melons of the family of cantalopes

[bonecarver_OG]

hi all i just started a new hobby - im preparing to start growing melons... i love specifically the family of cantalopes.

im slowly collecting seeds from all tasty and nice cantalope melons i buy got chantais (orange meat) and galia (green meat), also i got toadskin, and black water melon (round), and striped water melon (oval).

this thread will grow very slowly since i wont plant untill next year - but the collecting part is as fun atleast for me - so i will share what i find here!

ill post some pics of the melons when i get time its fun to have a photo of the originals as reference

also besides melons i have started to collect other various fruit and flower seeds.

the papaya seeds i collected from an ecuatorial variety a few years back grow nicelly now, but i think it might need to be continued to flower indoors since i planted them very late.

anyone else like melons ?

peace all!

 

[yortbogey]

yep.....wifez a BIG melon fan.....but i do the gardening...got some
"SWAN LAKE"...melons just start'in to flower....hopefullly they'ell fruit soon.......cantloupez in the front also..........i get some pic'z....for U........

 

[jaykush]

we grow some heirloom cantaloupes, cant remember the name off the top of my head. but yumm they are good.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

jay kush - please post a pic! i bet the seeds of those are interesting most cantalopes are heirloom i dont know of many hybrids

yortbogey - sounds interesting! i wanna see them when ripe whats the colour etc? maybe we can identify it?


the cool part of the melons are their modest and sometimes even ugly outside contrasted by the sweet fragrant meat love em!

my favorite is to take a few different kinds, chop em a bit and blend in a mixer with some milk and ice.. best vitamin shake EVER

specially now when im undergoing dental surgery melons are good for the imune defense system too

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Cantaloupe Health Benefits, Cantaloupe Nutritional Facts

Cantaloupe with its refreshingly rich flavor and odour and minimum number of calories, is the most popular form of melon. Cantaloupe is also referred to as a netted melon because it has a ribless rind with a distinctive netted skin. It has evolved as an excellent source of vitamin C.

One cup of cantaloupe contains 112.5% of the daily value for this well-known antioxidant. Cantaloupe has antioxidants that help us fight heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, aging, etc. Cantaloupe is also a very good source of potassium, vitamin B6, dietary fiber and niacin (vitamin B3).

The combination of all these B complex vitamins along with the fiber found in cantaloupe make it an exceptionally good fruit for supporting energy production through good carbohydrate metabolism and blood sugar stability. Cantaloupe is fat and cholesterol free, and is a good source of Folate.

Folate is necessary for the production and maintenance of new cells, and is especially important during periods of rapid cell division and growth such as infancy and pregnancy. Cantaloupe is also high in beta-carotene, which our bodies convert into Vitamin A and helps in protecting our eyes from cataracts and mascular degeneration.


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what ya say about that!

peace all

 

[bonecarver_OG]

an other cuote

http://www.thefruitpages.com/chartcantaloupe.shtml

per 100gram

Calcium, Ca mg 11
Iron, Fe mg 0.21
Magnesium, Mg mg 11
Phosphorus, P mg 17
Potassium, K mg 309
Sodium, Na mg 9
Zinc, Zn mg 0.16
Copper, Cu mg 0.042
Manganese, Mn mg 0.047
Selenium, Se mcg 0.4
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 42.2
Thiamin mg 0.036
Riboflavin mg 0.021
Niacin mg 0.574
Pantothenic acid mg 0.128
Vitamin B-6 mg 0.115
Folate, total mcg 17
Folic acid mcg 0
Folate, food mcg 17
Folate, DFE mcg_DFE 17
Vitamin B-12 mcg 0.00
Vitamin A, IU IU 3224
Vitamin A, RE mcg_RE 322
Vitamin E mg_ATE 0.150

 

[barnyard]

here's a good early cantaloupe ...

here's a good early cantaloupe ...

Minnesota Midget is softball size with sugary flesh that's edible right to the rind.

No fruits so far but lots of blooms. I'm trying to trellis them.

Nothings more tasty than a perfectly ripe cantaloupe! Good and good for you.:smile:

 

[nepalnt21]

the only melon i have ever enjoyed was a yellow watermelon. i really dont find any other melon very appetizing. but that yellow watermelon... that was some good eats!

