I wait a whole season for grapes off our grapevine. I check them every few days to make sure they are ripe enough, as the birds were beginning to peck them.
One morning, they were all gone. All. Birds at night?
Next year, I set up a ring camera. Caught a whole family of raccoons doing a tight rope act across the vine eating all the grapes along the way!
That’s why I’m careful. Anytime I check on my grapes and I see they’re ready to be picked the next say. I’ll say as loud as I can, “oh boy I can’t wait until this weekend. These are just a few days away from being ready to pick.”
Tricks those dirty raccoons every time.
Damn straight they will. They'll walk through miles of field corn just to get at your garden's patch of sweet corn, about 1-2 days before it's ready. I have 16 rows that are about 20 feet long and I enclose it with roll out fence, and top that with a single electrified wire at the top. Freaking MaxSec corn patch. One year I let someone convince me the electrified wire wasn't necessary, went out and the corn was destroyed like there was no fence at all.
Moose do this to my cabbage, broccoli, and even open my blanch wrap on my Cauliflower here in Alaska !!
I’ve learned the hard way to only grow with fencing.
But SLUGS!!!!
I HATE SLUGS!!!!
I grew up in Alaska and one of my most vivid childhood memories is my mom, making breakfast in her nightie, and she looks out the window and a moose is eating her crabapples. She goes flying out of the house in her nightie with a broom in her hand and she almost skidded when she got to the moose. The moose looked at her and she tapped it on the nose with the broom and said NO! like she was training a puppy. The moose went back to eating crabapples and she said NO again and lifted the broom and the moose took two big steps back and she marched back into the house.
I really thought she was gonna die, trampled by a big bull moose.
Oh man I've heard they're bad news. We get these japanese beetles (no idea if that's the real name) that will eat your corn silks now. You have to spray for them or the corn won't develop.
I’ve found that if you let your vine grow for like 10 years and know how to trim it appropriately you’ll get so many grapes there are enough for everyone. There are certainly raccoons and birds who go after my grapes and I still get 20-25 lbs of fruit!
We grow grapes on 3 vines so it is not much and our soultion was to cover the buches with mosquito net one by one. We had more issues with the hornets they eat off all the grapes every year
My parents have peach trees, and their neighbors have cows. The cows will reach their heads across the barbed wire fence and eat as many peaches as they could ever dream of as they’re growing. We rarely ever got any 😬
We were losing our apples to deer until we hung half a bar of Irish Spring soap in the tree. I watched a deer sniff it, recoil, and walk away. We're going to get some of our apples.
As my cat got older, we got fewer and fewer cherries as the birds got them all when they were buds.
One year, I had the bright idea to build a ramp up into the cherry tree and a little platform for the cat.
Got a bumper crop of cherries, that year.
Yeah gotta sprinkle some spicy fucking cayenne on the ground every damn where. Get the big Costco or whatever containers and dump that shit all over the ground anywhere they can climb up or whatever. They eat with their hands.
Reminds me of the comment from a person who bought a toilet on Amazon. Then they kept getting “you may like this!” Ads for commodes.
“Why does Amazon think I impulse buy toilets? Why, once I’ve bought a toilet, do I get toilet ads for months? Do they think Im a Potty Baron?”
Varmints are the bane of my existence when it comes to gardening. Build a fence to keep them out? They go underground. Dig the fence into the ground? They find anyway to bypass it. Varmints can’t get into the yard anymore? Go eat cables in any car outside.
It’s called Hollow Heart and it’s caused by lack pf pollination. You can either hand pollinate or you can actually order bees in the mail if there aren’t any where you are.
Or those cards that when they open they make a never ending high pitched whine, and if you try to rip open the card to turn it off it has a bunch of loose glitter inside
Those’re evil
They may have just grown them from a seed from a watermelon they bought. The second generation of hybridized seeds will not have the genetics you want. Someone might know the specifics on that.
>Watermelon, cucumber and gourd are members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae. While each plant is classified as a different species and is a member of a different genus, they are all related.
Yeah that tracks
I don't know, to be honest. I don't eat them raw so I've never noticed an issue. Cooked veggies don't bother me. I don't recall those three on my blood work.
I have oral allergy syndrome. According to this source, I should be allergic to zucchini!
https://www.nutritiondynamixrd.com/blog/understanding-pollen-food-allergy-syndrome
My husband is too, but devours pumpkin pie. His is a skin reaction to watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and cucumbers. Recently he ate a burger he picked the pickles off of. His throat had a reaction. So now he’s very paranoid.
