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Sunday, March 16, 2025
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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That looks a little better. The seedling is an orange crisp, which is a seedless watermelon. seedless watermelon seeds are a buck a piece. It is costly to screw them up when a graft fails. It is worth the risk for me, because seedless are very popular and I don't want to have any problems with fusarium wilt. Which I likely will get if I don't graft.
I had to start the seedless watermelon almost a week before the rootstock because the newly sprouted seedless watermelon seedlings are so small and lack the vigor of a normal watermelon seed. (small seeded cultivars in general are harder to successfully graft, fortunately Carolina Cross and Jumbo Black Diamonds have larger seeds!)
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