When to Harvest Watermelon: 4 Ways to Tell + A Comparison Between a Ripe and Unripe Melon! 🍉

In this video, I’ll show you a direct comparison between an unripe and ripe watermelon and walk you through 4 signs + one bonus one on how to tell when your watermelon is perfectly ripe for picking from the garden. Then I’ll put those signs to the test and cut open the watermelon to see if we were right!

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TIME STAMPS

0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Observing unripe tendril
0:30 - Observing unripe field spot
0:54 - Weight of unripe watermelon
1:09 - Sound of unripe melon
1:33 - How to tell when a watermelon is ripe
2:06 - Observing tendril of ripe watermelon
3:02 - Field spot on ripe watermelon
3:33 - Weight of ripe watermelon
3:56 - How to water watermelon to avoid splitting
4:48 - Sound of ripe watermelon
5:13 - Appearance on ripe watermelon
5:27 - Harvesting watermelon
6:37 - Cutting open and eating watermelon
7:10 - White watermelon inside
8:12 - Outro

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