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It can only be guessed at using several methods. If it is still in the garden, the vine will turn brown and shrivel up when it get ripe. If it is in the grocery store, you thump it, and If it sounds more hollow than other watermelons, It's probably more ripe than they are. If you just have a watermelon by itself......you pretty much have to cut it open and see.

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Rockmelons are ripe when the stem they are attached by shrivels up. Also, they turn slightly yellow underneath. They develop a characteristic fruity odor.

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It is ripe if you slap it with the palm of your hand and it vibrates as if it is hollow. You can also pluck it and get the same responce from the melon.

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knock on the melon.How ripe it is depends on how high or low the pitch is.

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