Indoor Watermelon.

Originally Posted by smokesumb!tch

bout tree fiddy

I ain't gonna gid you no tree fiddy!

Keeping the vines confined to a reasonable size would be probelmatic at best. All curcurbits (squash, gourds, cucumber and melons) require a large area for the vines to spread. A single watermelon plant could require as much as 100-600 sq. ft. of growing area so some type of trellising would be in order. I've seen people casually plant watermelons near their other veggies only to have the melons dominate the garden later on.

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

Keeping the vines confined to a reasonable size would be probelmatic at best. All curcurbits (squash, gourds, cucumber and melons) require a large area for the vines to spread. A single watermelon plant could require as much as 100-600 sq. ft. of growing area so some type of trellising would be in order. I've seen people casually plant watermelons near their other veggies only to have the melons dominate the garden later on.

My youngest daughter is just now finding this out. She planted 8 plants 8 inches apart instead of 8 feet apart as stated on the package. This melon patch is getting huge and is covering about 56 sq ft.

Yeah I put them about a foot apart(4 plants) and it has deff. taken over, but the pumkin is about to whoop its ass.

how did this turn out? i'm about to plant a couple sugar baby watermelons, supposedly require less space... cant believe someone else already did this...

Same here I wanna try growing some watermelons inside. I'm curious if they do require 12/12 to flower or not. I would love to try to grow them in hydro.

for space considerations...you can get a "bush" variety of melons.

I hope you get some melons! But isn't it counter productive to grow something in equipment you're trying to keep clean and pest free? I dont really know anything about indoors, I'm just wondering.