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Melon or Cucumber Seedlings - Cant tell

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'd guess 1st is the melon
    I don't grow melons bot the foliage of the 2nd pic looks almost identical to the leaves on my cucumber

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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Thanks Pete

    I know which is which on this site as I uploaded links to melons and cucumbers
    Its identifying them in my conservatory thats the problem

    Thank you
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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    basically you can't, I have two bread cases of pumpkin/cucumber/courgette seedlings I can tell the cucumbers apart from the others only by the seed leaves, they are smoother and not hairy, but I have not grown any melons this year so I cannot say if melons have hairy seed leaves or not.
  • Jason millyJason milly Posts: 546
    I find the darker leaves are cucumber and lighter the leave is melons. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited May 2019
    NewBoy2 said:
    Thanks Pete

    I know which is which on this site as I uploaded links to melons and cucumbers
    Its identifying them in my conservatory thats the problem

    Thank you
    Why not post a pic of the seedlings in your conservatory, then you may get other suggestions.
    The 1st leaves and all other leaves on my cucumbers have serrated edges like the one in the 2nd pic

    PS don't know if it's of any help, but here's my cucumber


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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Skandi ...what is a bread case please ?    :*
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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    NewBoy2 said:
    Skandi ...what is a bread case please ?    :*
    One of these, useful for carrying lots of seedlings around in.

  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

    tak skal du have Skandi
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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    The cucumber and melon seedlings are in the ground now so I will either have melons hanging from the trellis or cucmbers  :#

    Thanks for your advice friends
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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Both cues and melons are growing well.

    3 of the 9 melon plants survived and 3 of the 6 cues are trucking on and starting to climb


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