I Turned My Balcony Into A Watermelon MAZE

[@desapparently]

For those who dont know: Watermelons are also bred this way so that farms can gain a competitive advantage by making it impossible to grow the same produce as theirs. It's a grummy marketing move that ultimately makes the fruit not taste as good and makes consumers reliable on grocery store fruits. Most "seedless" fruits you find are for this reason if I understand correctly.

[@bloodlove93]

i can buy and grow a fair number of seedless fruits and vegetables it's harder but not impossible there's a couple weird methods I'm not familiar enough with to speak on,but the ways i know of fairly well are cuttings,clippings, air layering, think I'm forgetting something, but all you need is a small bit of the base plant itself... think it's hard? yes and no,kinda depends honestly, i can get golden kiwi (Australia and new Zealand exclusive commercially) and miyazaki mangos(those fancy expensive af Japanese ones they take way too much pride in,and mangos are NOT true to type ergo miyazaki seed won't give miyazaki mango) also i can grow a seedless melon berry aka che fruit a cross between mulberry and lychee , so depends on the sites and sources you've found, so it's not impossible... for information on weird way KZbin the person who grew a pink pineapple.

[@QuesoDiya]

Now I can grow my own watermelons without having to redo it over and over and get frustrated!👍😄 Thank you Jessie!🤗❤

[@growithjessie]

awwww that makes me so happy. thank YOU! keep me updated???

[@QuesoDiya]

@@growithjessie alr! Will do

[@Mintybutter]

@@QuesoDiyaupdate?

[@Aoifes_Angels]

Update?

[@lalareeves1941]

My mom accidentally grew one cute medium size pumpkin. She took our old pumpkins and dropped them into our garden. Somehow some of the seeds ended up in the ground and were growing and we didn't even know it. Until we started seeing a mysterious plant in our garden one day. It ended up being a pumpkin plant. It took almost a whole year I think, but the plant took over the entire garden! We ended up figuring out it was from the pumpkin, because we saw one little tiny pumpkin hidden inside all the leaves that took over the garden whenever my mom was cleaning out the garden. She ended up leaving all the plants everywhere expecting us to have tons of pumpkins. We didn't, we only had one pumpkin out of all that took over the garden. 😂 But needless to say we somehow we successfully grew our own ONE perfect sized pumpkin. ❤ 🎃👌

[@bloodlove93]

in ice age: the last pumpkin

[@ab-mn2yq]

They are also without viable seeds to keep us dependent on the producer, to keep us buying their watermelon/products. If they decide to no longer sell us , we are in a bad situation. Thank you for teaching us how to select viable seeds and grow our own watermelon plants. It is a wonderful things to be more food secure.

[@bloodlove93]

i can buy seedless fruit and vegetables online that i can plant at home, you just need a small cutting of the plant to grow another Seeds aren't the only way of plant propagation.

[@jjtonks5005]

Jessie, you are AWESOME 🤗

[@growithjessie]

thank you so much

[@narithasalik]

Hi jessie, i wanted to say thank you for your spectacular videos. i have been loving plants since i was four, and i want to be a botanist one day, and you inspire me so much thank you ❤🎉😂😊

[@kateymateymusic1]

You put an incredible amount of prep into these videos over a few years.....hats off to you. Now I'm gonna go buy me a watermelon with seeds and a cantaloupe....If australia is in for the hot spring and summer they predict I might be able to grow me some.

[@growithjessie]

thank you so much. I really appreciate your kind comment. it means the world to me. let me know how your growing journey on watermelons go!

[@REWINDMODZ]

Thanks for all the videos ❤

[@tonycarusone7225]

I love watching your videos

[@Kikilee123]

Lol, I actually grew a pumpkimelon on accident in my beginning gardening years. Green striped on the outside, pumpkin on the inside! My boys were disappointed that we didn’t get to eat the yummy watermelon we were expecting, but we did get to enjoy laughing at our surprise and naming our little hybrid! 😂

[@nicolesaintdenis]

Love the long form videos. I see your neaurimagical too ❤ hyperfixations

[@tammybrazeau1213]

You amaze me, girl. You must try cucamelon. It's a cucumber that is shaped like a watermelon, and boy is really good. Keep on with the growing. Btw I just took 3 avocado plants out of one of my worm bins. Time to transplant them and as you told us b4 to cut it in half.

[@growithjessie]

thank you so much for your beautiful comment. I appreciate you. And btw that is so cool

[@bloodlove93]

late but a few plants that might help are cucamelons pepino melons and pepino berries, hope you can try and get good results thanks for the fun chimera farming idea.

