How to choose a watermelon: tricks, which I told the farmer

Watermelon ... Everyone loves those huge emerald and pink berries. Sometimes it seems that choosing a good specimen of a very difficult and it is only by, for example, our grandfather, gardener. But actually it is not so difficult, because of the maturity of striped fruit can be determined without having a seasoned eye and without removing the peel.

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In ground spot





Yellow (otherwise earthy) spot - a place that watermelon lying on the ground, when keeping up. In the mature fruit is the spot to be brownish-yellow or orange-yellow, not white.

By "bee cobweb"





These are not very nice brown spots on the watermelon say that bees are often touched fetal ovary during pollination. The more pollination occurred, the sweeter watermelon.

by gender





Among gardeners spread division watermelon fruit on the "boys" and "girls". "Boys" have a more elongated shape, the taste more watery. A "girl" is more round and very sweet.

By weight and volume of





It is best to choose not the largest, but also not a small watermelon. The best - average. And it should be remembered that a good watermelon is always quite heavy for its size.

By ponytail





Dried tail always indicates that watermelon has reached the desired degree of ripeness. If the tail of green and fresh, the fruit is not yet ripe.

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