Navajo Yellow Melon (Heirloom 85 Days)

Excellent melon

I grew these this year in Tulsa, OK and harvested my first two melons today. Seeds were planted at the beginning of May. This melon is thriving in our July heatwave and has done very well with temperatures over 100 for multiple days. One hill of four plants has produced about 8 large melons. The melons weigh 8-10lbs and about a foot long. The flesh is firm and sweet, but not overly so. It has a bit of a nutty flavor as well. The melons are ripe when their skin has changed from green to mottled yellow/cream color, the closet tendril to the stem dries, and they should sound hollow when tapped. If you let them stay on vine a bit longer, they will start to crack at the blossom end. This is a smooth-skinned melon, no netting. I intentionally kept mine on vine until the blossom end had a very small split to make sure they were fully ripe, since the only info I could find was generic and not actually for this variety. Also, of the first two, only of them had a typical muskmelon perfume where the other didn't. Hopefully that helps others growing it.