6 Juicy Watermelon Selections For The Sunshine State
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Exclamation
Exclamation is a full-season variety with blocky crimson fruit, generating high-quality 36 to 45 counts. Its interior quality is excellent with small pips and firm flesh. Growers will appreciate the strong vines adapted for later season production and Exclamation’s consistency and uniformity. It matures in 90 days.
To learn more, visit SeedWay.com.
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Premont
This new seedless watermelon variety features attractive, deep-red flesh that is super crisp. High brix and small seed pips combine to assure a sweet and tasty eating experience. Round, oval fruits are medium green with green stripes, and weigh 15 to 17 pounds. Premont has proven to have excellent shipping capabilities and shelflife.
To learn more, visit CliftonSeed.com.
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Sugarheart
Sugarheart has excellent uniformity, along with external and internal quality. It is a high-yielding variety that is tolerant to hollow heart.
To learn more, visit Siegers.com.
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SV0241WA
SV0241WA is a 60/45 count watermelon hybrid with excellent interior quality. An oblong triploid, SV0241WA also has a beautiful rind that is light green with medium-green stripes. The fruit are very uniform, with small pips, a vibrant red flesh color, and exceptional firmness and sweet taste.
To learn more, visit Seminis-us.com.
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Sweet Gem
This new high-yielding variety produces uniform round fruit with a rich, glossy dark-green rind. Attractive, deep-red flesh is crisp with small pips and a sweet, mouth-watering flavor. Sweet Gem's classy appearance and superior flavor make it ideal for local and roadside markets. Fruits weigh in at 13 to 16 pounds.
To learn more, visit CliftonSeed.com.
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Sweet Polly
Sweet Polly is a medium-large triploid with exceptional rind, appearance, and flesh qualities. The flesh is dark red, firm, and it has a strong vine. It has small pips. Sweet Polly has resistance to fusarium wilt and anthracnose race 1. It is mostly 45 count.
To learn more, visit Siegers.com.
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Sweet Polly
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Paul Rusnak is the Senior Online Editor of American Vegetable Grower, American Fruit Grower, and Greenhouse Grower magazines, all Meister Media Worldwide brands. He is based in Northeast Florida. See all author stories here.