Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh Thanks for watermelon tips. I usually grow my own. But Midwest weather last year really played hell on everyone's gardens. This year is looking better so going back over alot of your growing tips on everything started from only seeds. Except tomatoes. Wish me luck. Had to redo soil conditions this year due to the fact I live in a red clay soil area that drives you crazy growing things. Your tips helped solve that issue for me as well. Again thanks.

Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh excellent advice thanks.

Thanks for this video 👍I never knew this...I always did the thump test on the watermelon🍉 but wasn't sure what I was listening for 😂😂😂 I even thought it may have been an old wise tale 😂😂😂 guess you could say I was thumping for good luck and because mostly it was a wise tale tradition to thump🍉 🤣🤣🤣 so glad I can inspect and thump a watermelon now and actually look like a professional now 🍉🍉😂🍉🍉

Also press on the blossom end. It will show signs of age more than the sides. An overripe melon will have an area around the blossom end with pronounced softness.

Larry Tischler thanks for that. So is that a good or a bad thing? I bought one yesterday checking all the signs as to the video. Wasn’t very sweet. I live in uk.

right to the point

fo su

Yes!

nice grandma

Agreed. Too much talky talky is annoying.

Plus no 6 minute long sponsorship for some BS company like A1 greens that’s a $100 a month multivitamin with barely any B12

Nice

Lol😂Exactly

True.. Ha ha

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It all started with my humble beginning...

Very true

Which have to buy

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is that necessary? the video is only 2min long..if they cant watch it then let them enjoy nasty melon!

Oodle A Noodles It’s just an overview to help you remember the main points on the video :)

I'm confused. He said if it has a green stem but pointed to a brown one. And then said if it has a brown stem but pointed to a green one. I'm confused. Did he get it backward or am I misinterpreting it

There you are ,,,, always one writing a novel about so long could make a video about it , armchair backseat driver,,, you read every bit of that off google

Hmmmmmm

I love watermelon. I have one question…sometimes the melon is plenty red, and even plenty moist, but it is soft and “mushy,” such a disappointment! I like it sweet, moist, and firm! How do I avoid purchasing mushy watermelon? Is it too ripe, or not ripe enough, and how do I know? Thank you! You sound like a real expert!

@@cydkriletich6538 you have the same taste as me. On the video, when he say if pressing on watermelon make the rind has dent, it is ripe. I think we can know the watermelon is too ripe or not defending on how much force we use to press.

i was always told to push the stem area, if its soft then its over ripe.

Yes the watermelon cut up sold in grocery stores in plastic containers is gross an slimy.

Thank you!

Thank you 👍🏽🍉☀️

Yup it even last days outside at room temperature sitting up like that. I wouldn't recommend but it does lol

If it last until slimy, it's not good at all

Just tap it and listen for a hollow sound. I find that's the best way

vilod Thanks for this video. I have always been afraid to buy a watermelon because I had no idea about what to look for to make sure it was ripe. Now I know!

Yes exactly I hate long winded ass videos this was perfect

vilod agreed! keyword ‘to the point!’ Hate posts that don’t answer shit promptly 🙄

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Watermelons & mangos.Great summer fruits on a warm day at the beach.Brings back memories.Just like oranges at halftime at the football.

Ahhh how water melons unite us

I just showed my mom this video. I told her years ago that the best way to sweet and crunchy watermelons were to first look for the ones where the watermelon had a large yellow spot followed by thumping it for a hollow sound. She never caught on till I finally looked it up, today, and showed her this video. I learned this method from a farmer's market seller. I picked one and he told me I picked the wrong watermelon. He then looked through them and picked two of them for me explaining what to look for. Man, those two watermelons were like drinking sugar water.

Ripeness can also be tested by sniffing the flower end of the fruit - when it's ripe, a slight press on the flower site, will get the aroma of it

We thought everybody knew these simple facts. Let us cook.

@@chefgiovanni shut up

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ this is why nobody likes your religion, nobody wants some old grandma digitally being a misionary

CeeCee Nunya prettiest I’ve have ever seen has been in Colombia 🇨🇴 I don’t like 🍉 but there Omg I thought it was a different fruit ! But if I find one like he suggest I will give it another try at home .

Than you have seen nothing.

@@moviecat7697 How or where do you pick a good melon ?

Yeah I gasped too at it's beauty when he cut it.

@@fishfire_2999 In Asia you have good melon.

The reason for not going in the watermelon patch is because that's where babies come from. You don't want to upset the babies before they're ripe!

The reason for not going in the watermelon patch is because that's where babies come from. You don't want to upset the babies before they're ripe!

Same i knew the hollow sound i learned it from watching a movie

When its with the brown edge that means its not good hm is it like that plz !??

@@ateeqmalik3364 brown edge means it is good.

You are weak

Why to mankind only? A lot of animals like it too.

I mean, technically we selectively bred it into the fruit you know today. It used to be mostly rind. "To taste a watermelon is to know “what the angels eat,” Mark Twain proclaimed. The angels, however, would have gagged if they had eaten the watermelon’s wild ancestor-a bitter fruit with hard, pale-green flesh. Generations of selective breeding, spanning several countries and cultures, produced the sweet red fruit that’s now a common sight on picnic tables."

@@KeithTreason Aw shit here we go again.

@@yeelahowah7476 Regardless, he isnt wrong about the original "God-made" watermelon. Man perfected it. The end.

Funny. I always thought they came from the ground.

