Watermelon «Melitopol» - mid-season variety. Vegetation period 80-88 days. Long-braided, the length of the main lash is 3-4 meters. Fruits are round, large, average weight 4-5 kg, sometimes reaches 14-18 kg. The bark is 1-1.8 cm thick, green, with dark green stripes. The pulp of the fruit is red, sweet, juicy, granular.
Productivity up to 400-500 kg per hundred square meters. Very well kept.
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Watermelon is grown in open ground and greenhouses on light soils. Sowing in open ground is carried out at the end of May. Sowing seedlings - in late April, early May. When the threat of frost has passed, the seedlings are planted in the ground (at the age of 30-35 days, in the phase of 3-4 true leaves) according to the scheme 80x200 cm.
As the plants grow, they form into one stem, removing side shoots, and leaving 2-3 ovaries. Further care consists in watering, fertilizing and loosening.