Watermelon seedlings

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
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    oldrocker wrote: »

    Carefully remove a male flower from the plant. Male flowers have a stamen, which is a pollen covered stalk in the center of the flower.
    Strip away the petals of the male flower so that only the stamen is left.
    Find a female flower—they will sit atop an immature, tiny melon. **Insert the stamen from the male flower into an open female flower and gently tap the stamen on the stigma (a small, sticky knob in the female flower).
    Try to coat the stigma with as much pollen as possible. As long as there is pollen left on the stamen, you can use the same male flower several times on other female flowers.

    I ain't doing that, I'd never live that one down.. :D

    Dude it's ok...just don't let the wife find out

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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,650
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    oldrocker wrote: »
    Wife told me about that, suggested we try a few that way next year.
    I think the total count is around 16.



    Carefully remove a male flower from the plant. Male flowers have a stamen, which is a pollen covered stalk in the center of the flower.
    Strip away the petals of the male flower so that only the stamen is left.
    Find a female flower—they will sit atop an immature, tiny melon. **Insert the stamen from the male flower into an open female flower and gently tap the stamen on the stigma (a small, sticky knob in the female flower).
    Try to coat the stigma with as much pollen as possible. As long as there is pollen left on the stamen, you can use the same male flower several times on other female flowers.

    I ain't doing that, I'd never live that one down.. :D

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  • pitdogg2
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    Rainy days do not help either. Beekeepers are seeing a decline in Honey production this year because it's been so wet. Rainy days wash the nectar away so the bees do not pollinate the flowers as well.
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  • oldrocker
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Rainy days do not help either. Beekeepers are seeing a decline in Honey production this year because it's been so wet. Rainy days wash the nectar away so the bees do not pollinate the flowers as well.

    Been wanting to try beekeeping for a few years.

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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
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    Wife got a chuckle out of that one Ken.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
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    Gettin closer.

    Hopefully when we get back in a few weeks this bad boy will be ready B)

    I'm up to 16 and few new little one's starting to form.
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  • mrbiron
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    Now I definitely want to grow watermelon!

    I transplanted a…plant…from my mulch pile. Thought it was squash or zucchini…

    Dunno what I got, but it ain’t watermelon. :D

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    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,466
    edited August 2021
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    I disabled signatures.
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  • oldrocker
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    mrbiron wrote: »
    Now I definitely want to grow watermelon!

    I transplanted a…plant…from my mulch pile. Thought it was squash or zucchini…

    Dunno what I got, but it ain’t watermelon. :D

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    Looks like a summer squash.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
    edited August 2021
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    Leaves look like these?????

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    https://youtu.be/8cfeTZNcA3g?t=19
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  • oldrocker
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    Yep, It could be a pumpkin also. I'd say let it grow and see.

    I do know it's not a speaker....
    Although I bet somewhere out there somebody has put a speaker
    in some sort of a grown plant :D




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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
    edited August 2021
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    Halloween is around the corner, maybe a homegrown jack-o-lantern project is in your future

    Or you can try pumpkin chunkin...Please do not use the same method as video above

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  • oldrocker
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    Ouch!!!
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
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    oldrocker wrote: »
    Ouch!!!

    Ouch is right!!
    at :18s of the video the other gal says "right in the kisser"...success

    I can't believe that there was not more catastrophic damage, tough gal
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  • oldrocker
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    No doubt. I was sure she broke her nose or lost some teeth.

    FWIW, neighbor down the road has a son who built something like that.

    They have launched all kinds of stuff out in the field.
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  • oldrocker
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    A bit early picking but TASTY all the same.

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  • oldrocker
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    Cantaloupes are a bit small.

    The biggest one got taken by a trash panda that the dog apparently did not scare off.

    I ask her how the hell she let this happen in her domain?

    Her response, yep a yawn.

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