[Elmarto]

Hi all,

I have a watermelon in a pot in the greenhouse, it has produced one female flower with the embryo fruit behind, so yesterday I took a male flower and tried hand pollinating. Today the female flower is not opening, does anyone know if this is sucessful pollination? There are other male flowers are open this morning.

I'm sure time will tell, I'm quite excited as the seeds only were 29p from lidl.

[JayG]

Hard to be sure, because as with all cucurbits the flowers are short lived anyway, and the female stigmas discolour and start to shrivel whether pollinated or not (once that happens the flower will not be receptive to pollen, although nothing to stop you trying again since you've got spare male flowers at the moment.)

Good luck!