How to Prune Watermelon Plants?
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Pruning Watermelon vine
01:20 Will pruning cause disease
01:45 Big Watermelons
02:45 Example of Suckers
03:30 Pruning another vine
05:45 Another Sugar Baby
In this video I demonstrate how to prune watermelon plants? There are some nice benefits to prune the watermelon plants. Pruning will increase the size of the melons and focus the energy of the plant to the melon. When there are some many melons on a vine the plant will not be able to provide enough energy for every watermelon. Another benefit of pruning is to keep the plant from running over other plants in the garden. The use of pruning can make the garden area neat. Some people are nervous about pruning watermelon plants because of disease issues. As gardeners we prune many plants and trees so I don't worry about it. Pruning keeps the plants healthy and happy just look at the watermelons in the video.
"Take a look at this juicy juicy."
You're a treasure. Farm on. 😂🎉❤
HELLO Abridgelion, Wow. I appreciate that. Thank you, Abridgelion. 👍👍
I’m glad you posted this today. My watermelons are putting on fruit and this is just what I needed to learn. Man I’m hoping for a successful harvest, I’ve got one sugar baby coming in nice and a few black diamonds and royal goldens. Out of all the stuff I planted this year I feel like my watermelons get my constant attention 😂
HELLO @Yellowcityfishing, thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you get a nice harvest. Let me know how it is going for you.
How'd your harvest turn out?
@@block4565 pretty mixed bag. I had a real big black diamond coming in that I was excited for. I picked it probably a week too soon. I tried to do all the different ways to check for ripeness but I still fumbled the bag. My royal goldens produced a good bit of melons but none of them got very big. Think this year I’m going to up what I feed them and how often.
You have helped me a lot this year. I've been trying to grow watermelons for years. I finally got 6 nice size Sugar Babies growing. Thank you for the video.
HELLO Ms. Understood garden, I'm so glad the videos helped. I am so excited to hear you have 6 nice size Sugar Babies growing. Let me know how it goes and how they taste. Thanks for watching and for leaving that wonderful news about your melons. I appreciate it.
You had me at ..Juicy Juicy.
Will be clipping those vines.
HELLO Ceedee, ha ha! A lot of people said that about those juicy juicies. Let me know how it goes for you. A subscriber message me yesterday saying thanks because the tips I spoke about helped her grow a 39.6 pounder.
I tried this from your prior video along with the compost tea and everything in my garden is growing great! My watermelons are doing so much better than last year! Thank you for the tips!
HELLO @theshoemakimglady, I'm so glad to hear. I'm glad it worked out for you. Thanks for watching and commenting.
excellent video - I am growing 2 wm per plant and it's working great. Combined with the right soil and generous water I got great results. Keep it up my man - quality info and presentation!
HEY, John!!! I'm glad it's working great. I like to have 2 melons on a plant. Thanks, I'm going to do my best to keep it up. I'm glad you like the info.
Very excited to see this! Planted sugar babys myself this year and been pruning since I seen your previous pruning video from few years ago but the size of your sugar baby's in this video is mind blowing 🤯
HELLO, Themightymo, thanks for watching and commenting. Yes, the sugar babies are a really good size. I'm scream even more if I can't save them from the whole kingdom. Wait until I explain the next animal that's attacking. I'm ordering defense items. I hope they come soon before I lose these too.
I’m a fairly new gardener and was wondering how to trim my melons. Thanks so much for this informative video! HAPPY GARDENING❤
HELLO @Kirshang, I'm glad you are gardening and that the video was helpful. Thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it. Let me know how your melons turn out.
Thanks for the knowledge!
HEY @antavina1!!!! Anytime! You are welcome.
Thank you, Bear! Love your channel as a first year watermelon grower!!
HEY, Chrisby911!!! You are welcome. I'm glad you love the channel. I hope you have a great season growing watermelon.
Love watching your show...
