%0 Journal Article %A ZHANG Ruowei %A LI Ken %A WU Yunpeng %A LIU Yi %A and PENG Dongxiu %A %T A New Oriental Melon Cultivar‘Huatian 1’ %D 2021 %R 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2021-0824 %J Acta Horticulturae Sinica %P 2871-2872 %V 48 %N S2 %X A new oriental melon cultivar‘Huatian 1’is developed by crossing BL-8 as female and HTB as male parent. The plant has healthy growth,fruit-setting is easy at lower-temperature period. It can bear fruit from the secondary or sub-secondary vine and get 4–5 fruits per plant. The fruit-shape is pyriform. The average weight of single fruit is about 550 g. The fruit developing period is about 26 days. The skin is golden yellow with dark-green spots when it ripe. The flesh is white-green and the soluble solids content is above 15.0%. It has crisp flesh,good taste. The average yield is 42 200 kg ∙ hm-2. %U https://www.ahs.ac.cn/EN/10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2021-0824