[@reecopeaco1004]

1:46 in Australia they cut watermelons into quarter sized slices making it easier for this and currently I am trying to grow watermelons .I planted the seeds 7 days ago and they haven’t sprouted yet and I dug up one of the seeds and it hadn’t even changed at all but I think it was more squishy and yes they were black seeds,ask in comments for updates

[@spacehunter2018]

Omg just this morning I was watching ur avocado video and I was wondering when you'd upload next

[@growithjessie]

that makes me so happy you have no idea

[@spacehunter2018]

i've actually been growing my own watermelons when i stole my sisters watermelon seeds. and now they're like 16cm tall and already have 5 new leaves growing. This video helped me understand what to do and thank you so much!

[@MsCherokee70]

Another GREAT video... I will need to get myself some Watermelon radishes! LOOKS so yummy. Yes, this summer heat is still HOT down here. The heat index is 92* right now....and finally a Little bit of rain at my location. Keeping my garden alive, has been a big challenge this year. It has been so dry for 2½ months! I just started a small part my fall/winter graden... and still have lots of other summer veggie/foods still growing. Need to clean out my greenhouse and get things ready for winter time. We never give up either. 🤗 Much respect to you, for not giving up & for making us smile! Thank you 😊 #GROW !!!! From us here zone 7B, down in Virginia. ~Squirrel⚘~

[@growithjessie]

thank you so much. that means the world to me

[@tammybrazeau1213]

I woke up in Ottawa Ontario area this morning to snow on the ground 🙃

[@bloodlove93]

might be interested in i think it's called purplesnax carrot

[@ScarlettAlkilani]

love yyour vids! im growing a moneyplant. any tips?

[@growithjessie]

thank you so much. money plants really like a lot of sun so make sure they get that and they will thrive! mine almost died because it was in too much of a shady spot, but i moved it and repotted it into a sunnier spot and it's thriving now

[@kris2455]

Next season I will try watermelon radish! It sounds like a lot of fun! 🙂

[@growithjessie]

yes! thank you so much for stopping by! keep me updated if you try itttt

[@RI3N0]

🍉 yummy 👍

[@growithjessie]

you can say that again!

[@Kat_plants_yaaaa]

❤❤❤ this was so entertaining lol 😅

[@Babu_Deus]

I could send you so many seeds Jess. I save them from fruit I get and grow them.

[@Technoxity]

Wow! Thanks for sharing, have you any success with store bought cantopes? I have them growing wire thin with very papery leaf folds.

[@growithjessie]

thank you for stopping by! yes i did this with store bought cantaloupe seeds

[@A.A.A.X]

I love ur vids

[@growithjessie]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@A.A.A.X]

@growithjessie your welcome

[@Blushberryofficial]

My watermelons 🍉 are growing but im not sure if they will survive my overwhelmingness and excitement especially when i love watermelon 😋 i guess we wait 😂❤

[@Blushberryofficial]

Im put cantaloupe today too in the soil 😂❤

[@growithjessie]

that makes me so happy. it's all trial and ERROR. so keep it waiting and also keep me UPDATED!!!

[@growithjessie]

do itttttt and keep me updated!

[@A_Wee_spook]

What happened to the zucchinies was from the humidity. Also, you might not be able to crossbreed a watermelon to pumpkins, but you can crossbreed the other melons to the watermelon, and if the flowers of the different plants were out at the same time, the bees might have done it for you. Also, also, guavas are small trees/ bushes and take 3 to 6 years to fruit. 😊 And yes, I kept coming back to this comment the vidoe progressed.

[@growithjessie]

it was extra hot this summer so that totally makes sense

[@bekleedee]

Me who has watermelon in the fridge with dark seeds 😎 aww yes. And its summer. Its my time to grow my own watermelon. My daughter is gonna love this

[@growithjessie]

omg go grow them now!!! did your daughter end up liking it??

[@Namse21]

In tropical countries, like here in India… almost all seeds are black! Every watermelon you get will have almost all black seeds and some translucent ones here and there… unless you find seedless watermelons in some special store

[@growithjessie]

that is so insane, and so lucky. we breed a lot of seedless varieties here so it's actually really difficult to find a watermelon with the darker seeds

[@bloodlove93]

there's an unfortunate aspect to that you don't seem to recognize. have you considered why? i can simplify it to one word sadly. money aka economy, your society, that section of earth... well relativisticly speaking it's broke, and it's an obvious factor everywhere you look from a western perspective, mass bathing in a filthy af river, children forced to work everything from vendor jobs to illegal work, a large portion of most major cities outer citizens "jobs" being a sad and dangerous mockery of recycling via scavenging from trash heaps,innumerable scams including irl on the street like fake art, too much to list, but it boils down to basically being that it costs more to set up farms like this and run them including people out so they can't steal plants to grow , and it's a convenience factor sold to the indolent west, India etc has no time to be lazy and sloth like, or your economy is cooked and you're screwed,etc etc....but it usually boils down to money somehow.

