Melon Honeydew Orange Temptation

Melon Honeydew Orange Temptation

Approximate Seed Quantity: 10

A sweet and juicy variety with light green flesh. Ripen on the vine and harvest your fruit when the skin tone warms or the little leaf at the fruit yellows. Fruit can reach 20x18cm and weight up to 3 to 3.5kg. Download sowing guide

• Sow April to May in pots of moist seed compost
• Cover seed with 1cm of compost or vermiculite
• Maintain temperature to around 20°C keep moist but not waterlogged
• Days to germination 7-10 days
• Transplant at 2 leaf stage to a 10cm pot and grow on until planting in greenhouse
• Provide climbing support and pinch out the tip after 4 true leaves develop then train lateral branches to the 6 leaf stage before pinching out.
• If necessary, pollinate by transferring pollen from the male flower to the female (bump beneath the bloom)