{"id":2126,"date":"2014-03-03T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2014-03-04T00:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:16:48","slug":"watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon &#8211; Japanese Suika white flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Suika watermelon &#8211; this is just such a nice melon to grow and eat. Even though eating white melon flesh seems odd if you are used to the bright red watermelons &#8211;\u00a0this melon is very juicy and flavourful and is hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh\/watermelon01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"watermelon01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-600x450.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2128\" alt=\"watermelon01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-363x272.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01-462x346.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon01.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has fairly small vines that are easy to grow and they produce fruit well that ripen up quite quickly compared to a lot of other melons.<\/p>\n<p>They like full sun and plenty of manure and water and space to sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>The fruit are about up to 30cm diameter and mostly perfectly round. The colour changes as they ripen and the vine snub dies back so you know it&#8217;s ready to eat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh\/watermelon02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"watermelon02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-600x450.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2129\" alt=\"watermelon02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-363x272.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02-462x346.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon02.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They have quite a thin skin and you can eat right up to the inside within about 2mm of the surface. I have eaten small chunks of it accidentally and tbh it does not taste too bad either.<\/p>\n<p>They sound like a container of water when you drop them ( accidentally) and will break open easily so you do need to handle them carefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh\/watermelon05\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391766667&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00097847358121331&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"watermelon05\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-450x600.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2133\" alt=\"watermelon05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-363x484.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05-462x616.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon05.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2132\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/watermelon-japanese-suika-white-flesh\/watermelon04\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391766681&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0026109660574413&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"watermelon04\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-600x450.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2132\" alt=\"watermelon04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-363x272.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04-462x346.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon04.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Suika watermelon &#8211; this is just such a nice melon to grow and eat. Even though eating white melon flesh seems odd if you are used to the bright red watermelons &#8211;\u00a0this melon is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/watermelon03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-yi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}