PlantFiles: Cantaloupe
Cucumis melo 'Rocky Ford Green Flesh'

When weather conditions are right, this variety produces some of the best tasting canteloupes I have ever eaten. Like a lot of the open pollinated varieties, though, it is somewhat less consistent than the newer hybrids. If you get a little too much rain a the wrong time or not hot enough weather when the fruit are ripening, the flavor really suffers.

Vines grew very well here and produced 14 melons. Flavor was very good. First time I ever grew or ate a green fleshed canteloupe.

Several years ago , we had a small garden in Lancaster, Texas. We planted some cantaloupe seeds, not really knowing anything about growing them. They grew very well, and when they became ripe, we harvested them. They were the best tasting cantaloupe we had ever eaten. We were surprised at the green flesh. We have been unable to find them in the grocery stores. We bought some Rocky Ford today, but they were orange fleshed when we cut into them. They were good ,but not like our home grown ones we had back then. Are the green flesh Rocky Ford being marketed around Dallas? Lancaster is just a few miles south of Dallas. We are not gardners now since our backyard is so shady. Thank you so much!

The best of the open pollinated green fleshed cantaloupes that I have tried. Medium fruit about 5 inches in diameter and has the sweet spicey flavor associated with nutmeg types.