Notes
Short-season icebox. Northern slot.
Cultivars / Cucurbits
Blacktail Mountain
Watermelon · Citrullus lanatus
DTM
72 d
97 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
24 in in-row
Density
0.5
plants / bed-ft
Yield
3.5
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$9.24
$3.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 70°F – 95°F (opt 85°F)
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 24 in
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.5
- Plants / 50 ft
- 25
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 72 d
- Holding
- 10 d
- Occupancy
- 97 d
- Multicut
- yes · 4 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 3.5
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 3.5 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.75 / $3.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.5 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 116.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.45 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.7 / 0.2 / 1.1 lb
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-30
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-26
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 17 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 30 seeds · 25 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $269.50 / $462.00
Companions
radish
Avoid
potato