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It is so they can hide from the people who come in and steal the watermelons without paying for them.

Funny story actually. before I started working my boss told me there was a group of kids who would come every night and steal a lot of melons. Our boss figured it out by tire tracks and by the plethora of missing watermelons. He hid out in the field one night with a shotgun and shot it up into the air when they walked right past him. The kids were screaming please don't kill me while they ran back to their truck. Needless to say, they never stole another watermelon.

I caught this short redhead kid from my high school stealing a watermelon during the day one time. I didn't do anything about it, just thought it was funny watching him run across the field as fast as he could with his stumpy legs.

Seedless.

There are watermelons with a yellow heart instead of a pink heart. I have never actually seen one in person, but we've had customers ask for it before. My boss says they taste the same, but might have a hint of honeyish taste. This could be placebo because it is yellow, though.

Also, I work for a small business that just sells locally. There is a company that sells to Wal-Mart that cheated my boss with fraudulent checks ten years ago when they were first starting. No thought is put into the watermelons grown and picked for this company. The watermelons you buy at Wal-Mart are terrible compared to the quality we grow. This "big scale" company has knocked off a lot of local people and forced them to quit selling and lose their jobs.

Some watermelon brands aren't as sweet as others. Crimsons do not last as long, but are sweeter. Starbrights are better quality with a stronger outer shell, but do not taste as good. On the watermelon plant, there is a really small vine that turns brown when a watermelon is near ripe or ripe. However, I have picked enough watermelons to the point where I can tap on it and listen to see if it is ripe or not. If it reverberates a lot, it isn't ripe. However, if it sounds more "dead" it is usually ripe. It's really hard to explain through type. I also think when you refrigerate a watermelon it changes the sound so it is even harder to tell.

Sorry I didn't clear up the question so well. Seedless watermelons are usually extremely sweet and tasty, just go with those if you are unsure. They are smaller though. I can guarantee if you ever end up with a watermelon I picked, it will be ripe! Haha. Usually watermelons that are sold to big stores are picked carelessly, so you aren't getting the great quality that is out there.

I have hundreds of stories. I remember the first year I worked there, we had this one 45 year old person who works at a local factory and on off days he helps out in the fields. He's somewhat of a loser in life, but a nice and funny guy. There was a rotten cantaloupe on the ground, and he stuck his whole fist in the cantaloupe saying "This is how I fist my wife." He then proceeded to take all the juices out and put his fingers right by his nose and took a loud whiff of it.

Another funny story is we were all loading cantaloupes on a truck for this vendor. We had a huge ass assembly line going - one person would pick it from the wagon, toss it to someone else, who tossed it to someone else, who tossed it to someone else, and finally he would toss it to the kid loading the truck. Well we were moving as fast as we could, without realizing the kid loading couldn't keep up. He took at least 5 cantaloupes off the chest like a champ before we were like - oh shit man, sorry.

I also work with some really cool high school kids who moved from the Philippians when they were young. They're always pretty funny and have some interesting things to say.