Sorry but I read the whole article and don't see your referenced statement. Here is a copy of the entire torubleshooting section. Is it perhaps located somewhere else or in another article you read? Troubleshooting Watermelons are in the same plant family as squash and cucumbers, but they do not cross-pollinate successfully. Your garden will depend on bees to pollinate the flowers, so cool cloudy weather in the spring will slow down thier development. Be patient until the weather warms. Fungal diseases can multiple rapidly on melon leaves. Alternaria leaf spot, anthracnose, and gummy stem blight produce spots on leaves, while stem blight also forms bleached or tan sections on stems and rot on fruit. Downy mildew causes yellow or pale green leaf spots, while powdery mildew produces white spots on leaves. Treat fungal diseases with fungicides. Check with your local garden center or Extension service to learn which fungicides are approved in your state for the disease youÂre fighting. Melon aphids can quickly colonize a vine, so inspect leaf undersides daily. If you spot aphids, treat them with insecticidal soap. Spotted and striped cucumber beetles can attack vines, transmitting bacterial wilt disease, which causes vines to collapse. Infected vines donÂt recover. Treat adult beetles with rotenone or a pyrethrum-based insecticide; apply at dusk to avoid harming honey bees. In fact it specifically says, "Watermelons are in the same plant family as squash and cucumbers, but they do not cross-pollinate successfully." Dave

Or will the melon come out ok, but the seeds of that melon will produce a mix of the two parents? Yes, the melon will be normal but the seeds in that melon, if planted next year, may produce a mixed product.

I have been growing Montreal melons for 5 years now. They have to be started inside under neon lights, in the month of April. When transplanting into the garden, it has to be when it is warm, late May or even early June depending on the wheather. I am very much into heirloom vegetables. If you grow them, you should not grow any other kind of melon in your garden to ensure a good open-pollination (melons cross-pollinate with other melon varieties). This variety does not expand or take a lot of space in a city-type garden. I wonder what you have to offer. Send an email through my member page.

Hi Holly I am at Chandler and Mcqueen and found your post, did you ever get your ghost peppers to fruit? I started some from seed indoors and they seem very fragile...they droop immediately every time i take them outside, even for 5 minutes in AM on shady porch....some guy at a nursery told me that since they started indoors, they most likely will have to stay indoors...I have a hard time believing that. They are in front of a window and get a few hours of direct sun a day while living in our 73 degree house. I potted with good planting soil form Home Depot and water with miracle grow when they dry out. so my questions are: 1. how do i get these to survive transplant in September> 2. what are they missing nutrient wise? (fish emulsion? Iron?) why are the leaves curled? (not bugs) 3. how can I make then flower and fruit indoors? 4. when should i start seeds outdoors so that the heat won't kill the fall crop? look m up on facebook if your still growing! Richard Here is a link that might be useful: my facebook pag