Hi everyone... This is just a quick video showing how to prune your watermelon plants to produce healthier and tastier fruits. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below.
This information was very helpful. I did not know you could grow that much healthy fruit from one plant after purning. Thank you for sharing this helpful infomation... Awesome video!!
thank you for sharing! I grow watermelons in my garden in mild climate for 4 years already, aleays having quite a good yeald. but i've never actually pruned my vines.. I will try it, so that plants will not get "overloaded" by the nutrition demand of the rest of the potential fruits
This is the MOST useful watermelon video I've watched in 3 days of research. Do you have a follow up for later in the season? What about side shoots that come off the vines the melons are on? Save or cut? THANK YOU!
Thank you. I can't even walk through all the vines to water them, but I was afraid to hurt the plant by pruning. Now it won't be easy for me to find which vines come from which plant, but I will try my best.
Thanks so i guess each vine has 1 melon and 6 vines equals 6 fruits but what do you do with the flowers if the fruit is in the back and the flowers in front are cut off? Thanks again!!
Hi neemafrica, that's very good question. Well the reason is because not every vine will produce a fruit. Remember it is only the female flower that can develop into a fruit.
Thank You for the great video and information. No more then six melons per plant. And two per vine.. If you have three vines with two melons each, Do you prune off any other vines to help the plant and the three producing vines? Any information woud be great. Again Thank You.
If the wm plant has produce more than 6 fruit already what of the other fruit coming out of the 4th and 5th vine, should i cut vine or cut the fruit of the vine
My watermelon are not going to market. They are going to my table. Since I am not concerned about shelf life, but just good sweet watermelon, do I need to prune as many off? Thanks.
the more you prune the bigger the remaining watermelons, so it comes down to personal choice...a few good sized ones(but also the risk if they fail you have nothing) or you can not prune and have lots of small watermelons
Hi Kara pate, the short answer is yes... As I tried to explain in the video we prune to ensure top quality of final produce. So simply pick the melons you'll like to grow into nice healthy finished produce and snip off the rest... Think about it as less mouths to feed. But do make sure the melons have formed on the vine before you snip off the rest of the flowers/pods you wish to disregard. Best of luck with your melons.
Marzouq there is no straight-forward answer here... Each additional growing tip takes-up nutrients. I would recommend keeping one support vine (an additional non-fruiting vine) per fruiting vine (vine with one forming melon). One will have to remove the female flowers from the support vine so that additional fruits don't form. Additionally, examine your manure (fertiliser) application. After fruit set, one should apply manures (fertiliser) higher in potassium and phosphorus, as nitrogen mainly encourages more vegetative development. Happy growing!!!
This is a very good question... We mainly prune because we want to control the outcome of the final fruit and also reduce the occurrence of pests/infections. As a general rule, the fewer melons per plant the less stress the plant would undergo. A less stressed plant, will be able to withstand pests/infections better than one under stress. If this is your first time growing a vine fruit, I would suggest letting nature take charge. If you have sufficient space for multiple melon plants then experiment pruning one or two and see how the results turn out. Happy gardening...
This line of thinking holds true with plants in general, I just never thought of applying it to melons. After watching my melons through this season, I can see where this makes a lot of sense. I will definitely try this next year.Thank you for expanding my thinking.
usually, the seed packet says to give them 24 inches of spacing between plants and 8-12 ft spacing between rows, asssuming they will keep growing until the end of the season... If you are pruning your plants that short, there's really no for 8 ft of row spacing is there? What is your spacing for this method? And when you do prune, does it produce side shoots? Thank you!
I understood him to say 6 melons total, so if he ends up with two polinated fruits on every vine, he would then prune off all but 3 runners, or vines. I suppose it would be just as good to have one melon on 6 runners, but I'm no expert.
Hmm.. this is a tricky question as we generally don't grow in pots because the watermelon has very deep roots and she's a heavy feeder... So it would depend on a few factors like what is the size of the pot, type of soil/compost mix, expected sunshine and temperature as well as the variety of the watermelon (large or small fruit) just to mention some key considerations. To be on the safe side I would suggest that you limit each potted watermelon plant to 2-3 fruits. Remember she needs a lot of sun to produce nice juicy fruits so I would also recommend to use a tendril to help expose the vines to maximum sunshine. Best of luck Deepak Gurung and do update us on how it turns out.
