Watermelon and Cantaloupe
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (176457)
Boise, Idaho
June 21, 2025 6:48pm CST
For years I just picked a cantaloupe that looked good to me. No special way of seeing if it was ripe was available to me. Same with watermelon. Then I learned that you want to check where the vine and the cantaloupe come together. If it looks cracked off then it probably isn't ripe. Someone just came upon and cracked it off. But, if it looks like the cantaloupe fell of it's own accord then you have a ripened cantaloupe.
Now, I am just reading a new way to tell if a watermelon is ripe. You pick one with dark lines/stripes. If the dark lines are two fingers wide then it has developed enough that it is probably ripe. Those are adult fingers too. I had never read this before.
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@Ineeddentures (7217)
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22 Jun
Cantaloupe , have heard of it.
But not sure I would know it wasn't a melon.
I let Yvonne deal with such matters and I eat them when they are served up with ice cream
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@celticeagle (176457)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jun
@Ineeddentures ........that's for sure. That and sherbet.
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@Ineeddentures (7217)
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22 Jun
@celticeagle ice cream is a dream with most things .
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@DaddyEvil (152100)
• United States
22 Jun
You should be able to smell a cantaloupe if it's ripe. And if you look all the way around a watermelon, you should find the part that was laying on the ground. It will be yellow. The darker yellow it is and the wider the yellow spot is, the riper the watermelon is.
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@celticeagle (176457)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jun
I rarely see one with any yellow on it that I remember. Interesting.
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@celticeagle (176457)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jun
@DaddyEvil .......Oh, yes. Now that I see the Pic I recall seeing. I haven't shopped in so long in store. I buy the tubs online and add a note to please choose the reddest.
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@DaddyEvil (152100)
• United States
22 Jun
@celticeagle All the watermelons I normally see have a yellow stripe on them.
I wrote that and then remembered Pretty brought home another watermelon yesterday so I took a picture to show you.
Photo is mine.
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@celticeagle (176457)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jun
That's how I usually do it too. But then I read this other way.
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@jstory07 (144830)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22 Jun
@celticeagle I am going to use those ways.
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@LindaOHio (192981)
• United States
22 Jun
I always picked a perfectly ripe cantaloupe by smelling where it was attached to the vine. If it smells green, nope...if it smells like cantaloupe, yep.
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@celticeagle (176457)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jun
Yes, I look at it and if it has three certain colors ,and wasn't snipped at vine then it's good. Smells ripe too.
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