HELLO @hillsraaron, thanks. I totally appreciate it. Thanks for watching and loving the show.
Bonjour from France. Thanks for your great videos. You're 100% right. Watermelons have to be pruned, just as you say. One melon per vine produces big fruit.
HELLO from South Carolina, I appreciate the kind words. Yes, I love the results from pruning the melons. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I always wait until they are SET more and a lil bigger to be sure it won't be any blossom end rot or anything. I get 40+ pounders too
HEY, @cheerjax26!!! Cool. That's a great idea and you are getting 40 pounders.
I'm gonna have to try this out for sure!! I'm excited.
HEY Tanya!!! I'm glad you are excited about it and that you are going to try it. You got me excited. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for the information on watermelons. I just went out and pruned mine. Now I will wait and see.
HELLO Renee, I hope you have great success. I saw in the comments that some people said they had success with this. One person said hid melons double in size fast. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you
HEY Candy!!! You are welcome.
It's so on! You got me all excited. I have 2 huge watermelon patches. One from sowing seed the other kids composed watermelom in my flower bed. I can barely see my flowers now.🤣 Happy blessed gardening!
HEY Sugarbearbear!!! That is so cool, you are going to have melons everywhere. Let me know how it goes so I can cheer along. It does not look good for me over here because of voles. I have never had them. Thank you.
I just went and pruned my melons it hurt but I'm trusting this
HEY Victoria!!! Cool, let me know how it grows. When you see how big it gets in 7 days you are going to think it's magic. I did 2 shorts showing the growth of the melon 7 days apart. The titles are Watermelon Pruning and Watermelon Pruning Results Part 2. You can see how fast they grew.
They have gotten a little bigger but they are taking so slow for me idk why
Great video! I was just in my garden and have about 4 or 5 melons already growing and I remembered I need to prune them to make them huge, so this was just what I was looking for! Thanks, and good luck with yours!
HELLO JAY, that sounds great. I'm glad you like the information. Let me know how the melons turn out. I hope you get giants. Thanks, I'm getting close to cracking one open today. I had my first fruit from my fruit trees. Those Asian pears are the best. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Growing SugarBaby in my garden this year. 10 melons spotted so far. One vine has two, but all the rest are the only one on that vine. Looking forward to watching your other watermelon focused videos to get even more tips!
HELLO, AdirondackRuby, that is awesome. You have spotted that many melons. It's great to hear that you want to see more of my videos. I hope it helps. Thanks for the support, I appreciate it.
Thank you for the video! Keep up the good videos my friend! Keep going you’re almost there!
HELLO Mrgiantbomb, thanks for the support. I will try to keep good videos. I really appreciate your comment, my friend.
Great info. Thanks!
HELLO Bungalo Bill, you are welcome. Anytime!
This is just the information I needed! I have little tiny melons the size of my hand mid August and I don't have much time left in summer to grow these babies big. First time watermelon grower here in zone 5😂😂🤪
HELLO Heidi, I'm happy to hear that. I hope it works for you, and let me know if you have any questions. Let me know how it goes for you.
THANKS Bbro i wont be affraid to cut the melon vine now.
God Bless you from North Wales,UK
HEY Justin!!! You are welcome, bro! I am glad to hear. North Wales, UK, COOL, and good bless you.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thank u mate. i also started woodchip gardens
Glad you posted this video. Very informative and short
HELLO @tallmanfreity, I'm glad the video was helpful. I try to keep it short as I can. Sometimes, I give a lot of detail. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much
HELLO Innocent mabuza87, you are welcome. I just want to share what works for me. It might help others. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank You. This was helpful.
HELLO Aaron, I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it
I have some pumpkins growing in my garden this year and I’m going to apply your logic and CUT the vine and see if that improves the pumpkin’s growth and size. Thanks for the tip Bear.
No problem Jeff any time. Let me know how it goes
Thanks for sharing! Working on my melons today!
