Hi EFO for example I have attached a photo so that you can see what I mean.
This is an old picture and just for illustration.
Both pots are filled with soil, and make it as rich as you can. This year mine will have well rotted cow manure as well as whatever you want to add to the pot to feed the plant.
Melons are greedy feeders and as I use pots I don't expect more than 1 or 2 melons per plant.
Each plant will need as a minimum at least 10 lit of compost. If you can give them more great.
The first flowers that will appear are the males flowers and once the plant feels happy the female (melon bearing) flowers will appear. If nature doesn't help you then wait for at least 2 female flowers to appear and then use a male flower to hand pollinate both of them.
For some reason when confined to pots if only one female flower has appeared and is pollinated then the plant will put all it's energy into the one fruit. It took ages for me to pollinate a second fruit.
Once the melon has set, you will see if it takes within a week.
Once the fruit starts to grow I feed them every other day, as I said they are greedy feeders.
And they love heat, put them in the hottest place in your polytunnel/greenhouse.
I hope this makes sense?
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As for zeolite I have never heard of it, I shall have to look it up.
Dear EarthGirl,
I need your help,guidance,details and advice regarding melon-ing :)
We have a few buckets of 5 liters with sprouted melons and in each bucket are more or less 15 young plants.My questions for you are:
1-How many plants should I left in the 5 liters bucket?
2-The bigger bucket housing the 5 liters bucket need to me filled with soil or water or should be let it empty and watering only the 5 liter bucket?
Many thanks in advance for your guidance and time to reply.
As a side note,we started plating tomatoes and this year for the first time we used zeolite.After plating them we watering them with a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide already used before with very good results among other things :)