2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Watermelon is an extremely favorite and beloved fruit vegetable in our country. There is almost no person who can resist a piece of juicy watermelon in the summer. There are several main varieties in Bulgaria, but a selection is being made for new ones, as foreign species are being imported and tested. Here are the varieties of watermelons:
Melon Stokes 647
Probably one of the earliest varieties of watermelon. Its fruits are small, with a thin rind. They are often surrounded by dark green stripes that merge with the main background. Thus, their tasty flesh is initially red, but has a yellow-orange hue, with a delicate, slightly fibrous texture.
Watermelon Marble 17
The fruits of this variety weigh up to 5 kg. each. The surface of the fruit is light green, with well-visible dark green spots and stripes. The watermelons themselves are moderately developed, with well-leaved main stems. The leaves have medium cut petioles. The edible part has high levels of sugar and is pink-red. Its structure is grainy and without veins. The seeds are large and tile red.
Watermelon Rositsa
This relatively new species for Bulgaria is superior to Marble 17 in terms of production of standard products. The fruits are again from medium to large, and the flesh is red, extremely grainy and very tasty.
Watermelon Sugar Baby
American variety, suitable mainly for early production. The fruits are small and spherical, with only the largest reaching 3-5 kg. The bark is thin and dark green. However, the taste of the variety is more than excellent.
Watermelon Peony
Also an early species that even surpasses the Sugar baby in standard fruit yield and early maturity. However, its fruits are quite large, again with a spherical appearance. The bark is medium thick and the meridian stripes are wide, curly and dark green. The flesh is tender and sweet, intensely red, with good taste.
Watermelon Boryana
The fruits of this variety of watermelon are spherical and quite large. Their bark is light green and the meridian lines are typically dark green. The edible part is mostly red.
Melon Crimson
This American variety is the most vigorously growing variety of watermelon. Its stems reach 3-4 meters, the leaves are large and the fruits are huge, weighing up to 8 kg. Their bark is light green, framed by dark green stripes. The edible, inner part is carmine red, tender, very tasty. The seeds are small, brown and black. This is the most common variety in our country.
Local yielding varieties are still widespread in different parts of the country. Such are Gulle, Pazardzhik blacks, Pleven blacks and Local improved.
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