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Re: watermelons

At 04:01 AM 8/24/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Yippee,
>
>I have just harvested the largest watermelon I have ever grown.  OK,  I know
>many of you have grown larger ones,  but here on the so calif coast,  they
are
>not that easy to grow,  at least for me.  It is a Tiger Baby,  one of those
>smaller ice box varieties,  and it weighs in at just under 20 lbs.  I have
not
>cut into it yet,  but its smaller sisters have tasted great this year. :):):)
>
>Tiger baby is a hybrid melon.  Has anyone ever tried to grow seed collected
>from a hybrid melon?   It is growing with 2 other varieties of watermelon
that
>were blooming at the same time so there would have been cross-pollination,
>but do you think it is worth trying to save its seed?
>
>janet.
>
If you're quite familiar with all of the varieties that went into making up
the hybrid and they're all excellent, then go ahead because you're likely
to get one of them.  If you don't know the ancestry of the hybrid, then
chances that some are terrible melons that happen to be disease resistant
are good, and you may end up with one of them.  Why in the world would you
want to waste a season's growing time and the space a watermelon requires
just to save a dollar or two?  Margaret
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