Climate and soil condition are also concerns. If you are growing melons in Nigeria, then I'm sure your climate and soil condition is better than pretty much anywhere in the USA.
6 watermelons from each plant 😳... I'll be happy to get 1 good watermelon the entire season. 😄 best video on the topic, hands down. Thank you!!!!
Don’t feel bad water melons are the hardest thing to grow
Finally a good video on how to prune melons, nearly impossible to find any others.
This is the most informative and straight to the point video I’ve found. Thank you!!
The man sure loves cucumbers. Great video.
15 videos and finally i find the right one. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
This information was very helpful.
I did not know you could grow that much healthy fruit from one plant after purning.
Thank you for sharing this helpful infomation... Awesome video!!
Most helpful watermelon growing video I've seen! Thank you for dropping knowledge!
Love yur teaching so simple
thank you for sharing! I grow watermelons in my garden in mild climate for 4 years already, aleays having quite a good yeald. but i've never actually pruned my vines.. I will try it, so that plants will not get "overloaded" by the nutrition demand of the rest of the potential fruits
My family and I are growing our first watermelon plant. This video has been very helpful. Thank you very much!
Hank you for sharing. Watching you from Ghana
This is the MOST useful watermelon video I've watched in 3 days of research. Do you have a follow up for later in the season? What about side shoots that come off the vines the melons are on? Save or cut? THANK YOU!
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I'm so glad coming across ur channel right now. I just planted watermelon couple of days back, and this video is gonna save d day. Thanks for sharing
Entertaining and very educational video, much appreciated, I recently got some watermelons growing and I'm glad I watched this first ✊🏾💯 keep it up👌🏾
Great. Much clearer. Thank you.
Very helpful; Thanks For your time.
Best watermelon 🍉 video I’ve seen. Thank you. Please make more.
That was perfect. Exactly my question and every one else's. Thank you!
This was helpful. Thank you so much!! 💐
Great information!!
thanks brother for the valuble tips , it is much help to me and my first time growing food to feed my family, god bless
Thanks for the tips!
Very good. Clear, fast, and informative. Thank you.
Amazingly helpful! God bless you and your best harvests! Have a nice day!
Thanks my brother...for the useful information
Nice farm..new friend here
Great video! Thank you and may God bless you and your family.
Very clear description. Thanks.
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Awesome video brother, thanks for sharing and I hope you have a blessed season.
Very useful information. Thank you.
thank you sir.... Very well done.
Great video. Greetings on the hard work!
Well said...thank you
Great video! Watching this from Germany and wishing you could load up more educational videos. Thank you!!!
Thanks from Texas
Great video ~ thank you
I hope you make more videos. Very useful information.
Thank you!!
Thank you. I can't even walk through all the vines to water them, but I was afraid to hurt the plant by pruning. Now it won't be easy for me to find which vines come from which plant, but I will try my best.
Thank you brother!
Very helpful video 👌
GREAT VIDEO
Thanks for your info in your next video tell us your feeding methods.
love the accent
Thank you for your informations, I learned something today ! I have a small garden and I didn't know about this method so, very thanks!
You are most welcome... Happy gardening
Thanks! And I will follow more of your videos because I am sure I have much more to learn from you!
Splendid work!
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Thank you
Interesting
Very good tips. Yhx
Wow this is very helpful. At what stage does one have to start pruning the vines and does one always have to leave 3vines
Very good
Thanks so i guess each vine has 1 melon and 6 vines equals 6 fruits but what do you do with the flowers if the fruit is in the back and the flowers in front are cut off?
Thanks again!!
Hi bro ..when time this practice will be required to the crop
hello is this clay soil?
Should i live eny vine that did not produce fruit, or i should cut away the vine
Which seed variety is this one?
Great video ! good information, thank you it’s very helpful. first time watching your channel
What the name of this variety?
Hello! thank you so much for sharing.
my qn is if we only need 6 wmelons from each plant, why are we keeping 2 fruits per vine?
Hi neemafrica, that's very good question. Well the reason is because not every vine will produce a fruit. Remember it is only the female flower that can develop into a fruit.
I grow 3 hactres of watermelons is it possible to prune them
Thank You for the great video and information. No more then six melons per plant. And two per vine.. If you have three vines with two melons each, Do you prune off any other vines to help the plant and the three producing vines? Any information woud be great. Again Thank You.
