Product Description

90 days. Cucumis melo. Plant produces heavy yields of 1 lb melons. The melons are yellow with brilliant fire-red, zigzag stripes golden color flesh melons. Very fragrant. The flesh is white and is very sweet and tastes like a cantaloupe. This heirloom variety does well in dry conditions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1168 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: Hirts: Seed; Fruit

Features

• 90 days
• Cucumis melo
• Plant produces heavy yields of 1 lb melons
• The flesh is white and is very sweet and tastes like a cantaloupe
• 10 Seeds

Customer Reviews

not necessarily EASY, but can be done
I was able to grow myself some decent tigger vines by
1) not even touching the seeds when the outside temperature drops below 60 at night (we're zone 9 bordering on 8, so we're ready in april)
2) very carefully using park seed starter domes (to further protect these delicate vines from cold, disease, etc)
3) vigorously soaping their transplantation area and then hitting them with fungicide weekly

They hve a tendency to pick up any disease in the air, soil, or water, and very sensitive to temperature. Anything below 55 will stunt and then kill them. They're even worse than cantaloupes with respect to their sensitivity.

Easy, no. But very satisfying.

all seedling died after a few weeks
I was so delighted at how readily these seeds sprang out of the soil. They grew quickly up to a few inches, then... died. My Victorian Perfumed Melon seedlings died in exactly the same way.

I did some google-research, and it the symptoms match up with a plant canker. The only way my plants could have gotten it was contaminated soil, beetles, or if the seeds came from a parent plant that was infected. Since the first two are impossible, it means Hirt's sold me infected seeds.

It was tremendously disappointing. However, other seeds i've gotten from Hirt's are working out fine (alpine strawberries and jaltomate), so the problem may just be limited to their melon seeds (which makes some sense, since the canker is a melon-specific disease).

I won't buy any additional melon seeds of any kind from Hirt's, but i'd consider other plant types.

I love this melon!
I absolutely love this melon! When everything was frying in the garden in June '08 due to a heat spike, this plant was growing 2" a day! It's originally from Armenia, whose summers average around 90 degrees a day- perfect in Texas! They look so unique I was sharing seeds with co-workers whose kids get the biggest kick out of the green/dark green striped melons as they turn to orange/light orange stripe! About the size of a softball, they do have a "cantelope type" taste, but better. And they're just right for an individual serving size.