HEY, Majordadsc!!! You are welcome. Do you have a lot of melon plants? I might get out there later today myself.
@@GrowSomethingTasty yes! They are doing really well this year. Glad I found your page!
Great inspiration video. 🏆🌟 Im growing mine in containers and im going to prune my vines tomorrow as its the weekend.
HELLO Arefa Energy, I hope it turns out great for you. Let me know how it goes. Where are you from? We are in fall now heading into winter soon. Thanks for watching and responding. I really appreciate it.
Awesome definitely will share yr videos
HELLO Sierra, thanks. I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Great video. I’m working on my first watermelon plants from seed. Thanks for the info, you earned another subscriber.
HEY Joe!!! I hope you get a nice watermelon. You are welcome and I appreciate your subscription. Thanks for your comment.
Thank You For The Information😊 Ima Try This Method!!
HEY @DoloWrldMotivation!!! You are welcome. Let me know how it works for you.
Thank you for sharing your video. This will be the second year growing sugar baby melons, ive never pruned leaves. I learned something new today I'll be pruning my plants. 😊
HEY, Patricia!!! You are welcome. How did your melons do last year? Cool, I did not prune my leaves for years. It's something I added later. Let me know how it goes.
@@GrowSomethingTasty the sugar babies didn't get to big but the flavor was amazing
thank you
You're welcome, anytime.
Thanks from a swede in Bulgaria.
HEY, Riffmakare!!! You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thanks!
HELLO Emmett, thanks for the Super Thanks. This is the 1st time ever. Can I shout you out on my next video? I would use your first name, if not, it's all good. Thanks again, just the thoughtfulness made my day!!!! Alright, bro, have a good day.
Thank you for sharing this information!! I am finally growing watermelons so I am going to try this out. I need to watch your other videos to see what else you share. I cut my squash vines this year because they can get so out of control and they had so many female flowers. I have already noticed that the squash developing on the vines I trimmed back are growing really well. Plus, I don’t need that many squash. Gardening is always interesting😊 Thanks, again❣️
HELLO @BlackOnyxCat, you are welcome. Let me know how it goes for you. I don't know if you saw some of the comments. A few people tried it, and it worked for them. One guy said his melons double in size. I'm like, yeah, that's it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This is my first time growing sugar baby watermelon. I sowed 4 seeds in a 16 inch container just to make sure I get at least one and a back up. However, two plants are growing crazy now. I couldn't bring myself to cut a plant. One of the plants has a pea size watermelon growing. Since temps are in the 90s, a third seedling popped up😬.
Hey, are you going to pull the 3rd seedling? I been there before and did not pull the plant. It's hard to do, but if you have issues after the first time or next year. You will eventually start trying new things like pulling a plant.. Hey, and some people have made it work, so I wish you the best. It is so hard to pull plants once they come up
@@GrowSomethingTasty Thank you 🤗. Yes, I think I will pull the third one😢. The two plant vines are growing so fast in this hot weather. I'm trying my best to trellis them up a ladder. I have to be careful when I trellis because the vines snap easily.
@BlessWithTalent you could carefully pull it and try not to disturb the roots. I pulled and planted in a random spot now I have laundry basket and ground watermeloms to compare growth
Love ya bro thanks for info you funny 😂 keep it up bro
HELLO Bert, I appreciate you. Thanks for the support. I will do my best to keep it up.
Awesome job
Thanks!
Love your channel
HELLO @hdcoletti, thanks. I'm glad to hear. I appreciate the support.
I'm gonna do that tomorrow..Thanks
HELLO Angela, cool. Let me know how it goes. Thanks for watching and commenting.
With your tips I'm going to grow something tasty, juicy juicy.
That's right!!! I believe you. Let me know how juicy juicies do.
Beautiful watermelons!
HELLO summerbreeze, I appreciate it. Hopefully, they taste good if animal kingdom don't get them. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I'm the 1000th like!