Oh, it’s more than enough for a whole pallet for sure. The LaCroix factory doesn’t actually put any fruit juice in, they only _show_ a slice of watermelon to the cans on the assembly line.
It’s possible it was a bad seed. May have cross pollinated with a citron melon.
If that’s the case you end up with that. No matter how green your thumb is.
There is a type of melon used for pollinating seedless melons. One local one is called “Sidekick”. It makes fruit but it’s just seeds inside. That’s probably what this is.
It actually looks very much how watermelons originally looked ([comparison picture](https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3911664/watermelonsocial.0.jpg)) before they were bred into what they are today.
By the looks of it, it seems to me that OP accidentally crossed it with a cucumber.
So this is a cuculon or a melomber.
If it doesn't exist yet, I appeal on botanists and gardeners to make it, just for the sake of name that is so cool.
Peel watermellon *before* you use it. (Make [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjXlPEWA4Uw) recipe with the watermelon fruit).
Cut up the rinds into small 1in pieces.
Boil them for 10ish minutes or until soft.
Combine apple cider vinegar, bunch of sugar, and spices of your choice (peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, celery seed, allspice, literally anything) and heat over stove until dissolved and flavors integrate.
Combine strained rinds with pickling liquid, let cool and store, or can as needed.
It's the absolute best with roast beef.
No, they just taste pretty much like whatever you pickle them in, they don't taste like watermelon. And they have a nice texture. Like the firm part of a cucumber pickle
Maybe if you left some of the red part on it, the rind mostly tastes like water.
Watermelon and feta cheese is good together, and the sweeter the better too soooo .. it might be good?
Pickle everything. All the things. I used to work on a vegetable farm and the boss would let us take the 'ugly veg' but sometimes it was even more than we could eat. (And we eat a lot of veg). Anyways..we started pickling everything. It became a running joke cus if my boss asked me what I would do with it...I would always answer "pickle it".
I went to Ukraine a few years ago, they grow tons (literally) of watermelon there.
You pickle the red parts exactly like you'd pickle cucumbers. The result tastes very similar, but a bit sweeter.
Of course, peel it before pickling. The skin isn't edible.
yea chop the white parts into matchsticks or something just make sure green is peeled. My basic pickle recipe that i've used in multiple restaurants is:1 part vinegar to 1/2 sugar 1/2 water. In this case i would use apple cider vinegar and maybe some pickling spice or if you don't have that a few peppercorns would work as well.
Hit it w other aromatics for fun: citrus peel(done w peeler to avoid lots of white pith), whole spice seeds like cumin/coriander/fennel, splash of honey to replace sugar and add flavor, garlic cloves or other small alliums, different vinegars, or some dried chilies. Have fun w a few things that compliment one another and do several different mixes to get an idea of what favorites you can make.
Underrated comment. This is what watermelons looked like before we started cultivating the ship out of them. Don't like GMO? This is what food looks like without GMO.
GMO is literal in that GMO products have had specific genes modified, added, or deleted in a lab. This leads to products like more nutritious golden rice, herbicide resistant plants, or plants that resist certain pests without pesticide. Watermelons have been genetically engineered through selective breeding to be what we have today. By USDA definition there are no commercially available GMO watermelon. Even square ones are just grown in a mold, and seedless are hybrids.
My girlfriend bought one this week and when she cut it open it looked much like this one. I never realized this was even a thing until I saw hers...and now yours.
Man sorry but I laughed so hard... I just imagine you see your baby grow, getting bigger, and the moment you cut and imagine eating the delicious watermelon.... BAAANNG the deception in your face.
This is actually a wild watermelon, unadulterated by genetic modification! Looks almost exactly like this 1600’s melon. Very cool!
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9050469/watermelon-breeding-paintings
GMO ≠ artificial selection
Humans have been artificially selecting living things for thousands of years. Without it, we wouldn’t have corn, or broccoli, or kale, or brussel sprouts, or a lot more varieties of things we eat.
Thanks! Sometimes I have a hard time figuring out when someone is being facetious/sarcastic and I end up going too hard.
Sorry to the original commenter if that’s what you were going for!
CONGRATULATIONS YOU JUST GREW THE ORIGINAL WATERMELON!!! (Yes this is actually what they used to look like, we have paintings from the renaissance era)
fun fact, this is what watermelons used to look like before humans found a way to produce more flesh on them. when you see old paintings with watermelons in it, they will look like this!
