Me again as well. I would love: .MELONS- petit gris de rennes small shining light watermelon black diamond yellow flesh black diamond-few orange meadowsweet white cantaloupe yellow flesh watermelon SQUASH- delicata raven-few seeds red kuri-few seeds sweet dumpling banana squash costata romanesco-few seeds chicago warted hubbard golden hubbard green hubbard blue hubbard EGGPLANT- red china diamond-few seeds thai (purple, round) ichiban hybrid 7 seeds louisiana long fengyvan few seeds green eggplant long dark red thank you again for all of these wonderful listing

Last year's cantaloupe produced tons of melons, it was a hybrid. This year I only got one melon and it was from a volunteer from last year's. The plant produced a lot less and the melon was a slightly different shape and a little larger. Seeds from an F1 are not likely to produce the same results as the parents. They usually revert to one or the other of the parent plants. As you go down in generations you get more likely to have the same results as the parent. If you had other melons in the same family odds are they crossed and you have seeds that will produce another first generation. Sometimes the desired results of the breeders comes at F2 so some hybrids seeds are F1 and some are later generations. Since we don't know the variety or what generation it was we really can't even guess what your results would be. You could save your seeds from your F1 hybrid, your F2 could be very different and if you saved the seeds from that your F3 could be different again. I don't know at what point in the generations they consider a hybrid to become open pollinated. Unless you did your own unintentional cross pollination an open pollinated plant will breed true. Many of the heirloom varieties are old seed catalog inventions and the original stories of the seeds being handed down from generation to generation were the biggest invention about them. I prefer the flavor of open pollinated varieties for everything but corn and I like saving seeds. With melons I get more reliable results with hybrids so even though I want the flavor of OP I'd rather have melons. If you wanted to save the seeds and still get results, plant one vine of your saved seeds next year and see how it does. If you like the results the year after only plant the seeds from your original saving. If you just want to be a seed saver you would save yourself some years if you started out with OP varieties.

I would guess that , cut some open you can tell that way also put a few between some damp paper towels keep moist in a shallow dish or pan I put mine on top of fridge they should sprout in 3-5 days

Is is already really overripe? If so being in the fridge is ok. Cucumber seeds should be fermented like tomato seeds. The good ones will be fat and not bendy. I've not really paid attention when saving cucumber seeds, but before fermenting, they might float even if good since they have the gel around them. Remy