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'Long Crimson' Melons

Sub-Category:	Watermelon

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Open-pollinated watermelon. Vines bear blocky, rectangular, 25- to 28-pound, red-fleshed, black-seeded fruit with tough rinds.
Days To Maturity:	80-85
Seed Sources:

Rating Summary

Overall: (4.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (3.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (3.0 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 1

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 05/08/2006 by farmerdill - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Richmond, Georgia, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This condidered a long version of Crimson Sweet. It is a great dissappointment. Under ideal conditions a pretty melon that tastes like a Crimson Sweet. I found it tempermental, sometimes good, sometime mediocre. It is not consistant or dependable in either quality or production.

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