Hale’s Best Jumbo Cantaloupe is an OPEN-POLLINATED HEIRLOOM. 85 days. Hale’s Best Jumbo Cantaloupe is a popular variety combining flavor with earliness and reliability! Big oval, 5-6 lb melon has a thick, juicy, deep salmon flesh, small seed cavity and unforgettable sweet flavor and aroma. Hale’s Best Jumbo Cantaloupe has reasonably thin, firm, deep green rind with golden netting and a distinct stripe. Holds up well for shipping. Approximately 1,200 seeds per ounce or 19,200 seeds per pound.

Each Hale’s Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seed packet contains approximately 75 seeds. Available from SeedGro, an American brand offering only the best natural, non-GMO, open-pollinated, hybrid, and heirloom untreated seeds.

Size	1/16 oz

How to grow Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe?

Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe plants have sparse leaves and need a lot of sunshine and heat to mature their fruit. Their roots are delicate and require high nutrition and lots of water. For all that effort, you’ll be rewarded by the ripest, sweetest Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe you’ve ever tasted. Read the below guide 'How to Grow Cantaloupe"

Timing
It is essential to start Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seeds indoors or in a greenhouse mid to late April. Transplant at the end of May or first week of June, when the plants are 5 weeks old. Optimal soil temperature for germination: 20-25°C (68-77°F). Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seeds should sprout in 5-10 days.

Starting
Sow Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seeds ½” deep. Set transplants 24-36″ apart in rows 5-6′ apart.

Growing
Ideal pH: 6.0-6.8. Choose a warm, well-drained soil. Add dolomite lime and compost or well-rotted manure to the bed and ½-1 cup of complete organic fertilizer beneath each transplant. Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe melons need really warm growing conditions. Use black plastic mulch, cloches, or floating row covers. Success may improve in raised beds. Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe plants require 8-10 weeks of good, hot growing weather from the middle of June to the end of August. During that time, a melon vine must grow 5-9 leaves before starting to flower, then set 4 or more male flowers before making its first female flower, and then ripen its fruit before cool, damp weather sets in. Melons do not ripen off the vine. During the entire growing season, make sure to provide ample water.

Harvest
Fruit will ripen in late August to early September. Ripe Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe will easily detach from the vine when light finger pressure is applied to the stem.

Seed Info
In ideal conditions at least 60% of Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupeseeds will germinate. Usual seed life: 3 years. Per 100′ row: 60 seeds, per acre: 5.2M seeds.

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