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Picture please? Include the first tendril in the photo if you can.

I have never seen a Crimson Sweet green and without stripes.
 
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There is actually three of them, still have good ones growing, cut out bad ones occasionally.
 

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Ok, it has stripes just not prominent ones. I'd say it isn't ripe and wait until you see that first tendril turn brown before picking it.
 
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Didn't know if it would be detrimental to rest of them, thank you. I picked one Friday of last week, tendril was brown and brittle but there was only red in a clover shape and the rest was white.
 

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That doesn't look like any Crimson Sweet watermelon I've ever grown. They start round and stay round and are clearly striped. That one is oblong and somewhat striped on the right side. What do the other melons look like? There shouldn't be any "different" melons on the vine.

 

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That doesn't look like any Crimson Sweet watermelon I've ever grown. They start round and stay round and are clearly striped. That one is oblong and somewhat striped on the right side. What do the other melons look like? There shouldn't be any "different" melons on the vine.

That's a Charleston gray watermelon, im pretty sure.
 

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