If you can’t get rice husks use sawdust or wood chips. Also citrus and banana peels can be used for the fruit scraps.

Fermented fruit maybe hard to find unless you have a moonshiner friend but you can use feed grade molasses.

Not sure what type of fertilizer he used but I would go with worm or centipede castings with a little mycorrhizal fungi. A little azomite rock dust won’t hurt either.

Definitely water with the composed tea every 2 weeks. You can use this method for almost anything.

I love how he gives each watermelon a cute little nest.I grow melons in a 15 gallon buckets with a handfull of leaf compost from the year before a cup of milloganite, dirt from the field next door free, 4 slices of dried out bread I get ree from the bakery.

a few worms free  hand full of wood chips  free  1 cup chicken poop fre from a farm.

Mix it all together really well and have drain holes in the bottom of the buckets. Works amazing. I get 4 cantaloupe per bucket and grow 2 large watermelon per bucket . I never use the same dirt twice for mellons.

I just dump it in a pile and use it 2 years later for something else like peppers.you got the expertise, dominate the entire process and, in the end, to eat what you planted is wonderful.I could taste the goodness and love you put into those babies, definitely going to do this next year. so much for sharing and I subscribed, liked and shared!!