Charentais Melon Seeds 

Common name: Charentais melon.
Scientific name: Cucumis melo.
Family: Cucurbitaceae.
Type: Horticultural.
Origin: Southern Asia.
Description: Variety of precocious cycle. The fruits are nearly spherical, half kg. about weight, smooth bark, white cream. The meat has a delicious sweet and very distinctive aromatic flavor and is orange. Requires heat.
Creeping and climbing herbaceous note.
Require a minimum temperature of 18 ° C to germinate, being 25 the ideal growth temperature.
Resistance: not resist the intense cold or frost. They require a warm climate.
Planting time: February to May.
Method of sowing: Sowing equidistant holes 130 cm. and placing 6-7 seeds / hole, burying the seeds about 3.4 cm.
Thinning plants leaving 3 / well when they have 4 leaves.
Plant spacing frame 130x130 cm.
Harvesting: From June to October.
Care: To win precocity, plants are pruned: 5 leaves, cut up the 2nd sheet, excel outbreaks resulting in 10 sheets.
Keep the ground free of weeds.
When watering try not to wet the leaves to keep the plant, so it is convenient to water furrow rot.
Soil Type: fertile, well-drained land.
Light: Full sun.
Watering: Watering frequently, preferably by grooves.
Trivia: It has a high water content and sugars, so it is especially popular in summer because it is so refreshing.