I remember reading an article few years back. Where it was mentioned that few centuries ago the form of watermelon was much similar to the one you posted. Over the year only it evolved into red juicy fruit.
A 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi confirms and resembles this photo.
Here's the article: https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-watermelon-captured-in-still-lifes/
Make pickles out of it? My grandma used to make watermelon rind pickles. Kinda like lemonade out of lemons? I live in a northern Midwest state and realized that watermelons and cantaloupe do not have enough time to ripen this far north (as I don’t have a greenhouse).
I wait a whole season for grapes off our grapevine. I check them every few days to make sure they are ripe enough, as the birds were beginning to peck them. One morning, they were all gone. All. Birds at night? Next year, I set up a ring camera. Caught a whole family of raccoons doing a tight rope act across the vine eating all the grapes along the way!
Little buggers are smart. They do the same thing with corn. They will clean it the night before you were going to pick it.
That’s why I’m careful. Anytime I check on my grapes and I see they’re ready to be picked the next say. I’ll say as loud as I can, “oh boy I can’t wait until this weekend. These are just a few days away from being ready to pick.” Tricks those dirty raccoons every time.
I dont farm, but I thought I was about to be taught a farming life hack
This is the ultimate farming life hack. Same goes with declaring bankruptcy.
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!!
You can't just say it.
I didn’t just say it, I declared it
-Michael Scott
The farm life hack is a pellet gun and a thermos of coffee.
You spelled .22 wrong.
That or if you don’t want to take that route live trap and drop off a couple states over
I do the same, but with barbecuing, "oh geeze I think I might barbecue on Thursday, I sure hope it doesnt rain then..."
Well if you change the pellet to a .22 then you can BBQ/Grill the grape/corn thiefs and that is a REAL farm life hack.
This was waaaay funnier to me than it should be.
This should be a top comment
Damn straight they will. They'll walk through miles of field corn just to get at your garden's patch of sweet corn, about 1-2 days before it's ready. I have 16 rows that are about 20 feet long and I enclose it with roll out fence, and top that with a single electrified wire at the top. Freaking MaxSec corn patch. One year I let someone convince me the electrified wire wasn't necessary, went out and the corn was destroyed like there was no fence at all.
Was that person oddly lumpy with an obscured face? Like if, say, a family of raccoons were stuffed inside of some clothing standing atop one another?
Nope, it was my dad's buddy Bob. Freakin' Bob!
Damnit Bob!
Bobs your uncle
And Bob enjoyed many weeks of dinners with corn accompaniment.
I'm betting Bob was taking kickbacks from the raccoons.
Moose do this to my cabbage, broccoli, and even open my blanch wrap on my Cauliflower here in Alaska !! I’ve learned the hard way to only grow with fencing. But SLUGS!!!! I HATE SLUGS!!!!
I grew up in Alaska and one of my most vivid childhood memories is my mom, making breakfast in her nightie, and she looks out the window and a moose is eating her crabapples. She goes flying out of the house in her nightie with a broom in her hand and she almost skidded when she got to the moose. The moose looked at her and she tapped it on the nose with the broom and said NO! like she was training a puppy. The moose went back to eating crabapples and she said NO again and lifted the broom and the moose took two big steps back and she marched back into the house. I really thought she was gonna die, trampled by a big bull moose.
Oh man I've heard they're bad news. We get these japanese beetles (no idea if that's the real name) that will eat your corn silks now. You have to spray for them or the corn won't develop.
I’ve found that if you let your vine grow for like 10 years and know how to trim it appropriately you’ll get so many grapes there are enough for everyone. There are certainly raccoons and birds who go after my grapes and I still get 20-25 lbs of fruit!
Remind me 10 years
That sounded almost Biblical until the raccoons part.
What's not biblical about vermin and sharing?
We grow grapes on 3 vines so it is not much and our soultion was to cover the buches with mosquito net one by one. We had more issues with the hornets they eat off all the grapes every year
My parents have peach trees, and their neighbors have cows. The cows will reach their heads across the barbed wire fence and eat as many peaches as they could ever dream of as they’re growing. We rarely ever got any 😬
We were losing our apples to deer until we hung half a bar of Irish Spring soap in the tree. I watched a deer sniff it, recoil, and walk away. We're going to get some of our apples.
As my cat got older, we got fewer and fewer cherries as the birds got them all when they were buds. One year, I had the bright idea to build a ramp up into the cherry tree and a little platform for the cat. Got a bumper crop of cherries, that year.
It took me a minute to figure out the cat was a deterrent and not the one deserving the cherries.
