I have fresh Korean sweet melon to trade , am looking for kabosu citrus fresh or something interesting ...

Hi, I don't have any citrus but I have many imported vegetables have a look at my trade list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OcV53m0zozdGPg61KumseechQakLHclqlpS7mo9hQo0/edit?usp=sharing

I had a look at your trade list and I am also interested in the Meyer's Lemons, Edamame, and White bitter melon. Let me know if you find anything you would like to trade, I will be updating my list a few times this coming week or so as many things are arriving.

Cheers~

My list is not updated , but i still have Meyer's Lemons, Edamame, sorry white bitter melon is out .

Looking your list some i like is not available

PM me with what you are interested in, I have some seeds for many of the non-available items.

hi, talencat. Have you harvested Korean yellow melon yourself? I planted the last yr, but unsuccessful. Can you give me some tips to grow chamoe? Thanks in advance

I know you asked Talencat but here is some input I have from growing Chamoe and other similar Asian melons in the past. 1, germination is much better if your start them indoors as they need high soil temp to germinate, this is very important seeing you are in zone 5 (like I am). 2, transplant 2 weeks AFTER your last frost or even later if possible. I usually transplant into covered rows to keep them warm in night otherwise they grow to slowly early in the season. 3, need full sun or as much sun as possible. 4, they grow best if trellised and grown vertically instead of on the ground, this improves airflow which prevents disease and keeps the fruit from rotting on the ground. 5, make sure to allow them to vine ripen, they don't ripen well off the vine if picked too soon. Growing melons in zone 5 is not easy.

Thanks JayXX for your comments. I DID all your tips up to 3, but 4. I transplanted too late in the season. Did you do any cutting stems off?

I will be looking forward to seeing your success this fall provided no leaf diseases which I had last year, infected my chamoe as well.

Maybe I am partial but I think these Korean Chamoe taste better or as good as sweet honeydew.

Hello Kay and Jay , sorry to reply late ,as Jay said they grow best in sun , soil is sand mix cow manure and garden compost , i harvested my melon , last year i grow some in ground and some in pot . In ground the melon are bigger than in pot and sweeter , hope this help .

hi, talencat, what is the ratio you mixed all that good stuff (sand: cow manure: garden compost)? I just want to know about. I SO want to eat Korean melon I grow !!! Thanks for your tips.

I mix 1/3 of each if you put it in ground , in the pot you mix potting soil and 1/3 of cow manure , compost is optional

Thank you talencat, for soil mix ratio. Happy gardening!

Agree with the soil prep, manure, either cow, horse or chicken helps to get them going for sure. Sandy (well draining) soil helps prevent rot root and some diseases. Growing organically can be more tricky though if you are just getting started so don't be afraid to get a year or 2 experience growing using commercially balanced fertilizers. Just try something well balanced like 10-10-10 or similar type fertilizer. As you gain more experience you will learn what organic alternatives you can use for what your plants are lacking.

As for cutting do you mean defoliating by removing leaves or do you mean trimming growth tips? Also you can grow your honeydew and other melons on trellis as well, just use something to support them once they start to get heavy so they don't break the vines or fall off prematurely.

Also for a really basic level guide try this:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU36HikIV1k

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwqQghhHI8

Thank you, Jay XX, I have watched this man in video with cucumber and he buried a whole fresh fish into each hole before planting cuke starters. I didn't know his wife is an oriental, possibley Korean? Thanks a lot! I surely would like to grown chamoe well this year. Thanks!!

yes she is Korean.

Hi, Jay, I am in the middle of watching part 1 just before planting baby sprouts. He IS, IS burying fish here, too. I am going back to video.

Do you bury fish too?

I have in the past when ever I had fish, fish is a good natural fertilizer. But as I said before you can just go with a commercial fertilizer. The biggest issue you may have with going organic with fish and manure and other things is pathogens, possible herbicide contamination if you source manure, leaves or grass clippings from local sources, over doing it on some nutrients but end up lacking or smothering out other nutrients, or if you have to much non-composted materials it can deplete the available nitrogen and starve the plant.

I tried some small, Asian melons about 20 years ago; they were yellow when ripe, and about the size of my hand. It had been advertised as a thin skinned, "eat all" melon. The flesh was whitish, fairly thin, and was only faintly sweet... disappointing. Are the melons you mention similar to what I grew?

One word of caution, regarding the fish-fertilization method. Some
years back, I tried fertilizing hills of melon transplants with fish
cleaning remnants (head, skin, entrails), buried about 8-9" deep. A
couple days later - and after the transplants were in - I returned to
find every single hill completely dug up, and the transplants
destroyed. Apparently a roving omnivore (in my area, probably a skunk or
racoon) smelled the fish & dug them up. I never had plants dug up
like that before or since... so if this is your first time using fish as fertilizer, just be aware of the possibility of losses, and have extra plants on hand as backups.

Jay, I don't have the melon seeds you are looking for... but if you ever again have any of the Japanese edamame soybeans available, I hope we can arrange a trade. I am a large-scale collector (see my trade list), so I'm sure I have something which interests you.

Hi, zeedman, ' chamoe' or korean melon is words you may want to search. You will see yellow with pale yello stripes. It is not faintly sweet if we are talking about the same melon. Golden yellow color should be very sweet like honeydew melon.

Hmmm... that appears to be quite similar to what I grew in the 80's. I lived in San Diego at the time, so plenty of time to get fully ripe. The seed was, I recall, purchased from an American seed company, maybe they had inferior stock... or maybe I just didn't grow them properly. I was a much younger gardener then. ;-)

I wouldn't mind trying them again. Probably difficult in my present location, but I love a challenge... getting okra & limas to succeed here wasn't easy either.

Hey I was wondering your location? ImI'm trying to get ahold of chamoe seeds in australia. Proving impossible