Petit Gris de Rennes

Variety

Petit Gris de Rennes

created by Miriam D. at 18.02.2021

Season Overview

Propagating

Planting

Harvest

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Description

High-yielding melon with fruits between 500 and 800 g, which ripen well even in less 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.

F1 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.

Details

Seeding distance

50 cm

Row spacing

100 cm

Seeding depth

2 cm

Antagonistic Plants

Diseases

Downy mildew

Ascochyta blight

Powdery mildews

Pests

Leaf bugs

Nematodes

Land snails

Leaf-miner flies

Thrips

Aphids

Spider mites

White fly

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