stupid long shot, but i want to grow some of these mini commercial triploid watermelon cultivars.
problem is im a small scale hobby schmuck, and this website is geared towards mighty commercial growers, captains of agriculture with capital i cannot begin to approach.
http://www.siegers.com/online-catalog/watermelon/filter/cat/212.html
site requires 250 dollar minimum orders and minimum seed orders of 500-1000.
if just 3 or 4 people who share my interest in growing these diminutive melons we can make this happen.
triploid melon require diploid pollinators, keep this in mind... in the laughably off chance that this happens, id like to suggest the minipol cultivar... its a harvestable diploid type, so it provides pollen, whilst also producing acceptable(although seeded) tasting, and small enough melons.
why do i want to grow tiny little gaylord melons? because yo can grow them on a trellis or wire with a modicum of space. the minipol cultivar is the only harvestable cultivar that produces melons small enough to easily go vertical.
these will be TREATED SEEDS. treated with CHEMICALS!!!. SHIT!!!@!
i do not know what the treatment is exactly, but these are commercial seeds, the treatment is probably a fungicide owing to melons general affinity towards being raped by various fungi. so its probably thiram + a colorant + a lubricant for floability inside seeding machines.
its possible the treatment is just a priming chemical, steam or potassium nitrate, but no its probably a fungicide.
problem is im a small scale hobby schmuck, and this website is geared towards mighty commercial growers, captains of agriculture with capital i cannot begin to approach.
http://www.siegers.com/online-catalog/watermelon/filter/cat/212.html
site requires 250 dollar minimum orders and minimum seed orders of 500-1000.
if just 3 or 4 people who share my interest in growing these diminutive melons we can make this happen.
triploid melon require diploid pollinators, keep this in mind... in the laughably off chance that this happens, id like to suggest the minipol cultivar... its a harvestable diploid type, so it provides pollen, whilst also producing acceptable(although seeded) tasting, and small enough melons.
why do i want to grow tiny little gaylord melons? because yo can grow them on a trellis or wire with a modicum of space. the minipol cultivar is the only harvestable cultivar that produces melons small enough to easily go vertical.
these will be TREATED SEEDS. treated with CHEMICALS!!!. SHIT!!!@!
i do not know what the treatment is exactly, but these are commercial seeds, the treatment is probably a fungicide owing to melons general affinity towards being raped by various fungi. so its probably thiram + a colorant + a lubricant for floability inside seeding machines.
its possible the treatment is just a priming chemical, steam or potassium nitrate, but no its probably a fungicide.