Description
92 Days | A vigorous productive melon, used throughout the south for long distance shipping. Fruits average large specimens of 30 to 50 Lb. when well grown. Shape is nearly round with flattened ends. Rind medium thick, very tough and hard; deep bluish-green with practically no variation in color. Flesh deep red, crisp, and when full ripe fairly tender and full flavored.
Our stock of this is the Texas Giant Strain, the best in eating and shipping quality of this type of melon. Seeds are large, mottled, dark brown and produced here in the Arkansas Valley. This classic has been in our catalog since the 1941 as the Florida Giant, and through the years as Cannonball (1950s) before finally becoming the Black Diamond we know today in the 1970s, and is still asked for in our local farm markets… although not as often now, since a 50 Lb. watermelon really does need a big family to eat it all.
For the largest melons, remember to give them space… a watermelon the size of a Black Diamond will grow well beyond where a smaller watermelon like Crimson Sweet will stop.
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