[@JadonSchintu]

i am currently germinating my dark watermelon seed with wet paper towel in my container

[@sabre5807]

only seedless?!?! not in texas (: we have them everywhere, unfortunately i have some pollen issues and watermelon has been messing with me so i dont eat it anymore :/

[@braveeagle5586]

If you love growing melons, you'll definitely love growing loofah!

[@growithjessie]

omg. i want to find those seeds so badly!

[@ldshadowladyfans937]

I love you sooooooo much♡♡♡

[@growithjessie]

I LOVE U MORE

[@pancholuey]

Could you grow golden berries, please?

[@meo_helo7345]

try growing granadilla (c=variety of passion fruit/) i grew then at home in poland and they are just soooooo good

[@growithjessie]

i love granadilla!

[@elf-wizard]

the seedless watermelons in stores drive me crazy because they dont taste good either?? i have found tho usually international grocery stores usually have the seeded kinds, at least in my experience so its not impossible but much more difficult to get them with seeds normally

[@growithjessie]

i know!!!!!!! they literally are not sweet like the ones with the darker seeds

[@chillzen]

This was so satisfying! Just a casual 12 month wait in the middle - THE COMMITMENT

[@growithjessie]

THANK YOU

[@nolancampbell4451]

Your papayas make it? I have a sea of indoor papaya right now lol

[@growithjessie]

they are doing......ok......lmao

[@EronGobis]

Fun fact: you can eat water melon seeds (you still need to open it)

[@growithjessie]

i love that!! they wont grow in your tummy

[@littlejackal0207]

Damn I guess mu farmers just can’t be bothered… it’s so hard to find seedless watermelons in my supermarket

[@bloodlove93]

farmers market* not super farmers farm for flavor and profit markets source for convenience and cost reduction a farmer will care enough, they don't mind taking time to de seed it as they eat,they grew the damn thing, they have patience and prefer flavor.

[@JadonSchintu]

plus, cantaloupes and muskmelons are the same melon

[@miwwnaww]

the watermelons in iran all got those dark big black seeds 😅😅 you can’t find a seedless watermelon here

[@growithjessie]

love it!!!!!

[@ziggybender9125]

Sorry sister I gotta stop your video 2 mins and 33 seconds in to correct you based on my first time growing watermelons this year. I bought a seedless watermelon in June and it was delicious (triple crown I think was the variety), to my surprise it had 1 single mature dark seed. I planted it and started researching about growing watermelons, which led to me planting a sugar baby watermelon seed also to pollinate the sterile plant from the seedless watermelon. Sugar baby grew 3 watermelons so far, the plant from the seedless variety grows 6 at a time with 4 being harvested so far and every time one is harvested a new baby one will start growing to always have 6 growing at a time. To my surprise the fruits from the red fleshed seedless watermelon seed grew into yellow fleshed watermelons with lots of dark mature seeds, this lead to more research and I learned I had planted an F2 hybrid seed and played my hand at the genetic lottery and got lucky. Next year I'll be planting the F3 hybrid seeds I'm collecting out of these delicious yellow fleshed watermelons and trying my hand at the F3 generation genetic lottery. Happy growing but don't sleep on planting a mature seed found in a seedless watermelon if you like gambling on plants, I bought another watermelon of the same kind 2 weeks later and found another mature seed that I planted also and it only grew 1 tiny white and slightly yellow fleshed watermelon with a really soft rind (I'm still gonna plant the F3 seeds I took out of it to spin the wheel on the F3 genetic lottery and see what happens but the F2 generation was a dud).

[@growithjessie]

that is okay! thank you for your comment

[@CharlieFisterVen]

Kontrakt så god bananer

[@i.love.wonwoo]

i have a watermelon guava tree in my backyard

[@growithjessie]

OMG. lucky.

[@AnnoyedAstronaut]

Cucumbers are also melons

[@bloodlove93]

we literally have the cucamelon lol

[@0nŷx-weridcore]

Second

[@growithjessie]

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY

[@estherlow917]

if you accidentally breed a watermelon and a guava it would be pretty cool

[@corinnahuettner]

2:52 In germany, you can find both. Seedless und with seeds.

[@barbaracarrall3717]

Grow yellow, watermelon

[@growithjessie]

omg i don't know where to find those tho

[@barbaracarrall3717]

Dress grow a lot more watermelons

[@growithjessie]

hehehehe

[@markjust86]

Can I pay you to narrate my entiire life?

[@growithjessie]

i will do it for free hehehe

[@markjust86]

@@growithjessie when I saw that you had replied I walked right over to my phone, I sprinted in fact! 😂 Lol. It would be amazing if you did. I have learned a lot from your videos but the main reason I watch them is your amazing and unique narration. It's so bubbly and full of energy. I love it!! I have made about 20 videos to put on KZbin but I will never post them because I can't narrate them. I hate my voice on recordings and even more so when I am reading a script. I honestly think you are one of, if not the best at it that I have ever seen!