Purple fleshed melon from a dream

My dreams are always vivid and real.
Last night I ate a melon that was wonderful!! The exterior was a dusty lavender mixed with orange, kind of sludgy looking, not pretty at all. But the flesh!! Oh my!!

The flesh was dense, a deep soft purple, and amazing flavored. I'm a cook, if I were trying to replicate that flavor I'd be using one of the fragrant cantaloupes like Ambrosia, plus a dark flavored plum, and deep purple concord grapes. That wouldn't be exactly it, but probably the closest I could come.

It was not overly sweet, I dislike fruit that is too sweet, sugar is not a flavor, it enhances flavors. The one I ate in my dream was one of several neat melons that were available for eating, but all the other people were eating the sticky sweet ones with no flavor, I got the whole purple one to myself!

Once again, I didn't manage to get us seeds! Dreams are bad that way. I'll try harder :D

Get breeding y'all, I want that purple melon again!! :D

When I'm browsing thread titles for something to read here I often spot one and think "that's gotta be Pearl's"  

Your description of that dream melon is absolutely delicious sounding!

I want some!

If I were to start breeding for this I would go for the color first, but where in the curcubit do we get purples?  Are curcubits even capable of producing anthocyanins ?

And I really should check , are the anthocyanins responsible for red and purple colors?  And are they exclusively responsible…..

Me too, Judith, me too! LOL

But continuing with the idea of breeding a purple fleshed melon, i just did a quick search for purple curcubit.  Watermelon was the only red .  I guess I could cross a watermelon with a white pumpkin and see what happens 🤔

But it will not be until next year at the earliest!

Any ideas of something more blue or purple than a watermelon?

It's not a melon, but it is edible, and has a purple skin. I don't know (I doubt) you could hybridize it. Have you ever heard of maypops or passion flower? Just an off the wall idea. They do remind me of tiny melons and they do grow on a vine.