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How to grow seedless watermelon

General Climatic Requirements. Seedless watermelons are a warm-season crop, preferring relatively high temperatures for optimum growth. Daytime temperatures of 80 to 95 degrees F. and night temperatures of 60 to 70 degrees F. are best. When temperatures are lower, plant growth is slowed considerably. With favorable weather, seeded fields can produce ripe fruit in 85 to 100 days. Planting. Poor seed germination is the main problem with growing seedless watermelons. When direct seeding, the soil temperature should be minimum of 70 degrees [...]

Why seedless watermelon have seeds?

There is a interesting thing when you growing seedless ( triploid) watermelon. You may find some special black big seeds in the seedless watermelon fruit. Why ? Is it fake seeds ? It is not exactly. Let me tell you the reason. Actually, it is not a real seed, it is actually fake seeds. Open the seeds, you will find there are no embryos. See the bellow picture. seedless watermleon fruit full of fake seeds Why this happen ? how to avoid ? 1. Low [...]

Tomato Disease Abbreviations

FUNGI V=Verticillium Wilt ( Verticillium dahliae race 1) F= Fusarium Wilt( Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) FCR= Fusarium Crowun Rot ( F. o. f. sp. radicis-lycopersici ) ASC= Alternaria Stem Canker( Alternaria alternata f. sp. lycopersici ) EB= Early Blight ( Alternaria solani) GLS= Gray Leaf Spot ( Stemphylium spp) ToLM= Tomato leaf Mould ( Cladosporium Fulvia Cooke)   BACTERIAL BSK= Bacterial Speck ( Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato) BST= Bacterial Spot ( Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria) BCK= Bacterial Canker( Clavibacter michiganensis) BWT= Bacterial Wilt ( Ralstonia solanacearum)   NEMATODE N= Root Knot Nematode ( Meloidogyne [...]