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