Watermelon 🍉 Plants Male and Female Flowers

Watermelon 🍉 plant female flower.

Watermelon 🍉 plant male flower.

A developing watermelon 🍉 

FLOWERING:  Determine the female flowers by 

looking for a small watermelon-shaped ovary under the flower. 

Male flower stems are straight and thin.

Watermelon vine with both male and female flowers.

There are more male flowers then female, and many

of the female flowers won't set fruit, 

often due to inadequate pollination.

Watermelon 🍉 developing attached under female flower.
Watermelons are insect-pollinated.

Some information gathered about watermelon 🍉 flowers

from the book "The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds" by 

Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough

 https://guestandgardening.blogspot.com/

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by Nell Sapp