BTW, the melon is supposed to look ugly. The variety is Zatta, which is an Itialian cultivar. The day counter is from the days the seeds were sown.
For the nutrients I used the GHE flora series and followed the chart, first 2 weeks I gave the transferred seedling nutrients to encourage foliar growth and then switched to flowering nutrients (less nitrogen). The light were on 10+ hours per day.
This is my first ever melon since I put all other plant outside and they all died off due to my experience with hardening off. Also this variety may not be suitable outside in my climate without a greenhouse.
Quite an expensive growth even if some light came from the window, probably cost me almost 20 euros in total in electricity and nutrients. But next time I will grow a rarer variety since these came in like a 100+ pack for 3 euros. I have another variety called Zapotillo from Vreeken Zaden which cost me 1 euro per seed, growing this one would pay me back almost 10-fold. And also maybe cross varieties together.
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BTW, the melon is supposed to look ugly. The variety is Zatta, which is an Itialian cultivar. The day counter is from the days the seeds were sown.
For the nutrients I used the GHE flora series and followed the chart, first 2 weeks I gave the transferred seedling nutrients to encourage foliar growth and then switched to flowering nutrients (less nitrogen). The light were on 10+ hours per day.
This is my first ever melon since I put all other plant outside and they all died off due to my experience with hardening off. Also this variety may not be suitable outside in my climate without a greenhouse.
Quite an expensive growth even if some light came from the window, probably cost me almost 20 euros in total in electricity and nutrients. But next time I will grow a rarer variety since these came in like a 100+ pack for 3 euros. I have another variety called Zapotillo from Vreeken Zaden which cost me 1 euro per seed, growing this one would pay me back almost 10-fold. And also maybe cross varieties together.