
Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Cantaloupes
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Hi there!
I followed Ben's advice to dig in raw kitchen compost and now I have 30+ Cantaloupe seedlings growing! Its awesome. I've transplanted a handful of healthy looking plants and some of the others look like they have rust on the first leaves... (cotydons?). What is this and what should I do about it?
Thanks!!
Kim
It’s hard to know what it could be without seeing a picture, but if seedlings look diseased or otherwise weak, you’re better off just getting rid of them (in the trash, not compost)āespecially given that you had so many appear!
Planted in June -
Both vines with many flowers and leaves but no fruit ā Iām sad!
What to do? Thank youā
Maybe the flower-blossoms are not getting "fertilized due to lack of insects"; there are ways to Pollinate flowers;; I've read;
No easy answer here, Dorothy, so we went to the cooperative extension for their thinking: High temperatures or high fertility can cause the cantaloupe to produce only male blooms which results in poor fruit set. Nematodes can also cause small plants, profusion of blooms and no fruit.
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