"Germinate: 04 – 10 Days - Matures: 80 – 90 Days After Transplanting"
Hale's Best Jumbo is a productive heirloom cantaloupe with large, oval fruit weighing 3–5 pounds. Discovered by I.D. Hale in 1923, it features a yellow-green rind with coarse netting and thick, sweet, salmon-orange flesh. Reliable for home gardeners, this drought-resistant, open-pollinated variety needs 18–24-inch spacing and thrives in full sun. It is non-GMO.
Genus: Cucumis. Type: Open-Pollinated, non-GMO, Heirloom. Origin: Originated in the early 1920s near Brawley, California, discovered in a Japanese market gardener's field.
