St Augustine, FL (Zone 8b) | February 2014 | neutral
When I lived in Ohio I had great success with Crimson Sweet. It produced basketball-sized sweet melons that literally dripped with sugar ...Read Morewater, and were the sweetest melons I have ever had! I tried it again up there and had poor success because a cold snap occurred in July when the fruit was setting, and I ended up with baseball-sized fruits. If it's warm and humid (in the day as well as at night) this one will be worth trying! I'm in Florida now and tried it again, and it didn't seem to do too well here for some reason, but I had GREAT success with Jubilee watermelon here in St. Augustine, Florida!
Hanceville, AL (Zone 7a) | February 2011 | positive
We have grown this one in the times past. It is a real good watermelon. The difficulty with growing melons here is coyotes. All God's ...Read Moreanimals like sugar. I am going to try it again this year and we will see.....
The Crimson Sweet was the standard shipping melon until the advent of the hybrids in the past year or so. It is a round medium green with...Read More darker green stripe melon which averages about 22 lbs. It is adaptable and will grow larger or smaller depending on plant density without adverse effect on the flavor. A red fleshed melon of excellent quality.
When I lived in Ohio I had great success with Crimson Sweet. It produced basketball-sized sweet melons that literally dripped with sugar ...Read More
we have planted this melon the last two years (beside sweet corn) and it has NOT produced any fruit at all. What could we possibly be doing wrong ??
We have grown this one in the times past. It is a real good watermelon. The difficulty with growing melons here is coyotes. All God's ...Read More
The Crimson Sweet was the standard shipping melon until the advent of the hybrids in the past year or so. It is a round medium green with...Read More