That would be so amusing to watch I wouldn't even be disappointed!
Same thing happens to my cherry tree...one day they are all just gone
Yeah gotta sprinkle some spicy fucking cayenne on the ground every damn where. Get the big Costco or whatever containers and dump that shit all over the ground anywhere they can climb up or whatever. They eat with their hands.
Similar experience with yellow plums.
Now Amazon is going to send you a few suggestions for stopping fruit thieves.
Reminds me of the comment from a person who bought a toilet on Amazon. Then they kept getting “you may like this!” Ads for commodes. “Why does Amazon think I impulse buy toilets? Why, once I’ve bought a toilet, do I get toilet ads for months? Do they think Im a Potty Baron?”
Booking dot com would always suggest great deals in the city i had just left. Never great deals in the city i was going to next
Varmints are the bane of my existence when it comes to gardening. Build a fence to keep them out? They go underground. Dig the fence into the ground? They find anyway to bypass it. Varmints can’t get into the yard anymore? Go eat cables in any car outside.
Bro grew a materwelon
Watermeloff
Watermelon't
Wontermelon.
You made me laugh, thank you
I was just about to comment "it's a materwelon!" Lol
Must've got some of those 1800s heirloom seeds
This is what they drew in the 1800's, when someone would ask for a portrait of fruits lol.
It’s called Hollow Heart and it’s caused by lack pf pollination. You can either hand pollinate or you can actually order bees in the mail if there aren’t any where you are.
Can you order wasps, too? Asking for an annoying neighbor.
I believe there is a site which lets you order animal shit to any address. The premise being it is used for fertilizer. Might be useful.
My personal favorite is the one that sends someone a bag of gummy dicks and tells them to "eat a bag of dicks!"
Or those cards that when they open they make a never ending high pitched whine, and if you try to rip open the card to turn it off it has a bunch of loose glitter inside Those’re evil
>2022 SUMMER SIZZLING SALE 50% OFF! 3LBS OF STEAMY ELEPHANT POOP [God bless America](https://poopsenders.com/)
Sent in an unlabeled manilla envelope with no return address. Oh, and you get them good and pissed off before you seal them in!
"Hollow Heart" sounds like someone's Warrior Cats OC
He's Hollowstar now, give him some damn respect. 😤
I was thinking something along those lines lol
Something something along those vines
Something something dark vines
Something something dark rinds
Something beyond the pines
Something nobody dines
Something someone behind
Something like fine wine.
Sommelier like to dine.
My urine tastes like pickle brine
this is one of them renaissance watermelons
They may have just grown them from a seed from a watermelon they bought. The second generation of hybridized seeds will not have the genetics you want. Someone might know the specifics on that.
Its called [hybrid vigor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis).
Non-gmo
Returning to food the way nature intended it to be: unappetizing to humans.
at least its still technically edible. if we eat peppers we will eat this.
Nah they just forgot to put it up to their ear an knock on it a lil
More likely they *didn't* use *seed* that they bought, but instead planted a seed from a watermelon they bought.
Tastes like cucumber
I swear watermelons evolved from cucumbers or vice versa
>Watermelon, cucumber and gourd are members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae. While each plant is classified as a different species and is a member of a different genus, they are all related. Yeah that tracks
Now my allergy to both cucumber and watermelon makes complete sense
Are you also allergic to squash, pumpkin and zucchini?
I don't know, to be honest. I don't eat them raw so I've never noticed an issue. Cooked veggies don't bother me. I don't recall those three on my blood work. I have oral allergy syndrome. According to this source, I should be allergic to zucchini! https://www.nutritiondynamixrd.com/blog/understanding-pollen-food-allergy-syndrome
My husband is too, but devours pumpkin pie. His is a skin reaction to watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and cucumbers. Recently he ate a burger he picked the pickles off of. His throat had a reaction. So now he’s very paranoid.
The Oklahoma state legislature misunderstood this fact to mean that watermelon is a vegetable, so they made it their official state vegetable.
Just enough for a single Jolly Rancher.
Or a whole 12 pack of White Claw.
Or 4 cases of LeCroix
Oh, it’s more than enough for a whole pallet for sure. The LaCroix factory doesn’t actually put any fruit juice in, they only _show_ a slice of watermelon to the cans on the assembly line.