(thank you for the informative video)
HEY Craig!!! Wow, the 1000th like! That is awesome. I did not know it had that many. You are welcome! I'm trying to get better with the videos.
Awe I love opossums 🥰😘 I had one as a pet once. Poor baby looks so scared. Please tell me you set it free in the wild. 🍉thanks for the great pruning tips. It’s my first time growing watermelon 🍉 I’m so excited. 🥰
HEY Dolly!!! Yes, I released him in the wild but it took forever. He did not want to leave the cage. I hope you get some nice watermelons.
@@GrowSomethingTastyHe knows where the good food is.😊
It really works ❤❤❤❤❤❤
HEY Rondey!!! I'm glad it worked for you. It's so crazy how this works.
Thanks Bear
HELLO Chuck, you are welcome.
ooh WEE- that sugar baby!!! 🍉
HELLO CURLYKIKI, yes, those sugar babies are big. Thanks for watching.
Good 👍 ❤
Thanks ✌
I live in Southern OH & so far I think I have one pewny sugar baby watermelon starting. I don't even see any on my crimson sweet, just vines growing everywhere!!! This is my first time growing watermelon!!! I will have to try & find that pewny melon & then cut the vine!!! Thanks for your help!!!! 🤗
HELLO @kels3972, I hope you get more melons. Next time, you may need to pollinate if it's due to pollination. Let me know what happens. Thanks for watching.
@@GrowSomethingTasty Aww, thank you!! I do believe it's from me not hand pollinating them. Something isn't right!! LOL!! Oh well, hopefully I'll have better luck next year!!! I am not giving up!!! I am determined to at least grow one watermelon!! 🤣🤣 Thanks again for your helpful videos!!!! Have a nice day & enjoy your beautiful watermelons!! 🤗🍉🍉
❤ 🍉🍉🍉be looking yummy this year!
Yes, the melons do look yummy. I try to eat as much as I can because out of season watermelon is not good to me.
Juicey, juicey...lol Thanks for sharing...lol I think I made a mistake with trying to trellis mine.
HELLO @Gardening Today, you are welcome. Hopefully, I can protect those Juicey Juices. Is the trellis not strong enough? The wind got me last time I'm going to try again. Hopefully, next year. Thanks for watching.
@GrowSomethingTasty HI there, I think I used the wrong gage type of wire to trellis with. It's holding up, barely...😆 I think I should have used a cattle panel. The one thing I've learned is to learn, from what does work and what doesn't work for me. There's no one way to garden. Sometimes, my mistakes turn out to be a blessing. But we will see on these melons....😆 🤣 I share what it looks like in my last video.
This is my first year growing melons, didnt know i'm suposed to prune them but relieved to learn this bcz they've taken over! I cant even see where all the melons are it's so dense. I planted pumpkins among them as well! 🤦🏻♀️ maybe this is fixable now that I know its ok to cut vines. vines look healthy in spite of the competition for nutrients. Zone 9 (or 10 not sure)CA, long growing season so i hope theres time to still grow to full size.
HELLO BLUEBIRD, you don't have to prune them. I just do it to keep it cleaner, but the main reason is that the melons get larger when I do this. Big-time farmers don't do it because they have too many plants, and they fertilize heavily so they can get away with it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
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EXCELLENT COVER STORY AND GREAT WORK..🧐🧐🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾BLACK TAIL MOUNTAIN...IS EARLYER..THAN SUGAR BABY.
HELLO Jrscott, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and commenting. I never grew black tail mountain. I'm going to try that, hopefully next year.
