Baby Watermelon Plant
Plants grow 8 to 10 inches tall on compact vines that arent too long making it suitable.
Baby watermelon plant. The melon is round with striped skin when immature changing to a dark greenish black when ripe. The plants have both yellow male and female flowers. Sweet fine textured medium red flesh. We grow our sugar baby watermelon plants organically and guarantee them to arrive alive and thriving.
Lastly these melons like all melons are pollinated by bees. Their basic characteristics and habit of growth include. Water during hot dry periods. The inner flesh is sweet and red with dark brown seeds.
Aphids and nematodes as well as diseases such as anthracnose gummy stem blight and powdery mildew may all afflict the sugar baby watermelon crop. Icebox watermelons including sugar baby earn their name from their small fruit which weighs in at. The round 12 lb dark green skinned melons grow 8 in. Sugar baby melons typically do not exceed 10 pounds with flavor red flesh and a light green rind with dark stripes.
As the name suggests sugar baby serves a sweet bite. This early season melon also packs a high level of healthy antioxidants. Sugar baby is an early season watermelon coming to maturity approximately 75 days after germination. Why you should grow sugar baby watermelon 1.
For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season plants may be started indoors in peat pots. Sugar baby watermelon plants produce super sweet red fleshed 8 inch fruits on compact vines. It is one of our most popular varieties.