 

[bonecarver_OG]

nepalnt21 - are they that good? the yellow watermelons? gotto try them when i can.

barnyard - its gonna be fun to see how those develop! minnesota midget - that name is great

 

[nepalnt21]

nepalnt21 - are they that good? the yellow watermelons? gotto try them when i can.

well i love them, but ive heard others say regular watermelons are better. the chef at this restaurant i used to work at used them for some seafood dish, forget what it was. other people were talking about how good his watermelons were, so i thought they couldnt be much worse than red ones, and it was cool to see, so i tried it and liked it.

whereas i think regular watermelons are a little dry and not very sweet, these were juicy, sweet, and just plain delicious.

i love most other fruits and veggies

 

[AndreNicky]

I LOVE MELONS!!!!!!! Sugar queens, Galas, muskmelons, Butterscotch are some of my favorites but i don't discriminate. I'm working on converting my front yard into a small melon farm, probably gonna grow Sugar queens(i love these bitches), galas and some sort of watermelon variety

 

[Meaty]

musk melons are probably my favorite fruit. I just cant seem to quit eatin them!

I have one question though. How do you tell if they're ripe? I have heard of knocking on them for the hollow sound, or giving them a shake to see how much juice they have but still had some no goes.

 

[AndreNicky]

I try to get ones that are kinda yellow, slightly soft on the top and sometimes they'll have that sweet muskmelon smell. These signs usually work for me

 

[Mr. Greengenes]

Jenny Lind! https://www.superseeds.com/images/veg/225jenny_lind_bw.jpg

Lots of cool heirloom melons at Pinetree Garden Seeds https://www.superseeds.com/

 

[sackoweed]

BoneC
I love any kind of melons.. Melons with nipples are the best flavor for me.. lol.. Anyhow i made some cantaloupe italian ice a few weeks back and it was friggn delish.. We are a family that always has some kind of melon here at home. So this thread should be fun and interesting.. I hope its cool to post these pics...

Three melons i really like are these..

and of course these too..

peace.

sack

 

[barnyard]

mmmmm, healthy melons there sac

time to think about Autumn planting and seed saving

* Cantaloupes do not cross with cucumbers, watermelons, pumpkins or squashes.

also...


*Cucumbers do easily cross with other cucumbers. They do not cross with squash, pumpkin, watermelon or cantaloupe.
* Summer squash easily crosses with other summer squash and with pumpkin. Summer squash doesn't cross with winter squash.
* Tomatoes do not cross with potatoes.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

i got a new variety in the fridge waiting for getting cut up

it would be fun to see if it is possible to cross some varieties...

peace all

 

[uon]

Hey guys. This is my first post on ICmag. Have a single Hale's Jumbo cantaloupe plant growing right next to my outdoor Blue Dream, which is 2.5 weeks into flower. If I knew how big the cantaloupe plant would get I wouldn't have planted my cannabis so close!

Anyway here is a picture of the two largest melons I just harvested a few days ago, they were delicious!

 

[hardhat22]

it would be fun to see if it is possible to cross some varieties...

Now that would be interesting to see.If you want some dependable old genes,I can vouch for these guys at Baker Creek.Very dependable.
http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Melons-American

I worked a farm for years and we grew acres of Hales Best and Rocky ford.Occasionally we would find Honeydews amongst them.Placed into a nearby spring,they would be ice cold by the time we took a break at 8am.Cantaloup makes for some of the easiest and most enjoyable work on a farm.
Great thread Bonecarver.
Peace

Interesting paintings of melons as they were a few years back,Lol.
The Curcurbit Images (1515-1518)of the villa Farnesina,Rome
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mcj025/
"These types of watermelons, bottle gourds, cucumbers, melons, gourds and pumpkins appear to have been maintained over the course of the past 500 years. This is remarkable, considering the tendency of cucurbit cultivars belonging to the same species to cross with one another, thereby mutually diluting their distinguishing characteristics."

 

[bonecarver_OG]

besides seeds of melons i got hold of seeds of a local traditionally grown pumpkin variety called "totanera". its green and got a warty skin but is very heat and draugth resistant and handles water with high ec well. going to be fun to try that too!

a friend of mine says he has put aside seeds of a "white" melon for me! thayt is going to be fun to see!

peace!

 

[barnyard]

lovely Hale's there uon, thanks for posting...

lovely Hale's there uon, thanks for posting...

Hey guys. This is my first post on ICmag. Have a single Hale's Jumbo cantaloupe plant growing right next to my outdoor Blue Dream, which is 2.5 weeks into flower. If I knew how big the cantaloupe plant would get I wouldn't have planted my cannabis so close!

Anyway here is a picture of the two largest melons I just harvested a few days ago, they were delicious!