

South East

Odd ones here too except the one we have going on your 165b plant Dave...Its a bomb...:)Gaining 4.5 to 5lb a day now...est 35 plus whatever todays measurements will be...

7/7/2012 1:49:25 PM

Bethlehem CT

Same here. A ton of oddball shaped ones.

7/7/2012 5:10:20 PM

Alabama

Brotherdave, I have had three twin sets and females with the male flower growing out of the side of the female. It has to be the heat and lack of rain. We have not had any rain for two months now so my plants are not doing to well, despite my best efforts to keep them wet.

7/7/2012 8:48:35 PM

Valencia Spain

got pear shape on holloway 209

7/8/2012 5:05:48 AM

Williamsburg,KY

Ive had a few odd shapes, but mostly big and fat.

7/8/2012 8:13:52 AM

Western NY

do pear shapes usually grow out of it eventually?

7/8/2012 8:42:52 AM

SW Ohio

My 185 was a pear shape. That's why I called it butternut ;) It never totally outgrew it but I think if I would have been able to finish it out it might have. At weigh off time, the blossum end was still fatter than the stem end but not by much

7/8/2012 10:58:24 AM

sevierville, Tn

my experience says only slight pears grow ok. anything else stays a pear. once a pear, always a pear, its just that you can get a good melon from a slight pear.

7/8/2012 12:37:05 PM

sevierville, Tn

i think its the heat, i didn't have any till it got hot.

7/8/2012 12:38:14 PM

Valencia Spain

do u think i should cull my pear, its a very pear shape

got a new melon on same plant thats normal at the moment?

7/8/2012 2:57:51 PM

Rochester, Minnesota

I believe the flower is inconsistently taking up the pollen during the heat. None of my pollinated and iced females were odd shaped this year. Some of my open pollinated ones were. We have had consistently 90-100 temps here, even topping out at around 102.

7/9/2012 10:22:04 AM

Mt Vernon Ky

That's all I got is pear shape hoping for the best

7/9/2012 11:44:27 PM