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We grow our sugar baby watermelon plants organically and guarantee them to arrive alive and thriving.
Baby watermelon plant. The small size of the fruits and relatively short time to harvest make sugar baby on of the easier varieties to cultivate. The inner flesh is sweet and red with dark brown seeds. Plants grow 8 to 10 inches tall on compact vines that arent too long making it suitable. The round 12 lb dark green skinned melons grow 8 in.
It is one of our most popular varieties. Sugar baby watermelon plants produce super sweet red fleshed 8 inch fruits on compact vines. Sugar baby watermelon light full sun fruit size 8 to 10 pounds matures 78 days plant size long vine plant spacing 48 inches apart. As the name suggests sugar baby serves a sweet bite.
Sugar baby melons typically do not exceed 10 pounds with flavor red flesh and a light green rind with dark stripes. Aphids and nematodes as well as diseases such as anthracnose gummy stem blight and powdery mildew may all afflict the sugar baby watermelon crop. For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season plants may be started indoors in peat pots. Why you should grow sugar baby watermelon 1.
This early season melon also packs a high level of healthy antioxidants. Its brix value which measures total sugar. Lastly these melons like all melons are pollinated by bees. The plants have both yellow male and female flowers.
Sweet fine textured medium red flesh. The melon is round with striped skin when immature changing to a dark greenish black when ripe. Sugar baby is an early season watermelon coming to maturity approximately 75 days after germination.
