You may visualize a watermelon with a green rind, bright crimson flesh, and black seeds (though some are seedless).
1 - Red Flesh
Around 1954, Charleston, South Carolina, invented this melon. Charleston Gray melons have bright red flesh, a sweet, crisp interior, an oblong form, and a green-gray rind.
2 - Charleston Gray
In 1963, Kansas State University created Crimson Sweet. It resists anthracnose and fusarium wilt. The Crimson Sweet rind has light green stripes and traditional green skin.
3 - Crimson Sweet
The 1969 Sugar Baby melon is 8-10 pounds and small. The personal-sized watermelon is ideal.
4 - Sugar Baby
This watermelon, bred by Glenn Drowns in Northern Idaho in the 1970s, is ideal for cooler temperature short-season producers yet can endure heat and humidity.
5 - Blacktail Mountain
Christensen crossed Hawksbury and Dixie Queen in 1950 to create this Montrose, Iowa, family treasure.
6 - Chris Cross
This cultivar tastes sweet, as its name implies! Many productive plants produce sugary, medium-round, striped fruits.
7 - Oh So Sweet
American gardeners got Russian watermelon via Seed Savers Exchange in 1991. Spherical 10-12-inch fruits with dark green rinds and delicious rich crimson flesh are produced.
8 - Small Shining Light
This seedless cultivar has sweet, crisp, ruby-red flesh. Seedless watermelons need seeded watermelon pollinators to produce fruit.
9 - Red Ruby Hybrid
Another 4-pound hybrid seedless watermelon. This watermelon is refreshing and small enough for a snack. Vigorous plants normally yield six fruits.
10 - Piccolo Hybrid
Taste test winner! The ideal little icebox for 6-8-pound fruits. Light green rind, deep red meat. Yet another seedless watermelon.
11 - Big Tasty Hybrid
Small, compact, portable fruits with dark green-black rinds and vivid crimson flesh are produced by this cultivar. Small oval fruits are deliciously sweet and juicy.
12 - Little Darling
The traditional rectangular Black Diamond watermelon has vivid red flesh with a superb texture and a smooth, dark greenish-black outer peel.
13 - Black Diamond
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