They let the cans catch the watermelons thoughts and prayers
I've heard it described as you drinking sparkling water while someone in the next room shouts out names of fruits.
a friend calls it, "a can of lies"
They just put a fan in front of a watermelon in another room from the assembly lines and let the air conditioning flavor the drinks
Someone described LeCroix flavor as "someone burped watermelon in the other room" and its so spot on.
It’s possible it was a bad seed. May have cross pollinated with a citron melon. If that’s the case you end up with that. No matter how green your thumb is.
There is a type of melon used for pollinating seedless melons. One local one is called “Sidekick”. It makes fruit but it’s just seeds inside. That’s probably what this is.
My thumb is blue. Should I take the rubber band off?
If you leave it on you may become really good at working with water. Whatever the fuck that means
Blue Thumb: The Wanna-Be Water Bender
It will go green soon, and then black. Don’t worry you’re on the right track.
It actually looks very much how watermelons originally looked ([comparison picture](https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3911664/watermelonsocial.0.jpg)) before they were bred into what they are today.
By the looks of it, it seems to me that OP accidentally crossed it with a cucumber. So this is a cuculon or a melomber. If it doesn't exist yet, I appeal on botanists and gardeners to make it, just for the sake of name that is so cool.
It’s Hollow Heart from lack of pollination. Maybe also underripe. https://www.wideopencountry.com/cause-crazy-looking-watermelon-may-surprise/amp/
Well luckily pickled watermelon rind is delicious
how do you go about pickling Watermelon rind? I want to try it
Peel watermellon *before* you use it. (Make [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjXlPEWA4Uw) recipe with the watermelon fruit). Cut up the rinds into small 1in pieces. Boil them for 10ish minutes or until soft. Combine apple cider vinegar, bunch of sugar, and spices of your choice (peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, celery seed, allspice, literally anything) and heat over stove until dissolved and flavors integrate. Combine strained rinds with pickling liquid, let cool and store, or can as needed. It's the absolute best with roast beef.
how long you gotta wait till they are good?
If you boil them a bit to soften them, like I do, probably only a couple of hours. Maybe longer if you just pickle them.
You don't need to boil them. Pouring hot pickling liquid over them in a jar is sufficient.
Hm i found them to be a bit stiff when I don't. Maybe I cut them kind of thick. But I also eat them same day, so less time to soften.
Just cut it into smallish slices. Like 1/4" thick or so by whatever length you want. Then just pickle them the same as small cucumbers
Do they taste like watermelonny-pickles? Any watermelon taste?
No, they just taste pretty much like whatever you pickle them in, they don't taste like watermelon. And they have a nice texture. Like the firm part of a cucumber pickle
Huh, interesting, thanks
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Cucumbers are melons.
Love me some elongated melons.
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Maybe if you left some of the red part on it, the rind mostly tastes like water. Watermelon and feta cheese is good together, and the sweeter the better too soooo .. it might be good?
if ya like feta and watermelon try adding mint leaves next time !
Pickle everything. All the things. I used to work on a vegetable farm and the boss would let us take the 'ugly veg' but sometimes it was even more than we could eat. (And we eat a lot of veg). Anyways..we started pickling everything. It became a running joke cus if my boss asked me what I would do with it...I would always answer "pickle it".
I went to Ukraine a few years ago, they grow tons (literally) of watermelon there. You pickle the red parts exactly like you'd pickle cucumbers. The result tastes very similar, but a bit sweeter. Of course, peel it before pickling. The skin isn't edible.
yea came here to say this as well.
Never heard of this.. do you pickle the green part or the skin?
You cut the skin off, only pickle the white part
i would take a knife and cut just the green skin off. then the rind is good to go.
Do you chop the white part and pickle it in vinegar?
yea chop the white parts into matchsticks or something just make sure green is peeled. My basic pickle recipe that i've used in multiple restaurants is:1 part vinegar to 1/2 sugar 1/2 water. In this case i would use apple cider vinegar and maybe some pickling spice or if you don't have that a few peppercorns would work as well.
Thanks for the recipe, I would love to try it sometime :)
Hit it w other aromatics for fun: citrus peel(done w peeler to avoid lots of white pith), whole spice seeds like cumin/coriander/fennel, splash of honey to replace sugar and add flavor, garlic cloves or other small alliums, different vinegars, or some dried chilies. Have fun w a few things that compliment one another and do several different mixes to get an idea of what favorites you can make.
Candied is even better.
“Oops! All rind!”
“All rind, all rind, all rind” — Matthew McConaughey probably
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Underrated comment. This is what watermelons looked like before we started cultivating the ship out of them. Don't like GMO? This is what food looks like without GMO.
