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Scooty · June 29, 2017

The picture is a little blurry for me to say for sure, but I almost want to say that's a sugar spot - where an insect has punctured the rind and tried to get to the juice. If it is a sugar spot, the damage should be cosmetic only; some people even use them to distinguish which melon is the sweeter one of the batch, given it's been "chosen" by the bugs over the others. The black should be the sugars oozing out then the fruit sealing the puncture off.

The problem is that a sugar spot should be singular area, literally a spot, and the blurry pictures seem to show scarring widely across the fruit. Still it looks similar. Look up "watermelon sugar spots." There are more detailed pictures online and you can compare with what you have.

June 29, 2017	#3
Scooty Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Chicago-land & SO-cal Posts: 583	The picture is a little blurry for me to say for sure, but I almost want to say that's a sugar spot - where an insect has punctured the rind and tried to get to the juice. If it is a sugar spot, the damage should be cosmetic only; some people even use them to distinguish which melon is the sweeter one of the batch, given it's been "chosen" by the bugs over the others. The black should be the sugars oozing out then the fruit sealing the puncture off. The problem is that a sugar spot should be singular area, literally a spot, and the blurry pictures seem to show scarring widely across the fruit. Still it looks similar. Look up "watermelon sugar spots." There are more detailed pictures online and you can compare with what you have. Last edited by Scooty; June 29, 2017 at 01:06 AM.