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Next year I WILL try to graft watermelon onto a rootstock.   I'm handy with 
grafting and it might overcome some of the early season slowness watermelon 
vines show here in Massachusetts.  Of course I'll still have to have 
watermelon 
plants, 
because I'll have to watermelon vine to graft onto the rootstock.

One well-tried watermelon rootstock is the japanese-made hybrid squash 
Tetsukabuto.

"In 1956, Tetsukabuto, a commercial F1 hybrid of Cucurbita maxima x C. 
moschata. from Takii & Co., Ltd., Seed Growers, Hyota, Japan, yielded many 
5-pound 
oblate dark green squashes at Durham, N.H. that, when cooked, were rated very 
good. "
Charlie Paradise z6 Massachusetts