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Those sweet memories never fade away. My Dad taught us the same and the dearest memory to me with him was when he took me and my sister out for a walk on first days of Spring and we stopped at some showy wildflowers swaying and glowing under the blazing sunlight and told us to smell them. I was probably only 5 then and it was my very first time learning to sniff flowers and know that flowers are fragrant! 😅 That chamomile-like sweet fragrance I filled my lungs with stuck in my head up to this date and I’m 50. Sometimes I get early whiffs of it in the air on last days of winter and I’d grin whispering ‘Spring’s here alright!’.

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What is a hollow sound

I grew up in Lakewood California and was in that area a lot. I’m 63.

Weight to size is more important than his tapping. If it’s lighter than expected, your melon hasn’t developed the sugars yet. Super heavy and she’s full of those crystal molecules

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Thank you so much for the tips….can you share when is the best time to buy a watermelon and the different types of melon. I live in FL and the the watermelon sold at Publix was the worst tasting melon.

From what I know, the thing he calls "rind", the pale part just below the skin, is edible too; juicy crunchy, but not sweet. I have wondered about the seed shells though.

Wasteful way to cut.

@Lewis Levits I just came back after buying 3 watermelons 🍉, and cut the first one and found it perfect!

@@lewislevits1193 That's where the melon rested...lol.

@Lewis Levits No. As mentioned in earlier Blogs here, it's where the melon was laying on the ground.... (NO sunlight).

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@Prospermiinow Yes, clear explanation, but inaccurate. It is misinformation. The light-colored spot on the bottom of a watermelon is the 'ground spot." The color varies not only with ripeness, but also with the variety of watermelon. For one variety a rich yellow color will indicate full ripeness, for another variety anything deeper yellow than very pale yellow will indicate the melon is overripe - you'll have mush inside instead of crispness. You have to know what variety you are dealing with, and most of the time the shipping containers will not tell you the variety. Just because 2 melons look very much the same does not mean they are of the same variety. The only way to tell the variety is to get the info from the company that supplied the seed, and that info is not often available at the marketplace. You can ask the merchant, but they are often mistaken. They may just make something up, or they may have been misled by a middle-merchant, or even by a farmer.

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You are definitely an experienced housewife or a good farmer.

Same here... I hold the watermelon in my hand and thump it with my fingers on the under side, then listen close to the top of it. You can definitely hear if it's dense - no 'echo' My grandfather showed me as a kid, what to hear. 😊

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Watermelon doesn't ripen any further once picked, so carefully choosing a good melon is a great talent to have. Don't forget the webbing. That's a sign of a melon that has bern fertilized twice, or more, and has then doubled its sugar content. I've had some that were so sweet, it was like candy. Look it up. It's true. Put "webbing on watermelons" on Google, and you'll see.

THANKS. I was wondering about that

It silmply means that it is the part that was on the ground when it was growing.

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Cut in half. Cut off a round. Cut round in half or quarters. Serve on plate..

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wash with mild soapy water and let rest for an hour in cold icy water bowl.

So many people got sick and several died from salmonella on the outside rind. The knife was the carrier of the germ

Good to know

Yes, and care must be taken when slicing potatoes and your knife goes through one that has dark-colored goo in the center. Or any color goo, for that matter, lol.

Absolutely wash with soapy water, then rinse well in RUNNING WATER. Not a sinkful, bowl, or pan of water. The trucks they are hauled in to the stores can be and frequently are loaded with god knows what from hauling only god knows what. Dirty trucks can contaminate your food. Wash your food as soon as you get it home, and don't put in into your storage spaces until you know it's clean. I know a family who lost their entire faŕm and livelyhood because the hauling trucks were contaminated and the mellons made some people very sick. Stuff happens. Don't be sstupid, nasty and greedy by suing someone when you yourself fail yo adhere to safe food practices. Good old fashioned logic says wash your hands before you eat, for good reason. Wash your food, too.

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LG, yes that's true, but of little help after you've already bought it! I'm in my seventies and when I was young, we only bought watermelons at a roadside watermelon stand. We always made a deep triangle cut in the melon and tasted it. Now the melons we buy are at the grocery store and usually they are picked way too early.

@@AKHWJ3ST or you just suck at picking watermelons

The squeeze technique absolutely works. I buy the ones that have no give when squeezed.

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I have an aunt, who agrees with you. She salts all fruit, but I think it's gross.

​@@nonmihiseddeo4181 Salt and lime is the way to go! Yum!

I grew up in Michigan, we always salted watermelon and apples! Yum!

Yes bit of salt ...

hell no , disgusting 😂

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The yellow spot shows that the watermelon was sitting in the spot long enough to become yellow and wasn't harvested too early and injected with crap. All the signs(including the brown bellybutton) to prove the watermelon sat long enough and wasn't harvested too soon

@@rafon. None are injected with anything I ever heard of. that said, the yellow spot can be different if the plant was moved, or if the soil is different. Maybe if you know what field it came out of and what the range for that field is you might have a weak data point. getting them from random fields at a store this means next to nothing. Hey you do you though.

@@GrowDespiteTrauma-fh8wz Actually we did sometimes when weeding. The daughter took over the farm and she didnt like using so many chemicals. LOL still though even ignoring that the type of soil it was sitting on makes a huge difference.

So what am I looking for then??

@@268sjh Well the thing they called the brown bellybutton is somewhat of an indicator. Seeing sticky sappy stuff, generally tells you it should be a sweet one. Personally though its like most other fruits. Buy local in season stuff for the best ripest stuff. The melon farmers KNOW they are picking them under ripe. They last longer in shipping. A half decent local farmer isnt going to have that issue and is dramatically more likely to actually pick ripe ones. with water melon in particular, going with a seeded variety will also give you much better results.

I’ve also been told that the brown lines, that look like scarring, are from the stings of bees and that helps them to be sweeter. What say you?

@@niahoward1920 Never heard that one, but it sounds good. LOL. There is still an element of luck too.

@@niahoward1920 - No. Bees do not sting unless they feel threatened. When was the last time you saw a melon threaten a bee?

@@blake_lively_matters6553 I was thinking the same thing. Why the heck would a bee end it's life to attack a watermelon? Or even mango or lychee for that matter? Are they all insane?

@@TheOriginalMarimoChan - No, they are not, but they know that there's no apostrophe in its.

By netting, do you mean the scars that have a fish scale pattern? Did you know that this is caused by bees pollinating the melon; I recently learned this from a grower that sells to grocery stores. It is awesome that you identified this on your own; I used discarded these melons.

@@nicholasneely219 Yes, that's exactly what I mean! It's usually in patches on the melon, and it looks bad but the melons are always sweet.

Yep! Seen many of these!

Yes, but I can't imagine a soft exterior could give you that hollow sound. I'm curious now to test that. Thx.

Good to know

Wow, John!-- Thanks for that tip! Because I have had mushy watermelon and it's the worst!😝

Needed this yesterday, bought a watermelon 🍉 and it was horrible 😣