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Thanks, Christopher!!!
i trim and cut the suckers off of water melons last year 2023, melons was littler smaller than footballs ,a guy told me to cleaned my cutting shears with alchol, well i did and all melons plants died hope you can tell what i did wrong, could it been the alchol [loved your viedo] thanks
HEY Lora!!! I'm so sorry to hear that. Did the plants get some type of disease? Did you notice any bug damage like squash bugs. The guy told you that so you don't transfer disease from plant to plant. I did not do that for my melons. I do take wipes to clean my shears for my tomato plants. I really don't know. I would try pruning a couple of plants this year and leave some melon plans alone to see what happens. If all of them die, then it's something else. Please let me know what happens. I received a lot of comments saying a lot of gardeners had their best melon season ever. I'm glad you love the videos!! That means a lot. I talk to you later, I'm going to be outside for 8 hours in a rain storm fishing a tournament.
thanks i see what happened this year
@@GrowSomethingTasty
Have you ever successfully propagated a vine with a melon that you accidentally cut or broke? I did this yesterday when I was cleaning up some vines, accidentally broke a vine off that had a mid developed melon on it. It was quite disappointing. Thank you for the videos! Just found them today.
HELLO Trilldan, I have not been successful at it, but I'm trying again today. I'm sorry to hear about your vine. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
First time growing melons. I have sugar babies & vines are taking over. Just now starting to flower. Do i wait to see meolns starting before i prune vines? Your videos are top notch!
HELLO Bibgrl, I'm glad you are growing melons. First-time melon grower good stuff. Yes, wait until you have a melon on it. I would make sure tur melon takes. When my melons are a little knob that's when I cut mine. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you for the informative video! I have a question, can i cut the main stem of a watermelon plant if it has a melon forming on it? Or you can only prune all the other vines but the main one?
HEY @szimnettabukta!!! I'm glad you like the information. When you see the melon has formed you can cut the vine. I leave all the vines on the plant unless it is a sucker. You can have one melon per vine if you want.
Thanks for sharing. I'll be doing some pruning soon. I was wondering how to control the vines without harming the growing melons. My vines seem to have taken over other plants. Thanks!
HELLO @Marlona, you are welcome. I hope it works for you. I might put out a short tomorrow showing what that melon looks like after I pruned it. It's so crazy how that one grew from 6 days ago. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I pruned this morning. I'm looking forward to seeing how it works. I'll definitely be looking for your short.
Great info ! Would pruning cantaloupes be the same ?
HEY, Izzy!!! I don't do it for my cantaloupes, but you can. I would just pull the small fruit off the plants if I was doing it. The vines don't get as long as the watermelon vines.
@@GrowSomethingTasty Thank you ! I subscribed .
Also.. does it work for cantaloupe as well? Thanks
HEY, it does work for cantaloupes but I like to prune the fruit if I do it with them. I say that because the watermelon vines are so long compared to cantaloupes. I just like to leave the vines and take off the fruit.
How do you propagate them when you cut that vine that is producing flowers for new watermelon how can you save that and then get watermelon from there to...
HELLO Mary, I have tried and have not been successful yet. I will try again next year to see if I can do it. I put the stem in a jar of water to see if they grow roots. One grew lots of roots, but I was late putting it up. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hey Teddy Ruskin have you ever grown the tiny sweet rich melons or Kajari melons. They only take about 60/65 before harvest. I got some seeds coming.
HELLO Angeline, I have never grown them. Let me know how it goes. I'm trying to stop field rats now. This has been crazy.
Oh damn I hope you crush them bitches cause they hard to kill. When I tried to kill one before I had his tail trying to stab it and he detached his darn tail....lol smdh
First time watermelon gardener here. Do I prune before or after a watermelon is on the vine? Thanks for video!!
HEY, Cdavis!!! First-time grower GREAT!!!! I prune after the small melon. Hey, I just released a flow up short from last week to show why I started pruning. The growth is insane. The short last week was Watermelon Pruning, and today's short is Watermelon Pruning Result Part 2. In 7 days, that melon more than tripled in size. That's only if you want to see real-time evidence. Thanks for watching.
Hi, my sugar baby watermelon vines are growing and blooming since April, but no signs of watermelons. Do I need to fertilizer again?
