<![CDATA[ABSTRACT Watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris Schard) is one of the fruits that are very popular Indonesian society because it tastes sweet, and a lot of water content. Watermelon needs continue to increase while the results are still low. So it is necessary to increase the yield of watermelon. To improve the growth and yield of watermelon watermelon plant development at the start time of seeding. How to nursery and nursery media greatly influence the growth and yield of watermelon. For research that has been carried out from  1 December 2012 to 10February 2013 subdistrict located in Batang Kapas Puppies South Coastal District. In order to know the influence of various media seedling on growth and yield of watermelon seedlings and get a suitable media to the results of a watermelon. This research used Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting of 5 treatments and 5 replications. Garden soil, garden soil + river sand , rice husk ash + garden soil, garden soil + cow manure, river sand + soil + rice husk ash garden. Supervision starting at week 2, week 4, week 6 and week 8th after planting. Observation is the observed percentage of live seeds, the number of leaves (pieces), plant height (cm), weight of fruit crops (g). Data were analyzed using analysis of variance and LSD test continued at α level of 5 %. Results showed media soil + river sand is the best medium for the growth of watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris Schard). The results were analyzed with the following variance showed that the use of tangible media to be more influenced seedling crops including watermelon seed alive, number of leaves (pieces), plant height (cm), weight of fruit crops (g). From the results of the research in order to encourage the farmers to use the media in raising crops of watermelon seedlings as more economical .  ]]>
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