This the one fruit that appears to have been pollinated. It’s still there and hasn’t dropped off! The plant is vining all over the place and there are a few more yellow flowers.
Not sure however just how productive this will be.
Category Archives: Watermelon
Inside the hobbit hot house
You have to wipe down your glasses after stepping in as the temperature rises in there.
Is burgeoning in there with blooming aubergines. There are cascades of lilac flowers. If you look closely, having delicately stepped inside; there are a few white chilli and pepper flowers. Still don’t fancy even touching the habanero or naga plants at risk of dropping the flowers.
The crimson sweet water melon is vining all over that place and today i spotted two fruit in need of pollinating. Sweet potatoes are also sprawling everywhere.
Come on you melon
Not sure if the fruit has even been pollinated. It is still very tiny, pea sized and I can’t tell if it has got any bigger. The vine itself now has three arms and I’m training it up rather than out. Really want to this to work!
Crimson sweet watermelon
The developmentally delayed watermelon is starting to flourish. There are more leaves and even two very tiny flowers. Looks okay, but let’s see how this turns out.
hot stuff in the hot house
The warm spell has somewhat spurred on the contents of the poly tunnel. With the one vent open, and a tray of water in the middle to help maintain the temperature; there are lots of little flower buds dotted around. A welcome sight, since many of the plants have suffered episodes of sun scorch. The poly tunnel gets extremely hot! The highest I have observed is 40 odd degrees when we have had very warm spells.
The Dorset nagas are the competition plants; the plants that we are willing on daily. The plants are still quite small, and I am wondering how to get some height onto them. They are sitting on clay soil, that may well be part of the problem. But they have heat, light, and regular feeding. It is a long way to October, granted, but these really need some. There is marked difference between the orange and chocolate habaneros. The orange habs, there are three of them, I think, there is luscious green foliage. The plants stand quite proudly, and for the moment, are flourishing. Stark contrast, to the waxy, bright green foliage of the chocolate habanero.
A vista of the polytunnel as a whole. There are sweet potatoes there and out of shot, there are some newly transplanted sweet peppers. These are two bell peppers, and a cone shaped one. The california wonder pepper has sadly died a death.
Crimson sweet watermelon
This is a baby watermelon. It’s tiny. And it’s an experiment.
So it may not make it through the growing season.
A sweet crimson one at that.
Very little, very precious.
One hell of an experiment.
