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15 Nov 13, Denise (Australia - temperate climate)

I'm a bit late with this reply, but sometimes plants just produce a lot of male flowers before they start producing female flowers. The key is to have patience here, which can be hard ;) Hope you had a good crop!

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18 Feb 12, sandra (Australia - arid climate)

I think if you have too many male flowers because you have planted too many plants too close together, and my rockies are round also!

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28 Jan 12, (Australia - arid climate)

I had that happen with watermelon also. Plus I am growing Rockmelon for the first time. But so hard heaps of vine but only 1 fruit. So I am watching it and caring for it with so much love.

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18 Feb 12, sandra (Australia - arid climate)

You may be caring for your plants too much, possibly too much fertilizer, they don't mind a bit of neglect!

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25 Jan 12, Jan (Australia - temperate climate)

Our rockmelon vine is prolific with plenty of Vine & the fruit almost growing on top of each other. Does the fruit need sun exposure or just the vine? The vine is covering all the fruit will they ripen that way? Thanks Jan

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03 Feb 12, John (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I have found sometimes the intence heat of the North West W.A. effects the flower set. Try March to September. Had the same trouble with watermellons too.

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24 Jan 12, mal (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I live in hoppers crossing vic and have raised veggie beds in my front yard. I have several rockmelon plants laiden with quite large fruit. I never expected them to grow this well considering the location I am in, is this unusual?

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01 Feb 12, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

hi iam in hoppers aswell we have a lot of melons how can you tell when they are ready do they change colour"?

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08 Jan 12, kate (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I have 4 rockmelon plants in my terracotta pot out on the balcony and they are growing really well. I have 3 small rockmelons growing on them (they are still green). I actually got these seeds from the rockmelons from the supermarket out of the half rockmelon I purchased. I took them out of the rocky & dried the seeds out and replanted them. Voila..... I have my own plants growing. Our season here in Victoria has been all over the place. But I am pleased to say that I finally have rockmelons going on my balcony in a bigish terracotta pot.

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30 Dec 11, Jane Williams (Australia - temperate climate)

We planted, bought seedlings about 8 to 10 weeks ago. The vines are growing well and have lots of little yellow flowers, but no sign of any melons forming as yet. We have other veggies in that the bees seem to like but haven't seen any on the rock melon flowers at all. Do we need to hand pollenate them?

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