Cantaloupe pollination?
I am growing cantaloupe from seed from a store bought cantaloupe. The plant is growing vigorously and it's very strong and there are many many many flowers but no fruit setting. Do cantaloupe need to be pollinated by a female plant? We eat cantaloupe ALL the time and I would love to get one in before the season ends.
Hi Franco,
You need bees for pollination or you will have to hand pollinate. Here's some info.
https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8.html
https://apis.ifas.ufl.edu/papers/VINEPOL.HTM
https://pollinator.com/squash.htm
Since you grew your melon from seed from a fruit from the store, it could be a hybrid and be sterile.
Newt
You need bees for pollination or you will have to hand pollinate. Here's some info.
https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8.html
https://apis.ifas.ufl.edu/papers/VINEPOL.HTM
https://pollinator.com/squash.htm
Since you grew your melon from seed from a fruit from the store, it could be a hybrid and be sterile.
Newt
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Well, they may not be. Just do a little research by googling the melons name and Hermaphrodites.
And if they are, it doesn't mean that they are sterile, what it would most likely mean is that you don't have a pollinator visiting your plants. Therefore, you would want to figure out how to attract pollinators like:
Planting other flowers to attract beas, syrphid flies and so on.
One thing that I think that every gardener should do is hang several syrphid fly homes around their garden.
And if they are, it doesn't mean that they are sterile, what it would most likely mean is that you don't have a pollinator visiting your plants. Therefore, you would want to figure out how to attract pollinators like:
Planting other flowers to attract beas, syrphid flies and so on.
One thing that I think that every gardener should do is hang several syrphid fly homes around their garden.
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AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUESS WHAT!!!!!! THERE ARE FRUIT ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was watering everything on my roof and I go to the cantaloupe and I'm watering as usual and then I see this huge orb and I'm like HOLY S**T!!!!!!!! There are like 4 more growing on it too I'm sooooo happpyyyy!!
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