Petit Gris de Rennes

created by Mela at 11.01.2021

Seed packet

Season Overview

Propagating

Planting

Harvest

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F

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J

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S

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Description

High-yielding cantaloupe melon with fruits between 500 and 800g, which ripen well even under some warm conditions. Fruit ripeness is given when cracks form around the fruit stalk and it can be easily detached. Sweet, orange flesh, early ripening and aromatic.

Non hybrid

Not frost resistant

Growing tips

Growing and planting melons need quite a lot of heat. It is best to let them tend on the ground and put the fruit on a wooden board or straw mulch. At the earliest unsprout after the 4th leaf. Then side shoots grown from the leaf axils, in turn, cut after the 3rd leaf.