EACH MELON HAS A VERY FEW SEEDS!!! WATERMELON CRIMSON SWEET IS ALSO KNOW AS WARPAINT – A BIG, JUICY FAMILY SIZED WATERMELON THAT HAS FEWER SEEDS AND A IS A LONG LASTER – WILL KEEP LONGER IN THE FRIDGE AND ON THE VINE! EACH ONE WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT PATTERN!

Warpaint Watermelon is named for it’s distinctive striping. The fruits grow quite large, up to about 10 kg in weight. This variety of Watermelon has good disease resistance. This variety is also called Crimson Sweet.

Watermelon ‘Warpaint’ is delicious when eaten straight or added to mixed fruit salads. The flesh of this variety has a fine texture and is very sweet. Watermelon seeds are also perfectly edible if you don’t feel like spitting them out.

There are many tricks you can use to tell whether your Watermelons are ripe, two of my favourite methods are as follows. The first way is to give the Watermelon a firm tap, if it sound hollow (a dull thud) it’s ripe, but a thud which sounds sharper and rings longer means that the Watermelon isn’t ripe enough to eat yet. This method takes a little practice to learn the difference in sound between a ripe vs unripe Watermelon.

The second method involves looking on the bottom of the melon at the lighter coloured patch where it makes contact with the ground. If the patch is a white or pale green in colour then the Watermelon isn’t ripe, if it’s yellow or cream coloured the Watermelon is good to eat. Don’t pick your Watermelons too early as they won’t continue to ripen once picked.

Grow Notes
Prefers full sun in moist, well-draining soil.

Susceptible to mildew, water the roots not leaves.

Sow
Sow direct in Spring or after frost. Planting seeds at a depth of 20mm with 75cm plant spacing and 125cm row spacing.

Keep soil moist, not wet.

Germination
10-14 days at 27-32°C

Maturity
90 days