Watermelon Dulce F1

Known as a “Cannon Ball” or “Sugar Baby” type, Dulce is a hybrid-seeded watermelon that has a delicious crunchy texture and a very sweet, deep red flesh. Dulce will produce medium to large fruit of around 6 kilograms in size with a dark-green skin and round shape.

There are several key indicators that will give you a pretty good idea of ripeness.

1.      Ground Spot – The underside of the watermelon where the fruits rests on the ground is known as the “ground spot”. This spot should turn from a creamy/white colour to a nice buttery yellow when the melon is mature. The colour should be a deep yellow not a creamy yellow.

2.      Tendril – the tendril on the vine directly opposite where the fruit stem joins the vine is a good indicator of ripeness. If the tendril is green the melon is not ripe. If the tendril is withered, dried and brown the melon is mature.

Patches of webbing on fruit and a hollow sound when tapping fruit are thought by some to be other indicators of fruit ripeness.