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08 Oct 12, Anna (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I just started my Rockmelon today and I live in Sydney.

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21 Feb 12, Rex (Australia - temperate climate)

Re Rock-melon pollination I accidentally planted some coriander near a Rockmelon as I have never grown either one before and the coriander flowers encouraged lots of bees , which in turn assisted in pollinating the Rockmelon, so in future that will be my plan.

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14 Feb 12, (Australia - temperate climate)

From three vines I have just one healthy rock melon growing. The others seem to form buds, grow a little, and then turn yellow and wither. Is this lack of pollination or soil deficiency?

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23 Feb 13, lita (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I pollinate the flowers myself and they seems to be lots of flowers . Some of them form buds but they only grow a little and they turn yellow and died too. Have anyone know the reasons?

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14 Apr 12, sarah (Australia - temperate climate)

how old are the plants? mine took along time(over two months) to produce female flowers, also i found the bees do a better job of pollinating if the plants are spread out rather than too inter-grown

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13 Feb 12, Nelson Shem (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Where can i purchase the seeds?

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26 Nov 12, Rich (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Just buy a rockmelon, scoop the seeds out, dry hem and plant them. I've got about 100 seedlings growing out of my compost now. I'm gonna let them grow

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24 Sep 12, cathie (Australia - temperate climate)

i got mine at diggers in victoria. they are on line and they will post you what you want

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26 Jan 12, Jenny Dutton (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

We are growing rockmelons for the first time and ave quite a few on the vinewhich are not yet ripe (haven't browned off at the stem yet) but they are getting to a good size. One appeared to ripen first on the end then rotted. Any ideas on the problem?

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29 Jan 12, Kate (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Hi! I have been growing rockmelons this year and I had 2 grow in Dec-Jan, and now at the end of Jan , I now have another 5-6 growing. Not sure why they didnt grow earlier on, but they are now growing, but I have had to manual pollinate as I havent had any bees this year flying around my flowers, so manually pollinating, but the problem for my plant is that I have mostly male flowers & hardly any female flowers and I have 5 plants. Very strange why I have sooo many male flowers. I was hoping to have a bumper crop this year of Rockies. Hope at the end of this year, it becomes a better crop for us! Do your rockies grow Round? I have round rockies, not oval as in like the store brought ones.

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