Best Flavor Review by Farmer Frog
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This has by far the best flavor and is very juicy, perfect for making sorbet. Excellent yield..
(Posted on 12/9/09)
Great flavor Review by Unknown
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I grew these for the first time in 2009 and was very pleased. Great flavor and sweet, very aromatic. Easy to tell when ripe for they slip off the vine. Small in size but big on flavor. One of the best tasting melons out there..
(Posted on 1/14/10)
Succeptible to disease Review by Beerman
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Little to no resistance to powdery mildew and fungi. Worst in this regard to any cuccurbit I have grown..
(Posted on 8/21/10)
Excellent & Productive Review by Unknown
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This is a great melon! I've grown it for 2 years and it's very productive, about 8 melons per plant. I live near Charlotte, NC. It's delicious, too! The only problem is that it ripens from one day to the next and it will crack and the ants will eat it up before I can get to it. My favorite so far!.
(Posted on 11/23/09)
Sweetest melon ever! Review by HoneybeeNC
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I have grown this melon for three years and it's the sweetest type I've ever tasted. You need to check on them frequently. When ready, they split open, so get to them before the ants do. Pick them up and check the underside when they start to turn color and check for cracks - then you will know they are ready to pick..
(Posted on 8/1/10)
Sweetest I've ever tasted Review by White Deer
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Super sweet and delicious. Pay close attention to them as they crack when ripe, and will split wide open on the bottom (and fill up with ants and bugs) if you leave them in the field a day or two too long. I'll grow these on a trellis next year..
(Posted on 8/15/10)
Sweet petite Review by Sweet Lorretta
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I planted these late, but still managed to get a few ripe melons. They varied alot in size, despite all of them being picked ripe, or slipping. I didn't have problems with cracking, thankfully, because the ants do crawl all over them. I stuck a tomato tower in the middle and trained some vines up while others spilled on the ground. Didn't make much of a difference.It's August and I still have two on the vine, even though something has attacked the plants and are causing the ends to curl. They are still flowering and I have a few new fruit, so we will see if I get any more. The taste is heavenly and you will smell the melon aroma when they are ready to pick. Sizes varied from tennis ball size to softball to small muskmelon..
(Posted on 8/27/10)
Major Disappointment Review by KansasCrude
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After reading the review my mouth was literally watering for this melon....Great out of the gate, profilic set, nice size for a couple to share, first to mature of the 3 melon varieties I planted. It stops there!
These were the most flavorless melons I have ever eaten. I let then turn as yellow as possible, left them on the vine till they slipped. I experimented with all levels of ripeness and couldn't believe how bland they were. Eventually we just took them directly to the compost bin cause no one was interested in eating them.
What a BUMMER! 2010 seed and crop year.
(Posted on 11/28/10)
Didn't do well for me. Review by Amanda
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I grew 4 plants up a chain link fence and only got two melons. One fell off on its own and cracked when it hit the ground and the ants got to it before I did. The next one I just barely jostled and it also went splat in the dirt. It did smell so good I was tempted to pick the shards of broken melon out of the dirt and wash them off.
I'm sure this is a delicious melon if anyone manages to get any to the house in one piece. I guess trellising them was a bad idea, but I thought it would work with such a small melon.
Not sure how to explain my poor fruit set. I wonder if my climate is too hot for it. I live in South Central Texas and this variety is from France. The plant seemed to struggle in the heat and drought this past summer. Next time I'm seeking out a tougher melon variety that's adapted to hot climates and doesn't crack if you look at it the wrong way..
(Posted on 12/22/10)
Nice melon, if you like baked squash Review by Levente
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This melon was quite productive for me, several melons per plant, size not bad, disease was not too bad either though I sprayed a few times with a fungicide-mix. The smell was nice. And the taste as well, especially the taste of the first melons in the season was pleasant. But after a few days I started to sense a sort of "baked squash" taste (I can not describe it more precisely) in these melons and with time it was overpowering. I simply could not eat more of this melon due to this strong "after-taste". Oddly enough, the smell was nice all the time..
(Posted on 1/1/11)
i got lucky Review by old husher
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2010 was a really hot summer in cleveland, and these melons loved the black plastic upon which they set. if i was lucky enough to pick a perfectly ripe charentais, then it really was the greatest melon ever, but picking these at their perfect ripeness before they split was very difficult. lotsa mildew killed these vines, but not until some decent yields were picked. not sure if the warms temps will return to cleveland next year..
(Posted on 1/8/11)
Absolutey Fantastic! Review by Claire
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Despite the fact that moisture and rainfall lessen a melon's sweetness and that we had tons of rain during their maturing phase- they were still SO SO sweet. In fact, these were maybe the sweetest melons I've ever had- at least in recent memory. They were hardy and prolific and the absolute perfect size for breakfast for one (or two). They do have a unique taste (it's very very good) at first tasting just like a very sweet cantaloupe but then having a mixture of something a bit perfumey and something else I can't quite describe. .
(Posted on 2/2/11)
Very disappointed Review by DavidC
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They did not grow well for me. The fruits were very small, like the size of oranges. The flavor was very bland; a major disappointment..
(Posted on 7/25/11)
Best. Melon. Ever. Review by Robyn
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They do have a tendency to split and the ants probably got as many of them as I did. Probably one gets better at prediction with time. But they're the sweetest and most meltingly tender melons I've ever had. The scent is incredible and the color is beautiful too.
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(Posted on 8/1/11)
Not for the heat Review by Roy in South LA
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Good melon but does not tolerate heat. We started them in March when days were about 65 degrees and nights in the 50s or 40. Grew very fast. Set first fruit about 90 days after germination and soon had lots of little melons. Picked one ripe one in about lay May or early April and it was wonderful. Within the week, days were in the high 90s and nights in the 80s and every melon split wide open long before it was ripe. By mid-summer they were cracking almost totally in half before they even began to turn colors. It's from France, so no wonder it just can't handle the heat..
(Posted on 8/9/11)
great favor Review by Alice
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Here in Utah the spring of 2011 was very long so some of the seed did not mature as they should have but the seed that did survive I planted and I am very pleased with the favor and the fragrance is wonderful! I will plant these again and hope the weather is better next year. I gave a taste sample to one of my friends that I work with and he gave me $2 for a whole melon. It was that good!.
(Posted on 8/25/11)
Hit and Miss Review by foodgardenkitchen
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We have had hit and miss success (mostly miss) with trying to grow this melon in zone 7 North Carolina. Not quite sure what the problem is, but we've attempted to grow it three years in a row and only got fruits one year (last year, in 2010). I will say the vines last year produced VERY tasty melons, but certainly weren't prolific..
(Posted on 8/27/11)
Charentais Mystery Review by cinderella
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Indoor seedlings came up well, most survived transplanting, then it seemed to stall, so in August all tendrils, flowers and no fruit. Other melons fine. Late August in Colorado, so that's it for this year with this melon..
(Posted on 8/29/11)
Excellent taste, nothing beats it Review by Anthony
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Often cited as the tastiest melon, and for good reason. Super sweet melon. Superb flavor. Extremely fragrant when ripe. You can smell the melon from several yards away. Thin rind gives it a small shelf life. Small melon is convenient to cut in half and eat with a spoon. Grown in early spring on mulched mounds, 5ft spacing, two plants per mound. Fragrance makes them an easy target for raccoon and opossums. Three to five melons harvest per vine. They have a tendency to crack if left on the vine for too long. Harvest as soon as it slips from the vine. Texture improves if melon is allowed to sit a few days after harvest..
(Posted on 1/29/12)
