I've been told this. Lay a broom straw crossways on top of the melon. If the straw swings around
and is parrallel to the stem and butt end, it is ready to pick.
 
There's a little squiggly pig tail near the stem end. When that withers and dries up, it is ripe. I also give them a thump, listening for the hollow sound.

Larry
 
What Larry says never fails. There's the thumping test, but I end up running around thumping every one of them and they all sound alike. I rely on the pigtail dry up.
 
Years ago we raised melons and had an old gentleman show us that and it works the majority of the time.
 
My wife loves water melons. She even wanted a melon a day before she had our daughter at Ft Bragg, NC. Hal
PS:That daughter is now 60.
 
An old timer in our neighborhood raised and peddled watermelons. He said to roll them over and look on the white bottom for little black specks - kinda look like fly specks. He raised good melons. Rattlesnake melons were his variety.

I'll thump them, just in case anyone is watching. Makes it look like you know something when maybe you don't, ha.
 
Gordy, had an old guy (long deceased) who grew an acre or so of melons each year as a truck gardener show me this many years ago; he even demonstrated how it DIDN'T work on the young melons. Still not sure what the "trick" is, but wanted to say thanks for the memory recall.
 
My Dad told us to thump the melon and thump are head if they sound the same they were ripe. Yes the hollow sound. LOL I still us the thump. Enough said.
 

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