I looked at your other video and did my painful pruning a few days ago ...I'll let you know how it goes😑
HELLO Veronica, yes, please let me know how it goes. You are going to walk by that plant and say, "Wow". I hope you tell me that.
Do I have to wait to cut the flowers until I see the little watermelon forming ?
HEY @CrossCaptures!!! I would wait until I have a pollinated watermelon before I start cutting.
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HEY, MissPeachCobbler!!! That's right!!! Thanks for watching!!!
How many watermelon do u grow per plant
HELLO Ebubeudenkwo, I grow one melon per vine. If you tube, how many watermelons to grow per plant and type my name. That video will come up, and I give a few other options. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Are the sweet crimson the same has sugar babies. I planted 2 sweet crimson and there vines are everywhere lol . I haven’t pruned yet. So this will be my first time. Got a few watermelons growing on them. So hopefully I get some big melons
HELLO TONYYAH, They are different melons. The Crimson Sweet ls can grow to a massive size, and sugar babies don't get that big. I hope your watermelons grow to be large.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thank you brother appreciate the feedback and keep making awesome content. 💪🏾
Im growing watermelons in conteiners in 4 and 5 gallons. I have one of each on my little field if they go wrong. My moonbean and sugar babies have been growing fast and are forming a few watermelon but now they have stopped my biggest watermelon is the size of a mango and the end of the tendrill is browning out. I have put a lot of granular fertilizer. My liquid fertilizer who is seaweed and kelp havent been doing much to my garden. I used it when i want a fast acting fertilizer but i see no improvement on most of my plants. I have a worm bin i started a month ago maybe its a microbe issue and the fertilizer just doesnt breakdown in my pots as fast as it should
HELLO @Barchat, I had a worm been years ago. It took a while to build up a lot of worm castings, at least when I did it. I used the liquid at the bottom of the bend. I hope you have success with the melons. I need to look up moonbean. I had never heard of them before. A master gardener told me that granular fertilizer takes a while before it breaks down, but I always put it in and around my planting hole. He said that when he fertilize in the spring and summer, that fertilizer is for the fall and winter. I try to do that as well. I still think you will get some effects of the fertilizer. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@GrowSomethingTasty i do put fertilizer on my planting hole. Theres something always wrong and its nitrogen from my conteiners and one of my beds. My strawberry bed grow almost in full now compost and they always look sick and have sign of deficiencies, i eradicated spider mites with a natural insecticide. The soil tests always come out with almost no nitrogen. I poured blood meal on them this time same for my conteiners plans and watermelons. My other bed is doing fine. Massive pepper plans, carrots, swizz chard and onions. My container plants alway end up yellowing and its hard to fix them. I have bindweed on my beds that i constantly have to pull everyday but i doubt its the thing that dries nitrogen. The two watermlons on my field are doing fine so far. The main vine Is still growing
So you just grow one watermelon per plant? or do you have 3-4 vines (main vine and suckers) growing and once you get one watermelon on each then you cut top of each of them?
HEY @hemalsgolwala!!! I have one watermelon per vine. I like to have 2 melons on a plant so I can get size to them. If you don't want large melons on the vine then you can grow more on the plant. I have a video called How Many Watermelons to Grow on a Plant.
After you pick the melon will you get another flower on that same vine or is it done for the season?
HEY, ZKC2!!! It could happen or not!!! See, I cut the vines so no more melons grow passes that melon. Some flowers may come up before it melon. The plant is going to try to produce flowers as long as it's healthy. It's not done until your grow season is over.
Does this method also apply to cantaloupes?
HEY @windstorm!!! Yes, it's the same principle. I like to just take the melons off because the vines are not big like the watermelon plants.
Melon problems: "Bears try to get a melon!"
HEY Knut!!! I am sorry to hear that. The only Bear trying to eat my watermelons is me. Where do you live?
