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Banana Rockmelon
A variety of muskmelon
How to sow banana rockmelon: Direct seed. If planting indoors, use peat pots and harden off before transplanting seedlings outside.
Sun requirement for banana rockmelon: Plant in Full Sun
A vigorous, heavy-cropping rockmelon with large, long, banana-shaped fruit and sweet, delicate orange flesh, eaten in long thin strips. Seed came from Hugh Price, an elderly grower near Ōpōtiki. Prick out at 10 cm or pot into 10 cm pots.
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Banana rockmelon facts
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For banana rockmelon, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 9°C and a shortest growing cycle of 50 days at its best temperature, about 750 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your banana rockmelon will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Cucumis melo L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Dilleniidae Violales Cucurbitaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb, vine |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | climber/scrambler/scadent |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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