mart
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:33 pm Post subject: I picked my mystery white cantalope,, |
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Hubby was in the hospital for a couple of weeks and during that time my white cantalope finally ripened. It weighed 4 lbs 12 oz. When ripe it was a pale peachy color, fairly smooth skin with very little netting. Much firmer than cantalope and tasted like a cross between a honeydew and a cantalope. These have twice as much meat than a cantalope, very thin skin, small seed cavity and are as round as a basketball. I have found nothing on the web exactly like it. Now to see if they will reproduce the same melon next year. I am curious about this one.
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Netty
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds YUMMY!
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mart
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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I would have liked to let it ripen a bit more before cutting it but I had to get back to the hospital and didn`t have time. Once cut it does keep well in the fridge. I am still eating it. It doesn`t get strong tasting as cantalopes do on occassion. Can`t wait for next year.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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So sorry to hear that your husband is in hospital Mart. I hope he'll soon be on the road to recovery and back at home with you again.
Do let us know if the seeds you save from your mystery cantalope/melon produce the same fruits for you next year won't you? Maybe you've discovered a new species. 
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mart
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Eileen, he is home and doing well. I will sure let everyone know about this one. Not sure about new species but perhaps a throwback to an old one. The vine only had two melons on it. Both got huge as melons go. Its just strange that I cannot find one like it anywhere on the web. I have found similar melons but none are as white as this one, it looked like a softball. It didn`t start getting that peachy color till right before it got ripe.
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stratsmom
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe some cross-pollination happened  Sounds like something my husband would love!! I can't tell you how much money he's spent trying to find the "perfect" honeydew 
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mart
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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That would be a likely scenario but all of the seeds I planted were from a single cantalope I grew last year. There are no other gardens close to me so I don`t think thats what happened. I planted honeydew in the small garden but they died before blooming when a wash out occurred after a rainstorm. And other than taste, they did not show any resemblance to a honeydew. So I have no idea how a cross pollination would have occurred. This one has me stumped.
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glendann
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like it crossed somewhere.I have not seen anything anywhere like you have discribed.
I'm glad your hubby is better mart.
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Danjensen
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Is it a pale green to white colour?
I have seen these in stores before its a cross between honey dew and cantaloupe.
very smoothe shiny skin but very thin, green tinted flesh.
I think its an earlidew melon
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mart
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Could be a cross but with what and how ?? Thats the question. Seems there would have to be similarities to something grown currently, but I have found none. Thanks Glendann, he is much better.
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mart
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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No, it is pure white skin when young and a pale peachy color when ripe, fine netting right before getting ripe, much lighter and smoother than cantalope, lighter color flesh than cantalope, no green at all, and as round as a basketball.
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I hope you'll continue to keep us posted about your "mystery melon." I've had white melons come up when I planted cantaloupe. I think Honey dew seeds got mixed up with the cantaloupes when I ordered them from an all OP seed catalog. Unlike your situation, this was an obvious mistake. I remember thinking how a few of the seeds in the packet looked different somehow when I planted them.
I just love those little garden miracles. I had the most wonderful butternut squash come up as volunteers last year. They were huge and delicious.
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mart
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I sure will keep everyone posted. They are blooming now but if we don`t get rain soon,, they may not make at all. Only thing about these was that the seed I used was from what I had saved. Had no honeydew. Mine died before they bloomed. And they did not look anything like a cantaloupe, honeydew cross. It may have been a fluke and never happen again. Who knows ? Just have to wait till they set fruit and see. Then I will take pics!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| glendann wrote: | It sounds like it crossed somewhere.I have not seen anything anywhere like you have discribed.
I'm glad your hubby is better mart. |
Im guessing this too, a cross is possible, and all the best to your hubby for his recovery.
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mart
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Possible perhaps ! But with what to produce a white melon ? No other gardens for miles, seeds came from ordinary cantaloupes. I have looked at all types of crosses on the net and found nothing that is white skinned. Pale,, yes, but not baseball white. I am just waiting to see if we have any more.
Hubby is fine and doing well. Thanks !
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