His demonstration is partial. What he had to do is buying the both watermelons and show that the yellow patched one is better than the green stemmed one without a yellow patch. It is hard to do a good demonstration and saving money at the same time.

@@harshakumara970 true

No lie there

Same im thinking about growing some

@@get_understanding I want to know what they need to grow well.

@@ldplays9431 compost, good soil that drains well, and lots and lots of water

@@get_understanding Is central Europe warm enough to grow them?

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Hehehe

I know how it feels, with all that effort.

View Bot # 34 And thinking your getting a red watermelon only to get a yellow one and it was not sweet ! I was creeped out by the color for some reason.

My sympathies with you.🙏🙏

You right😁

mak its u again

Oml how tf are you on every video I watch?😭

Agreed

Get lost weirdo

Why am I seeing you back again ? 😂 Yt algorithm

Are you mean is full information but there is no systematic way or step by step to select?

Yes, we cater for your needs! When you want something, just whisper it and you will find it here or in your facebook. Hahahahah.

More like " Stem, Sun spot, Sound, Soft skin "

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nah, just tap it 3 times, it's easier to remember.

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w00tec LOL😆

Found this on recommend too

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Thank you :)

Lol, so do I!!

Me too

I *Always-Do!! 😀🍉👍💕

I *Always_Do!! 😀👍💕🍉

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If you die today there are some people in this world who will dislike it.🙄🙄🙄

Don't know what happen to people these days. I saw a 'rescue sea turtles from barnacle project' video and it had thousand of dislikes. I mean, wtf, they are trying to save sea turtles why the dislike? People can be so thoughtless smh

People are just angry and because of internet dissociative disorder, there's no connection with their actions on social media.

@@johnlabu1154 I saw one where after they saved the turtle they threw the plastic back in...and almost everyone was complaining about that... Its always something...!

@@gavindy_Sv2 detachment...no r the percussion

Where do you live , Alaska?

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Hi

I stopped by a street vendor in Goa, India (2016) and like you said the guy did a pyramid cut on the side of the melon put the skin-side on the tip of the knife and extended it to me. I thought he was giving it to me to taste it. But apparently not! He quickly put the plug back into the watermelon. Over there, they do it so they can show how red / ripe the fruit is inside!! Well that was awkward!!

Sweet corn too in the summer. You could bite the kernals uncooked

In India farmers still cut a plug to taste whether it is sweet

For most fruits, heavy for the size applies. Especially for citrus and other water heavy fruits. If it's something that you bite into and is juice, the heavy for the size thing is likely to work.

Totally agreed. I would pick the small yellow spot ones too, so sunshine reached more areas on them. The big yellow spots don't taste as good as they always sit on the ground behind the sun.

They just want you to pay more

seedless is not GMO (genetic modified). seedless is genetic engineered.

So true.... money money money, no quality, silly people

and remember bois-a little dab will do it hee hee

Yah, I'm sure nobody can tell paint from a faded yellow spot, and that it won't flake off.....

Don't squeeze it, if you find one! 8-(

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So the males don’t have the seeds?

@@maryc530 - As I said, the males have fewer seeds. It’s accurate. If you are making a tomato sauce, you want tomatoes with more pulp and fewer seeds. Same for eggplant recipes. More pulp, less seeds makes a much nicer result. Cucumbers, zucchini, peppers too. Here’s another tip I’ve taught my daughters when picking a spiral ham…..squeeze it. If it soft….it’s very fatty, if it’s firm…it’s lean. Works every time.

@@ScotchIrishTarheel - lol

@@ScotchIrishTarheel When I grab the butt of a pig, he squeals. Is that a good sign?

@M Chapman, I can't speak to the reason(s) behind your success in choosing those veggies based on your observations, but if it works for you, that's great! However, I'd like to try and explain some of the science and how there are no male eggplants, tomatoes or squashes, if anyone is interested. Those veggies are fruits, meaning they are the ripened ovary of the plant. Ovaries are female sex organs whether in plants or animals. The eggplant, tomato or squash we eat is the ovary that contains the seeds (in animals, these are eggs and we don't eat the ovary, just the egg). The male part of those plants is the male flowers which contain stamens that produce pollen (in animals this would be sperm). The pollen fertilizes the seeds. So, what we eat is the female part of the plant that holds the seeds (again, think of an ovary holding eggs). Some fruit will ripen without needing pollination, so they are what we call seedless, though the undeveloped seed is still there (think about the white seeds in seedless watermelon, where seedless more accurately means it has unfertilized, immature seeds). However, the amount of seeds in the fruit is dependent on the genetics of that variety. How developed the seeds are when the fruit is consumed will affect how prominent the seeds are to us and determine how or when we consume it. For example, we usually prefer to eat cucumbers with as undeveloped seed as possible. We control for that by picking before they get mature (most turn yellow, get bitter, and develop hardened seeds when fully ripe, nothing you want to eat). But, we can also grow varieties that can grow cukes without fertilization, a genetic trait called parthenocarpy. So when we harvest, as well as how many seeds a plant is genetically coded to have, are the factors affecting how seedy we perceive them to be. In general, when the seed has been fertilized, it developes as the fruit ripens. We may eat different fruit at different stages of ripeness, but the seed, whether fertilized or not, is there. That fruit is the female sex organ of those plants and they do not make male fruit, no more than a rooster can lay eggs.

if thats the case just make a juice out of them

Yea, i like it crunchy too.