An opinion is about all that can be tendered here. Mellon plants know the extent to which they can produce fruit. If they start one good mellon, and the conditions are good they will produce more. (there may be many blooms) If conditions are not to their liking they may sacrifice all but one mellon to make sure they succeed with that one. Pond muck is usually very fine silty soil particles. It may need courser sand, and possibly organic material in it for best growth. The organisms in the soil (and spores from the pond) respond well to pond water because that is "home" to them. The soil may actually need fertilizer to perform well. The cukes are ripe just as they begin to turn yellow, or 2 days before that. Same rationale as above, but added to that is the fact that the big end little end factor, indicates to me that they might have suffered from the late planting. Plants respond to olength of day temp, and length of time in the ground. Internal clocks are not adjustable. If the late planting allowed the plants to "believe" the days were already to short and getting shorter, they might have "decided" to finish what ever fruit they had made to that point. Were it my soil, I would mix in some green manure, maybe 2 " of non treated grass clippings, plus maybe 1.5 cu/yds of mature compost 2 cubic yards of course sand, and work toward getting it blacker. Jim
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