Mabry's Yellow Watermelon

Mabry's Yellow A 2016 Victory Seed Company Introduction 90 to 100 days — In 2014 we received an email from Mr. Charles Jeffers, Sr. in Georgia. He wrote, "I have a variety of yellow watermelon, never seen for sale, in my lifetime and I am 77 years old. The Mabry's and I want this variety of melon to be grown in the future."[1] We were intrigued! He continued, "It is round, up to 40 pounds, yellow-meated, and very good. The outside color is approximately the same as 'Blacktail Mountain.' The seeds date back to at least 1919."[1] We emailed back and told him that we would love to trial it.Since our growing season here on the farm shares similar conditions with that part of Georgia, the fruit matured in about the same number of days. We do not get summertime rain here so our plants were drip irrigated and were grown in a prime location in the field with both good fertility and for amount of sun received. And it paid off. The melons were large, averaging twenty-five pounds, with a thirty