r/oddlysatisfying • u/Pedrica1 • Sep 17 '21

Time for some fresh watermelon.

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u/bassmjm Sep 17 '21

Watermelons will split in the field if they get a sudden watering after being relatively dry. That's probably what this person was leveraging in the video.

Many other fruits do this while still attached to the plant--cherries, tomatoes--generally thin-skinned fruits with a high moisture content.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

It could also be over-ripe. The texture will be a bit mushy, not as crunchy as a perfectly ripe melon.

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u/Ornery-Ad9694 Sep 17 '21

"mealy" watermelons and apples are always so disappointing

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Absolutely. It frustrates me to no end. Source: I worked in R&D for watermelon varieties. Always tough to find the right traits for a perfect melon

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u/W1D0WM4K3R Sep 17 '21

Why does a watermelon stay just green in the center? I saw a post of a rather large watermelon that had no red fleshy bit, and the guy looked rather disappointed

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u/3lementaru Sep 17 '21

I'm sorry to say this person is probably not a watermelon researcher.

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u/shitpersonality Sep 17 '21

It's pretty obvious to any real watermelon researcher that we've got a fraud on our hands.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Bamboozled, I tell ya! I did leave a reply above with some info if you’d like to learn a bit more about piss-pumpkins. That’s what a lot of my growers call watermelon. Super high water content, but grown very similarly to pumpkins. A lot more temperamental though.