If the wm plant has produce more than 6 fruit already what of the other fruit coming out of the 4th and 5th vine, should i cut vine or cut the fruit of the vine
Cut the vine! competition growers, leave only 1 vine, with one fruit, meaning all the energy is focused on the one fruit, more equals smaller sizes...
My watermelon are not going to market. They are going to my table. Since I am not concerned about shelf life, but just good sweet watermelon, do I need to prune as many off? Thanks.
the more you prune the bigger the remaining watermelons, so it comes down to personal choice...a few good sized ones(but also the risk if they fail you have nothing) or you can not prune and have lots of small watermelons
I don’t understand where u cut once u count 6 leaves.
Hey, can you prune the plant when the vines are already very long and have flowers and small watermelons?
Hi Kara pate, the short answer is yes... As I tried to explain in the video we prune to ensure top quality of final produce. So simply pick the melons you'll like to grow into nice healthy finished produce and snip off the rest... Think about it as less mouths to feed. But do make sure the melons have formed on the vine before you snip off the rest of the flowers/pods you wish to disregard. Best of luck with your melons.
Support comment. Thank you
If the plant keeps forming new stems,
Should i cut them off or keep them for vegetive growth without letting them set fruits ?
Marzouq there is no straight-forward answer here... Each additional growing tip takes-up nutrients. I would recommend keeping one support vine (an additional non-fruiting vine) per fruiting vine (vine with one forming melon). One will have to remove the female flowers from the support vine so that additional fruits don't form. Additionally, examine your manure (fertiliser) application. After fruit set, one should apply manures (fertiliser) higher in potassium and phosphorus, as nitrogen mainly encourages more vegetative development. Happy growing!!!
If shelf life is not an issue, (small garden) and water or nutrients aren't either, is it still beneficial to prune?
This is a very good question... We mainly prune because we want to control the outcome of the final fruit and also reduce the occurrence of pests/infections. As a general rule, the fewer melons per plant the less stress the plant would undergo. A less stressed plant, will be able to withstand pests/infections better than one under stress.
If this is your first time growing a vine fruit, I would suggest letting nature take charge. If you have sufficient space for multiple melon plants then experiment pruning one or two and see how the results turn out. Happy gardening...
Thank you.
Yes indeed...thank you Sir.
This line of thinking holds true with plants in general, I just never thought of applying it to melons. After watching my melons through this season, I can see where this makes a lot of sense. I will definitely try this next year.Thank you for expanding my thinking.
It's a but to late for me.. my watermelon is taken over the garden. Load of watermelon which are small. So tomarrow I'm pruning
Mine too, each plant has like 50 vines haha.
usually, the seed packet says to give them 24 inches of spacing between plants and 8-12 ft spacing between rows, asssuming they will keep growing until the end of the season... If you are pruning your plants that short, there's really no for 8 ft of row spacing is there? What is your spacing for this method? And when you do prune, does it produce side shoots? Thank you!
Very good and very handsome
Is that a watermelon plant?
Anyone to clarify for me folks? Per vine ( branch) u can have like how many water melons
I understood him to say 6 melons total, so if he ends up with two polinated fruits on every vine, he would then prune off all but 3 runners, or vines. I suppose it would be just as good to have one melon on 6 runners, but I'm no expert.
2 per vine, but about 6 total for the plant
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If we grow watermelon in the pot how many fruits are good?
Hmm.. this is a tricky question as we generally don't grow in pots because the watermelon has very deep roots and she's a heavy feeder... So it would depend on a few factors like what is the size of the pot, type of soil/compost mix, expected sunshine and temperature as well as the variety of the watermelon (large or small fruit) just to mention some key considerations. To be on the safe side I would suggest that you limit each potted watermelon plant to 2-3 fruits. Remember she needs a lot of sun to produce nice juicy fruits so I would also recommend to use a tendril to help expose the vines to maximum sunshine. Best of luck Deepak Gurung and do update us on how it turns out.
@@SIVOTECHNigeriaLimited ok i will give update after the fruit grows.
Climate and soil condition are also concerns. If you are growing melons in Nigeria, then I'm sure your climate and soil condition is better than pretty much anywhere in the USA.
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