So... I had a couple questions for growing melons. I hope you can bear with me. And thanks. Also this community is so nice. Thank you for that too.
So... I've been growing melons for 2 years now. I didn't use to be able to do melons as they are tricky. The summer year before last I finally got some of them to work. Then last year I did a ton of them and really got them to work. But that's not a lot of experience with them still. And I don't know everything about them.
So what seemed to be working is that if I was extremely careful about multiple waterings per day I could get melons to work. But it seems to require more than 1 watering per day. And it also seemed like if I missed a day or 2 that a growing melon might not restart growing again. (Is this what others are seeing?)
Based on this I wanted to ask... if your watering cycle gets interrupted for a day, is there a way to get a partly grown melon to resume growing again? And what's the longest your watering cycle can be interrupted without a partly grown melon being stunted to not grow anymore after that?
I've grown a lot of stuff for years, but melons seem like they are the most fragile about watering... (?) Is this what others have found?
I'm in a zone 5 area that has almost no ground water. We have to have good fertizilization and be very careful about water to get stuff to work here. (If that helps any.)
Sometimes my elderly relatives in the next town need help 2 days a week now. This is going to pull me away from doing gardening at my own place. So I want to figure out what the limits are on melon watering and how much their watering cycle can be interrupted?
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A side issue is where I'm at, it should be very hot right now. We should have like 90 degrees heat for the highs by now and reasonable lows. But this year the weather is very crazy. We're still having night lows in the low 40s... for multiple days in a row. I've never seen the night lows to go this low this late in the year. And it seems like a lot of people are having crazy lows.
So... I've been growing melons for 2 years now. I didn't use to be able to do melons as they are tricky. The summer year before last I finally got some of them to work. Then last year I did a ton of them and really got them to work. But that's not a lot of experience with them still. And I don't know everything about them.
So what seemed to be working is that if I was extremely careful about multiple waterings per day I could get melons to work. But it seems to require more than 1 watering per day. And it also seemed like if I missed a day or 2 that a growing melon might not restart growing again. (Is this what others are seeing?)
Based on this I wanted to ask... if your watering cycle gets interrupted for a day, is there a way to get a partly grown melon to resume growing again? And what's the longest your watering cycle can be interrupted without a partly grown melon being stunted to not grow anymore after that?
I've grown a lot of stuff for years, but melons seem like they are the most fragile about watering... (?) Is this what others have found?
I'm in a zone 5 area that has almost no ground water. We have to have good fertizilization and be very careful about water to get stuff to work here. (If that helps any.)
Sometimes my elderly relatives in the next town need help 2 days a week now. This is going to pull me away from doing gardening at my own place. So I want to figure out what the limits are on melon watering and how much their watering cycle can be interrupted?
...
A side issue is where I'm at, it should be very hot right now. We should have like 90 degrees heat for the highs by now and reasonable lows. But this year the weather is very crazy. We're still having night lows in the low 40s... for multiple days in a row. I've never seen the night lows to go this low this late in the year. And it seems like a lot of people are having crazy lows.