Customer Reviews

Mexican Miniature Watermelon 15 Seeds -Melothria scabra

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I ordered these seeds, planted them indoors in early spring and transplated to the garden in May. At first I didn't think they were going to make it but suddenly they just took off! I put a chickenwire cage around the plant to keep the rabbits away. The vines grew and covered the fence and stayed contained to the fence (no wandering). The vines look like bindweed. When I tasted my "mini watermelons" they were crisp and tasted a lot like cucumber with a little bit of the taste of the green part of a watermelon. Because they were so crisp and they tasted like cucumber I decided to pickle some of them. What fun! The came out crispy on the outside and a little soft in the middle so it is like a little explosion in your mouth. I had many of my friends taste the "little pickles" and they all want more so I'll be planting these every year!

Easy to grow fast growing fun to see crawling all over. Great to grow with kids for the speed of growth. All the seeds sprouted after transplant to a big container they reached for the sky! I strung rope up to our porch roof now it grows up the rope. I measured a days growth to 8" there flowers and tiny melons already just 2 weeks after trans plant. I will have lots of fruit from these seeds can't wait to tast them.

My children and I ordered a selection of really fun seeds from you. (Hmong Red Cucumber
Black Sea Man Tomato, Rare Tigger Melon, Mexican Miniature Watermelon, Toga Striped Eggplant, Purple Cauliflower, Unwins Exhibiton 7 Pound Onion, Rare Red Bull Brussels Sprout)

My germination rate has been about 25% or less. All my other seeds from other companies are doing wonderful on my tables, but my Hirt's seeds are in a category of their own, small, stunted, wimpy, or not at all. I will not be ordering from you again, and I'm sorry I wasted my money.

I have had a 90% germination rate. Some were started indoors, others were direct seeded as soon as the temperature outside was well. Those having problems with germination, it is probably human error, especially if you are new to gardening or do not research growing your own veggies. Take some time on the internet and read about proper times to grow certain things in your, your plant, germination times and temps, appropriate time of year to plant certain crops, amounts of water and nutrients. Its like having a delicious pet.

If you do more than just plop a seed in the ground and hope to get a sea of food, you will have a good time and a good yield.

I put 2 seeds in 8 pots, except 1 pot only had 1 seed, and all of them have sprout about half an inch tall after 4 days of being in the soil.

Can't really dock the seeds too much because I'm probably living in the wrong area for this plant. I doubt Utah has the humidity this plant requires, I was able to get one sprout indoors and one outside, but both quickly died once they broke ground. I will be sending my remaining seeds to family in Texas to see how they do closer to native soil and conditions. I've never had problems with Hirts seeds before, and these plants need humidity which my area has none of.

I tasted these a couple of years ago in someone elses garden and needed to get myself some. This year I grew three plants and gave other plants away to some friends.

They take a long time to get going. They seemed to sprout right away (I did it in a seed tray inside, one seed per little pot like thing) however they took until mid summer to get big. Once they did I got a good number of tiny little cucumbers that were absolutely delicious.

I grew them in big pots with little stakes and things because they are vines. They lasted all summer and I ate my last cucumbers the end of September.

I plan to buy them again, and not share this time!
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As an FYI it's the next year. I have bought these and planted them 2 years in a row now and they've worked both times. I plan to buy them again.

My wife got a plant from a nursery a long time ago and they weren't called miniature watermelon, they're Mexican Miniature Cucumbers or Gherkins ...they only look like watermelon.

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Got them quick. Have not planted them yet. Sender is a smoker. Seeds smell of smoke along with the envelope holding the seeds. I cant get rid of the smell. It is stong. I am not going to start planting until March. I have to keep them in a ziplock. Hope the seeds being sealed in with the somke does not impact the taste.

One big nothing. I started some seeds in doors, some out in the soil. A couple that germinated only lasted a week when the seeds from Lowes did fine.