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Crimson Sweet Watermelon
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Crimson Sweet Watermelon is an attractive melon with a light and dark green striped rind, deep red firm fine-textured flesh, and small dark brown seeds.
Size: 1/4 oz or 160 seeds per packet
SKU: 0177
Categories: Vegetable Seeds, Watermelon
Crimson Sweet Watermelon is an open-pollinated, heirloom seed variety that matures in 85 days. An attractive watermelon with a light and dark green striped rind, deep red firm fine-textured flesh, and small dark brown seeds. Crimson Sweet Watermelon fills the need for a round striped melon with good cutting qualities. Desired features consist of fewer and smaller seeds, sweeter flavor and a thin rind. Well adapted for long-distance shipping. Crimson Sweet Watermelon is tolerant to Wilt and Anthracnose. 625 seed per ounce or 10,000 seed per pound.
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How to grow Crimson Sweet Watermelon?
Crimson Sweet Watermelon plants have sparse leaves and need a lot of sunshine and heat to mature their fruit. The Crimson Sweet Watermelon plant roots are delicate and require high nutrition and lots of water. For all that effort, you’ll be rewarded by the ripest, sweetest watermelons you’ve ever tasted. Read through the handy and useful guide ‘How to Grow watermelon’ and grow refreshing flavorful watermleons this summer!
Timing
It is essential to start Crimson Sweet Watermelon seeds indoors or in a greenhouse mid to late April. Transplant at the end of May or first week of June, when the plants are 5 weeks old. Optimal soil temperature for germination: 20-25°C (68-77°F). Seeds should sprout in 5-10 days.
Starting
Sow Crimson Sweet Watermelon seeds ½” deep. Set transplants 24-36″ apart in rows 5-6′ apart.
Growing
Ideal pH: 6.0-6.8. Choose a warm, well-drained soil for Crimson Sweet Watermelon. Add dolomite lime and compost or well-rotted manure to the bed and ½-1 cup of complete organic fertilizer beneath each transplant. Watermelons need really warm growing conditions. Use black plastic mulch, cloches, or floating row covers. Success may improve in raised beds. Watermelons plants require 8-10 weeks of good, hot growing weather from the middle of June to the end of August. During that time, a melon vine must grow 5-9 leaves before starting to flower, then set 4 or more male flowers before making its first female flower, and then ripen its fruit before cool, damp weather sets in. Watermelons do not ripen off the vine. During the entire growing season, make sure to provide ample water.
Harvest
Crimson Sweet Watermelon fruit will ripen in late August to early September. Watermelon is ripe when the tendril nearest to the fruit withers and dries up.
Seed Info
In ideal conditions at least 60% of Crimson Sweet Watermelon seeds will germinate. Usual seed life: 3 years. Per 100′ row: 60 seeds, per acre: 5.2M seeds.
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