Harvesting our home grown cantaloupe here in Arizona – November, 2011
Looks like it was just a little bit early to pick this great looking cantaloupe, but the last one I grew was eaten by bugs. It still tasted really good, but wasn’t as sweet as it should have been. I’ll be leaving the other cantaloupes on the vine for a couple more weeks.
10 Responses to Harvesting our home grown cantaloupe here in Arizona – November, 2011
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looks yummy
DesertStateAgent
November 24, 2011 at 9:54 pm
@Thagirion9 yeah, I’m gonna do my best to try and let them mature, but man they look so good, lol, it’s gonna be hard not to pick them haha I guess I should check the date I planted them and add up the days and get a pretty good date on when to harvest. Our weather is so crazy right now, almost hit 32 last night…from extreme heat to extreme cold like a week hahaha crazy!
ArizonaAdventures
November 24, 2011 at 10:02 pm
It’s hard to tell when the rind doesn’t change. Hopefully the bugs won’t get the others and you can let them mature more.
Thagirion9
November 24, 2011 at 10:08 pm
@ArizonaAdventures Yep he’s there on the top of the plant everyday.
herbprophet
November 24, 2011 at 10:37 pm
@MajorRager76 oh hey thanks. I thought thats how it should be done, but I couldn’t resist because I had a single melon growing under another tree and I found it with holes & bugs. Maybe the birds opened up the last one? I’m going to wait on the rest until I can just pop ’em off like you said. Thanks!
ArizonaAdventures
November 24, 2011 at 11:33 pm
@herbprophet thats awesome,I bet it’s chowing down on the whitelfies. It’s funny how they love to stay in the same place. I have a fairly large green mantis that lives in our pony tail palm plant, he’s in the same place everyday, lol
ArizonaAdventures
November 24, 2011 at 11:36 pm
@Thesmalltowngardener hey thanks!
ArizonaAdventures
November 25, 2011 at 12:33 am
looks good man!
Thesmalltowngardener
November 25, 2011 at 12:56 am
We got a huge praying mantis that chills at the top of 1 of our egg plant plants.
herbprophet
November 25, 2011 at 1:52 am
when harvesting when they are ripe they will just pop off the vine if you need to cut the vine they wont be ripe but thats more then a decent plant you got there great video
MajorRager76
November 25, 2011 at 2:46 am