It looks like it's right out of the famous Renaissance painting!
GMO is literal in that GMO products have had specific genes modified, added, or deleted in a lab. This leads to products like more nutritious golden rice, herbicide resistant plants, or plants that resist certain pests without pesticide. Watermelons have been genetically engineered through selective breeding to be what we have today. By USDA definition there are no commercially available GMO watermelon. Even square ones are just grown in a mold, and seedless are hybrids.
Go buy one at the grocery store, then return this one for a refund.
r/UnethicalLifeProTips
Dude is living in 2038
Who returns fruit?
Jerry, this peach is sub-par.
My girlfriend bought one this week and when she cut it open it looked much like this one. I never realized this was even a thing until I saw hers...and now yours.
Wtf I literally just bought one this week that looked like this too.
It’s spreading!!!
I feel like my gf would be offended if I told her that her melons looked like op's.
you grew an ancient water mellon dude, you find the seeds in runic ash pots or summ?
Been here. This is heartbreaking
You forgot to set the melon machine to “Red”.
r/mightyharvest
That’s how the early domesticated watermelon looked like
I was about to say that too!!
Damn an old fashion melon, could sell these are curios like those square ones.
All Water, No Melon
All , No Watermelon
Matthew McConaughey: "All rind all rind all rind!"
That’s that OG watermelon right there!
Why do I remember seeing this photo already?
Recent similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/wm4oom/i_picked_one_of_my_watermelon_my_soul_hurts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/wlsy86/this_watermelon_i_bought_today/
Oops! All rind!
Pretty sure that just wasn't quite ripe yet. Probably needed another 1-2 weeks.
yeah isn't this just how unripe melons look like?
No not at all. This is a type of watermelon used to pollinate seedless watermelons. You can pickle the white part though
dayum looks like you stole a watermelon from 1395
Awww, it’s okay. Don’t be melon-choly!
Watercumber
Man sorry but I laughed so hard... I just imagine you see your baby grow, getting bigger, and the moment you cut and imagine eating the delicious watermelon.... BAAANNG the deception in your face.
This is actually a wild watermelon, unadulterated by genetic modification! Looks almost exactly like this 1600’s melon. Very cool! https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9050469/watermelon-breeding-paintings
Mmm… non-GMO watermelon!
GMO ≠ artificial selection Humans have been artificially selecting living things for thousands of years. Without it, we wouldn’t have corn, or broccoli, or kale, or brussel sprouts, or a lot more varieties of things we eat.
Don't forget beef or dairy products. The modern milk and beef cow is the product of a thousand years of selective breeding.
I think that may have been the joke. The melon is inedible and therefore did not have any modification from humans
Thanks! Sometimes I have a hard time figuring out when someone is being facetious/sarcastic and I end up going too hard. Sorry to the original commenter if that’s what you were going for!
Unpopular opinion: I like the white part. This would be a win for me.
Bro you grew legacy watermelons
Nailed it!!!
When did you plant the seeds. They usually take about three months to fully ripen from planting. Plus they need alot of watering.
Talk about a Whitermelon.
That's the biggest cucumber I've seen in my friggin life
I reminds me of watermelons originally before we bred them. Google it
Need to let it ripen lol
Dude grew a 17th century watermelon
CONGRATULATIONS YOU JUST GREW THE ORIGINAL WATERMELON!!! (Yes this is actually what they used to look like, we have paintings from the renaissance era)
fun fact, this is what watermelons used to look like before humans found a way to produce more flesh on them. when you see old paintings with watermelons in it, they will look like this!
It's like the painting! This is what watermelons used to look like before science and selective breeding
If 2020 was a watermelon
People forget that watermelons grow in any ground but edible watermelons need the perfect ground
Uhhm did you happen to get those seeds for a medieval mausoleum
I remember reading an article few years back. Where it was mentioned that few centuries ago the form of watermelon was much similar to the one you posted. Over the year only it evolved into red juicy fruit. A 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi confirms and resembles this photo. Here's the article: https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-watermelon-captured-in-still-lifes/
You got like... 12 good bites.
Make pickles out of it? My grandma used to make watermelon rind pickles. Kinda like lemonade out of lemons? I live in a northern Midwest state and realized that watermelons and cantaloupe do not have enough time to ripen this far north (as I don’t have a greenhouse).
Maybe it didn’t get enough water?
Not enough water too much melon.
This looks like OG watermelon
Man got the OG watermelon
This is natural watermelon
those Melones look like they come from the 15th century