Odell's Large White Watermelon|Truelove Seeds
Citrullus lanatus
Odell's Large White Watermelon fruits are gigantic with sweet, pink, juicy flesh, light green skin, and white seeds (though not very many). The rinds are tender, almost as sweet as the flesh, and great for pickling.
While watermelons were first domesticated in Africa, this is one of few that are known to be a variety connected to a particular African American person, who in this case is an unnamed man who selected this variety during or before the 1840s on a plantation in Pomaria, SC. Our original seed came from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Theirs came from Rodger Winn whose wife Karen Metzes's family has stewarded this melon since 1880. TrueLove Seed's coworker Amirah Mitchell advocated for to include this variety at TrueLove Seeds farm this year.
Amirah will be growing this variety for our catalog at her new farm project, Sistah Seeds, among dozens of other seed crops important to Africans and African Americans in the diaspora.
Also known as White Stoney Mountain Watermelon.
Days to maturity: 90
Seeds per pack: 40-45
Germination rate: 97% on 12/12/2024
Citrullus lanatus
Odell's Large White Watermelon fruits are gigantic with sweet, pink, juicy flesh, light green skin, and white seeds (though not very many). The rinds are tender, almost as sweet as the flesh, and great for pickling.
While watermelons were first domesticated in Africa, this is one of few that are known to be a variety connected to a particular African American person, who in this case is an unnamed man who selected this variety during or before the 1840s on a plantation in Pomaria, SC. Our original seed came from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Theirs came from Rodger Winn whose wife Karen Metzes's family has stewarded this melon since 1880. TrueLove Seed's coworker Amirah Mitchell advocated for to include this variety at TrueLove Seeds farm this year.
Amirah will be growing this variety for our catalog at her new farm project, Sistah Seeds, among dozens of other seed crops important to Africans and African Americans in the diaspora.
Also known as White Stoney Mountain Watermelon.
Days to maturity: 90
Seeds per pack: 40-45
Germination rate: 97% on 12/12/2024