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VIDEO: I Almost Quit Growing This Crop But I Kept Trying and it Paid off HUGE
The Q word is a word we don’t ever use on this channel. We almost did give up but we didn’t and hopefully this serves as inspiration for never giving up! Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
I love Minnesota midget, but just so you know, the instructions I got on mine said to wait till they change colors before picking them. I've seen way too many rot on the vine while waiting to change color. I don't wait till they change color. Just my two cents. Love the channel. Be blessed.
Why aren’t you eating the squirrels?!?!
Congrats , Luke. Love your mind and all your research. You never quit and are always excited about gardening.
What are you going to do with all those cantalopes?
I'm there with you, Luke. Never give up. I have successfully grown cantelopes in grow boxes on a trellis and gotten fruit. Now, to fine-tune, I need to monitor the water in order to get sweeter fruit.
This is my third year trying to grow seedlings — they damped off my first two years. This year, I waited (a bit too long, truth be told) to plant and I actually got decent tomato plants. However, there is a difference between being persistent and refusing to face facts. I finally accepted that my sweet woodruff was getting too much sun where I had originally planted it. I moved it this year and it's already grown more in 2 months than it has in 2 years. Just like you had to change your techniques to get success. Congratulations on your melon success! 🙂
I love your content and this video is fantastic. The headline is pretty click baity though. Please just be descriptive with your title.
I'm on almost pure sand, near the beach. The "soil" is depleted and drains too fast. I gave up and started growing in big containers, and with the use of the Hugelkultur method of container growing, find I can make my own soil without buying it. I dig around under trees that have made piles of good compost, scrape up fibrous matter after a rain, and soak weeds and grass for watering with weed tea. The combination has given me some good planting medium without spending much. I get my containers from the Dollar Tree. I hang them from trees and bushes, using the big plant as a trellis. Vines do well in Florida, so the beans, cucumbers, and other vines have loved this. No produce as of yet, just flowers. I have also decided to do tree seeds, and have got mango and persimmon sprouting, with Moringa to go in shortly. My yard is not going to be big enough!
I'm definitely going to try growing cantaloupe next year AND on a trellis!
The speech at the start was more compelling than the president in Independence Day speech lol
Luke do you have a video how you put up trellis
Camera overheated. Im overheated. How keep plants growing with 90 degree temperatures??
I haven’t been able to grow peppers. Didn’t even try this year, but think I’m going to give it a GO, next year. Not sure if it’s my soil or what else it could be. We have success with about 20 other things, soI’m thankful for that (and a bit baffled).
I used to throw my halloween pumpkin seeds & guts by the old oak tree behind our house. A tornado uprooted that old tree. The following year, we had a huge pumpkin vine with 4 huge pumpkins hanging from the roots of that upturned tree. It was pretty cool. Nature had her way.
I've been struggling with Melons for a few years now but I keep trying. I had one grow last year but a bird got it before I did. Turns out it was nice and ripe. I bet it was delicious. Trying again this year but I don't know but there's enough season left in the PNW for my new to mature. I finally have some growing on the vine. Seems like they took a little to long to get going. It hasn't been super hot this year but as it's cooled a bit the plants have livened up. Hopefully I'll get one or two.
My Honeydew was a success "Snow Mass" variety by "Chef Jeff's" plants I got at my local garden store. It is darn near impossible to tell when they are rips as they do not separate from the stem like Cantaloupe and have been tan for a month now. I did notice a palm sized patch of yellowing on top, some netting cracks occurring around the stem and the flies have been gathering on it and must be detecting something so I picked it and it was sweet inside like a really good store bought one, not the sugarless winter honeydew they have at the store during the off season. No rot yet but in one video some guy in Texas' honeydew turned fully yellow and the green inside went to fully white and he said it tasted like sugar it was so sweet. I am not sure these Snow Mass will go that far and were afraid they would start to spoil in the field so took it in.
I also have these "Kiwano" vines absolutely taking over the garden and growing up tree's etc and now found dozens of large green Kiwanos along the older parts of the vines. I hope they turn orange soon and become sweet as I want to see if this grows well in the Midwest. So far they seem to grow like weeds and have no pest or disease pressure. The seeds were from a grocery store $5.99 overpriced Kiwano in the exotic fruit section I bought in March and dried a few dozen seeds.
I had given upon growing vegetables from seed. I live in Southern CA where it's very hot and dry. If that doesn't kill the seedlings, insect predators will devour them. Even watermelon radishes were consumed by some kind of insect, before they were 1" tall. 🙁 I recently came across your Better Seed Germination video where you pre-water the soil, plant the seeds, water again, then cover with cardboard. I just ordered my "winter crop" seeds, and this year, I'll try planting everything from seeds, to see how well that works. Thanks, Luke!
Thanks for this. This is the first year i'm trying to grow melon and its ok so far the plant looks healthy. I'm trying to grow it vertically like you did cause you said it worked for you.
Does it make sense to prune flowers that are blooming in, say, late August, so that the canteloupe doesn't waste energy growing fruits that won't have enough time to mature and focus on maturing the older fruits faster?
Yes, thank you for the encouragement! I try to learn from mistakes. I have definitely have had failures but i kept trying and kept growing (self and plants). I am trying new types of plants from seed all the time .
Do you have a video on how you built that trellis?
Now do cauliflower and ginger 🙂
This is great!
I dove head first into gardening because I went to a nursery and they wouldn't sell me blueberries because they said I wouldn't be able to grow them past the year I plant them. Keep me honest, guys, see you next year – because I went somewhere else and bought 2 blueberries and dozens of other plants (but focusing on blueberries).