"Explosive melon" refers to the phenomenon of watermelon cracking in May 2011 in some places in Jiangsu Province, China. May 8, Zhenjiang City, Dantu District, Baoyan Town, has been full of melons of the size of the watermelon vines, not yet ripe one by one, "crazy" cracked open.

"Explosive melon" is the weather factors and watermelon growth characteristics **** with the results. Watermelon after a long period of drought, a large number of short-term absorption of water is easy to crack. Since this spring, Jiangsu drought is heavier, in the appearance of "cracked melon" before and after a few days, coinciding with the local rain, watermelon absorption of water prone to "cracked melon".