Check the temperature of your soil with a thermometer. It probably needs to be 80?FÂ90?F. This can be obtained with a heating mat or outside now in a black plastic pot.

Trim the sides of the seed except the pointed part of the seed . Pointed part has the embryo in it.
You may soak the seeds for few hours before sowing. Try this on few seeds.
First week of June is good time for planting tropical seeds.Most of them germinate. I have successfully germinated few tropical seeds using heating pad.If you do this keep the soil thoroughly wet.

chiman

Hi I checked the ideal temp for the plant and it shows 71 degrees. Thanks for all the ideas from Voilet 76 and Chiman. I will try them out.

Mine germinated like heck when the weather was warm, but then went downhill straightaway while nearby squash pplants (blue kuri for example) took off like rockets. The tinda didn't get larger, it developed a few sickly leaves and seemingly just evaporated away. It didn't develop a real root system either. Do these plants require extremely hot weather all the time? Is there some other trick to them?

Best - exop

exop,

Cultivation information for you:

Here is a link that might be useful: Growing Citrullus Vulgaris

I see that you guys are writing about tinda and there is not many people that know tinda squash, I have a distributing company in Arizona and we have a farm in northern Mexico, we carry tinda, maybe some of you people know a store that sells this kind of squash, because I have a market in LA for this kind of squash but its not too big so if anyone knows anything please let me know..