Grafted Melon Perseus F1

It's easier than you think to grow your own melons, and so satisfying!
Just £9.99
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Key Features

  • Stunning melons with green striped skins and wonderful juicy bright orange flesh.
  • Grafted to produce bigger and better crops earlier and over a long season in a greenhouse or outdoors.
  • Heavy crops or delicious fresh melons, which can weigh up to 750g each!
  • Much improved disease resistance, as the rootstock is a very tough and strong variety.
  • Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting and growing to 30cm (1ft) tall and spreading 2m (6½ft).
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Description

‘Perseus’ produces striking, round fruits that have attractive orange tinged, heavily textured pale green skin with dark green stripes and wonderful bright orange flesh that can weigh up to 750g!

Whether growing in a greenhouse or outdoors in a sheltered spot, ‘Perseus’ will need plenty of room to spread out, and the satisfaction of growing your own melons is enormous.

There are so many benefits to grafted melons, in particular that each plant can produce much, much more fruit and the melons will begin cropping earlier in the spring and keep producing later into autumn than other varieties.

Excellent resistance to pests and disease make grafted melons so easy to grow even if you have no experience, these will thrive to provide you with an plenty of fresh, tasty melons. Ideally suited for growing outside or in a greenhouse.

Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting and growing to 30cm (1ft) tall and spreading 2m (6½ft).

Care Information

Growing Melons

  • Melons are best grown in a growbag in a greenhouse or outdoors, with 2 plants per bag.
  • If growing in soil, cover the soil with mulch so that the growing fruits don’t touch the soil.
  • The soil should be well drained and humus rich.
  • Plant melons 1m (3ft) apart and, if outdoors, choose a spot in full sun and sheltered from wind.
  • When flowers appear, select 4-6 female flowers that you want to become melons and hand pollinate them by placing a male flower inside each female. The male flowers are those with a swelling at the base.

Harvest

  • Melons are ready to harvest once you notice their sweet smell and cracks begin to appear near the stems.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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1. If you're not totally happy with your order, return it within 30 days and we'll replace or refund in full!
2. Should any hardy plant fail to thrive thereafter, we'll replace free of charge - you just pay the P&P
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