What do you use to keep the bugs off of them
I had picked them off, complained planting, and Soapy water. I have a video for Squashbugs and a video for cucumbers. They both helped me. This has been the best year against Squashbugs, but the animals are killing me. This is the first year I had all these issues. My next video will explain why I think that is
I'm about to go out and cur vines for the first time. .I'm scared. I have 6 growing on 2 plants, but in ND the season is getting late.
HELLO @sshumkaer, let me know how it goes. Are the melons small now?
My sugar baby has a watermelon but it growing weird and looks lopsided but seems fine otherwise any suggestions?
HELLO Rowanstec, I would just keep an eye on it, and if it looks like it's starting to rot, cut it off. If it looks a little funny, but it seems fine, keep letting it grow. I've had a fee to look like that, and they were good, but just remember it it starts to turn bad and cut it. I don't why that happens.
Hello new to your channel. I have a question for you. I have what they call Sweet melons that don't grow like Vines they have like a rhubarb plant to them. And can I prune them the same way I would prune a Vine or say tomato plant? Thank you. We hit the like button and subscribed
HEY Timothy!!! I appreciate the support by hitting the like button and subscribing. Sweet melons, are you talking about cantaloupes? If so I don't cut the vines because I like having a lot of cantaloupes. It will work but I would just cut the fruit off instead of clipping the vines. The watermelons seem like they go for miles. I grew a 6-pound cantaloupe last year.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thank you for getting to me and taking the time. I do a lot of aquaponics but now we're starting to do like gardening to set up a permaculture garden
Nice ! Tell us how to identify a male or female flower. My melon plants are crawling around all over with just yellow flowers and no melons.
HELLO Skyking, thanks. The female flowers have little fruit under the flower. If it doesn't have the tiny melon, then it's a male.
I have a question.. I must've missed your follow-up video on trellising BIG watermelons. My space is small and need to somehow trellis on a smaller scale(#gatedcommunitygarden) How did yours turn out with supporting BIG melons?
HELLO Sasha, it was good until the bad wind storm knocked them off. I was able to get one. For that size melon, those bags were not good for that wind. I think my title was when things went wrong in the garden. I need to watch it because the animals are winning. How big are your melons. The bags work for honeydew size melons. I will definitely look for the material next year and try it again for sure.
This is my first time growing watermelons. I am only a second-year gardener. I am expecting the package says giant-sized watermelon. I was thinking that I might need to use pallet wood to try and make a trellis that with support heavy watermelons but I haven't figured out the rest yet. So far it's just a large and traveling vine, but I anticipate it trying to plow right through my greens if I don't get it under control and have a plan early on
No flowers yet
Hey! I'm new to gardening. I have allowed my vines to grow too long. How do I prune when they are up to 3 or 4 feet long with one to 2 fruit on the plant? What do you do for natural weed control I'm garden as well? Thanks
HEY @ PeeblesSounds!!! I cut the vine right after the melon and that's about it. You can prune it down to the size of the vine you want. You can use mulch like woodchips to keep down the weeds but I still have weeds in my garden. I have to keep pulling them.
@GrowSomethingTasty Thank you! I wanted to make sure if I cut it down to smaller size that it wouldn't affect the growth and fruit.
I wonder if this affects the sugar content of the melons?
HELLO John, my melons taste good and sweet. I always back off watering to increase the sweetness.
So you only keep one fruit per plant?
Hey Brian!!! No, I keep at least 2 but it depends. Sometimes I leave one melon per vine, so if a plant has 4 vines, I have 4 melons. I did a video called How many watermelons to grow per plant? I list a couple of options but it depends on the grower.
What do you mean by the ‘suckers’?
HELLO Stacky, the side shoot that comes from the main vine is what we call the sucker. If you can't see it in that video, in the video, How to Care for Watermelon Plant, has an example in it. That's the 30-pounder melon on the vine. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope that helps.
