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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 30, 2012 10:28:42 GMT -5
Here's what the Curtis Showell Argyrosperma squash patch looked like a couple days ago. Five plants survived. That is more foliage than I have ever had before on this species of squash. No telling if they will produce viable seed before frost. If they do, it will be a first for my garden. I have another patch of different cultivars of mixta squash in a different field which were planted later. And since I like motley things, here is a close up of the leaves:
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Post by steev on Jul 30, 2012 18:35:38 GMT -5
That's a very attractive plant; looks rather like my squash plants while the wildfire was up-wind of the farm.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 1, 2012 18:39:32 GMT -5
Mickey Lee...Not a Showell Melon, but here's the photo anyway. Boy those squash look great. Attachments:
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Post by edwin on Aug 1, 2012 18:52:01 GMT -5
We have Guatemala Blue Banana. Unfortunately we don't have it segregated for seed.
Fortunately we can purchase it. If you still need some come the fall - let us know.
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Post by steev on Aug 2, 2012 21:30:36 GMT -5
Holly, that's a very interesting leaf; is the fruit good?
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 3, 2012 22:58:55 GMT -5
It's not here yet. I'll have to let you know. When I planted, I put two watermelons, separated by 2 any other type of melon, cuke or squash, followed by another watermelon. H20 H20 Zuke Zuke H20 H20 Honeydew Honeydew etc. I was thinking that this would make it easy to hand pollinate and it would, but as Leo pointed out. I haven't eaten any of these, so how do I know I want to? This is Anguria Janosik. I'm going to go over to our melon trial page and post photos. It's so weird 6 melons planted, translated to 4 melons to plant. 2 not doing anything and 2 going like they're planning to cover the county. Attachments:
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Post by raymondo on Aug 6, 2012 4:06:53 GMT -5
Was this watermelon from an Italian seed company? If so, I think the cultivar name is just Janosik because anguria is the Italian word for watermelon.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2012 10:48:36 GMT -5
Sigh.
Yes, you are right, that was an Italian H20. What was I thinking?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 1, 2012 19:36:51 GMT -5
The first fruits are showing up on the Curtis Showell Mixtas:
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 5, 2012 20:39:10 GMT -5
The Curtis Showell mixta squash were killed by frost. My landrace popcorn in the background. This was the entire harvest. My best harvest ever of Mixta squash!!! ;D I'll throw the fruit in my seed germination chamber and leave it for as long as possible. I'm guessing that the seeds are extremely immature, but I gotta at least try after all this effort. Looks like there may be some chlorophyll in the skin of the fruit.
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 5, 2012 21:41:18 GMT -5
Well, at least you got one. Those Curcurbita Ficifolia - Zucca Melon - I got leaves, leaves and leaves. This week it finally made a flower (I normally get frost 3-4 weeks from now....) pooh.
I guess I don't have a long enough season.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 5, 2012 22:33:11 GMT -5
haha, yeah at least you gave it a decent shot! I have a few immature squash as well. If i were to just leave them in the field do you think a seed or two could potentially mature and sprout next season? I got one mature Hopi Black (which i assume is a moschata). I believe i promised a few seeds to Dean and a woman in Longmont. But would you like a few seeds Joseph so you could attempt to cross it with something from your early moschata strain? It's a very large squash, and is reported to have nice tasty dark orange flesh. Something of the same shape and size would be awesome, but if it were bred to be early it would be better. A group photo (minus one Wild Pueblo that i already ate and photographed) More photos of the insides (when i eventually eat them) will come later.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 12, 2013 8:41:06 GMT -5
Finally!!! After years of trying unsuccessfully, there is a mixta squash maturing in my garden. Last winter during seed swaps, I was adamant that I really wanted mixta squash seed (preferably more northerly adapted varieties). I received quite a bit of seed, and planted it. There are currently 3 plants that have produced fruit. I am not uploading photos from 2 of the plants because it looks to me like they are maxima squash. Here is a photo of my first mixta squash! Perhaps I'll find it more distasteful than pepo squash.
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Post by raymondo on Sept 12, 2013 17:11:03 GMT -5
Nice one Joseph. A long neck too. I like the long necks.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 26, 2013 19:33:48 GMT -5
I ate the mixta squash for supper tonight. Taste was similar to a pepo squash, a bit stringy and watery for my liking. Light yellow colored flesh. Soft edible skin. Cooked slower than butternut in the same oven.
90% of the seeds were empty seed coats. So that left me 22 good seeds. Perhaps I'll try again next year. So far this has been a very difficult species to adapt to my garden.
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