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First, pick a watermelon that's flesh is dark green and dull, not shiny. A shiny watermelon, while pretty, won't be ripe yet. Step 2: Pick it up.
Watermelon is a summer staple, but choosing a perfectly ripe one takes skill. A grower explains the easiest way to pick the perfect watermelon.
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Watermelon is a sweet, commonly consumed fruit of summer, usually as fresh slices, diced in mixed fruit salads, or as juice. [53] [54] Watermelon juice can be blended with other fruit juices or made into wine. [55] The seeds have a nutty flavor and can be dried and roasted, or ground into flour. [9]
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By contrast, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. These seeds are produced by crossing diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants. Fruit development is triggered by pollination, so these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.
Picking out just the right watermelon can be tricky since there aren't many external signifiers, and you can't just give it a squeeze to see if it's softened, like you would with other fruits.
Frangula californica is a shrub 0.9–3.7 metres (3–12 ft) tall. [7] It is variable in form across subspecies.In favorable conditions the plant can develop into a small tree over 3.7 m (12 ft) tall. [3]