So what happened to the sucker u cut off did it grow in soil?
HELLO Justin, it died. I was able to grow roots from the cutting, but it did not make it. Thanks for watching and for your question. I see another one I need to prune, so I'll try again.
@@GrowSomethingTasty ok cool thanks for the reply
Are you selling any of your juicy juice cross pollinated seeds? I’m interested
HEY Kaylee I'm not. I have got around to selling things like that yet. I don't know if those will produce a melon like that again. If the seeds produce a melon like that again, then I will feel good about selling them.
I will try this to my watermelon babies..be back😅
HELLO LIlJeff, cool. Let me know how it grows. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I made the mistake of mixing my moonbean and sugar babys. I have moonbean seeds but no more sugar baby ones. Im going to have to buy some because the seeds if i get any watermelon could be compromised. Couldnt tell them apart until they start to put watermelons
Yes, I do that too, especially with my tomato plants. I have to wait until they grow to tell what they are. I always I'm will do better but I don't. I did that with my peppers this year as well
My watermelon grew up my fence and has two watermelon what should I do
HEY Lori!!! You can trellis them by buying a fruit hammock to hold it. One subscriber said they used pantyhose to keep them up. She said it held up a 40-pound melon. I said that's awesome I don't know how she did it. Can you undo the plant so that it's off the fence if you don't want to trellis it?
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Question: do i have to pollinate the female plant with the male plant?
You can let the bees do it, that's what I do. I know some gardeners don't have a lot of bees and they use the male flower to pollinate the female flower.
@@GrowSomethingTasty we don't have any bees. How many times do I need to polinate the female plants?
How do you water and what about fertilization?
HELLO envisionstar, I made an irrigation system this year for my melon patch. I did have other melons plants in my food forest. I wanted to feed them compost tea, so that's why I made the irrigation system. Having the woodchips down, I don't have to water much. Unless I don't get any rain. I'm doing a garden tour video tomorrow. If you watch it, most of the garden does not have irrigation, and I don't water like the peppers plants. I did not water them. I watered at planting. I use compost tea for fertilizer.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thank you for the response. Do you make your own compost tea or use a starter formula, or what exactly do you do? If you wanna save for a video thats cool too. Thank you!
I just started growing 2 and they are really small and getting eatin by animals. What to do?
Do you know the animal? I'm having trouble with voles eating the roots. You can put a metal basket over the melons to stop the animal from eating them.
@@GrowSomethingTasty thanks I’m really not sure. I think it’s the groundhog
Your tip definitely helped..all of my mellons have doubled in size...thanks bruh
HELLO Christopher, that is great. Let me know what the end results are. I just got finished running these animals away today. I hope I get a melon. They are eating them and cutting the vines, I'm losing big melons. I glad yours are doing great.
I lost 2 little melons. I just have 2 remaining. The vine snapped. Do you think the plant will produce more?
HELLO Goodvibesnewlevel, I'm sorry to hear your vines snapped, I can relate that the animals are snapping mine. It's a good chance a side shoot will grow, and melons can be on the side shoot.
Thank you for your reply. This is my first time growing watermelons in zone 5. I am hoping for success. Thank you for your recommendations. God bless.
If a watermelon falls off already pruned vine, would you cut off the entire vine off at that point?
HEY, gamerclown!!! I have never had that question before but I will leave it just in case another flower pops up. The remaining leaves will provide energy for the plant. That's just my opinion.
@@GrowSomethingTasty my luck I guess just watched ur video and went to prune my plant. Chopped off all the suckers and past the melon..... looked at the vine and it just popped off. I pollinated it like 3 days ago maybe too early to prune. Still have another one and one just appeared. Last year I was late and cut off the entire vine by accident where only melon was lol. I'm in NJ so not a lot of time to ripen these.
@gamerclownz2783 Sorry to hear that. This time, wait until you know for sure it's been pollinated. Since you have a shorter time frame than me.