My Squash

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Here is the latest update for my squash:


Squash, Hopi White


Squash, Wild Pueblo (with precocious yellow gene)


Squash, Wild Pueblo (with precocious yellow gene)


Squash, Wild Pueblo


Squash, Wild Pueblo

same squash from before, but with darker orange color:


Squash, Wild Pueblo


Squash, Wild Pueblo

[raymondo]

That Wild Pueblo is a nice looking squash.

[floricole]

very nice squash keen101

I did 20 species this year but as I broke my ankle end of May, (sowing time here in Quebec) I deceided to grow them in 2 gal pots. They did produce but all in miniature size. My biggest is 4'' diameter.

I did hand pollinate them. Do you think that if I use those seds next year they will do regular squash or they will be smaller?

[steev]

Unless the seeds are undersized, lacking reserves so that they grow more slowly, they should produce regularly.

[floricole]

sorry french link but I think you will get the info there




Cucurbita mixta Hopi black green desription
cucurbitophile.fr/var/3022/var.php

[floricole]

Aug 20, 2012 20:08:59 GMT -5 steev said:

Unless the seeds are undersized, lacking reserves so that they grow more slowly, they should produce regularly.

thanks

[bunkie]

great thread of beautiful squash pics!!! well done!

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

I think i learned something new about squash this season. Apparently the squash fruit shrivel up and die if they grow in partial shade. From my observations there were a bunch on the one Hopi Black that all shrivelled up and died, and two Hopi Whites as well. It's something to keep in mind for next year. If you want an abundance of squash fruit, then plant them in full sun. On another note though, i have 1 Hopi Black fruit growing fast today (looks like it's already been pollinated as well). This is on a Hopi Black that is growing in full sun. I have high hopes that it will be able to produce a small fruit before winter comes knocking, but it better get moving.

[12540dumont]

I love squash. I really do. And this is one of my favorite.

Here's my tribute to Ken Ettlinger, surely a genius plant breeder. Here's the Ornamental Edibles of Long Island Seed, along with some of his dumplings & delicatas.

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[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Probably one of the last squash updates for the season, unless i get a chance to cut them open and compare them sometime. The cold is starting to set in, and a few of the vines are starting to turn yellow, but not all of them yet. The Hopi Black plants are still going strong, but i only expect to get the one fruit, which is growing FAST and is already the largest of all my squash, even larger than the large (pure white) Hopi White.


Wild Pueblo on the left (which is slightly warted, and some pillbug damage due to being on some decomposing grass), and the smaller of the two Hopi White fruits on the right. This Hopi White i suspect to have crossed with the Wild Pueblo because it is showing some strange characteristics consistent with the Wild Pueblo, but i didn't think such traits would show up until the next generation. It is showing a slightly pinkish hue on one side, a greenish hue on another side, some distinctive green striping on the bottom, and it may be starting to turn a slight greyish or bluish hue on the top.


Wild Pueblo on the left (which is slightly warted, and some pillbug damage due to being on some decomposing grass), and the smaller of the two Hopi White fruits on the right. This Hopi White i suspect to have crossed with the Wild Pueblo because it is showing some strange characteristics consistent with the Wild Pueblo, but i didn't think such traits would show up until the next generation. It is showing a slightly pinkish hue on one side, a greenish hue on another side, some distinctive green striping on the bottom, and it may be starting to turn a slight greyish or bluish hue on the top.


Hopi White Fruit (the larger one of the two)


Hopi White Fruit (the larger one of the two) (same one)


Wild Pueblo fruit, but with the suspected B gene (precocious yellow gene)


Wild Pueblo, this one with some cool white stripes on the sides.


Wild Pueblo, this one with some cool white stripes on the sides. (same one, but the back/top)


Hopi Black squash fruit. The only Hopi Black. Near the edge of my ecological limit, but large and reportedly with dark beta carotene flesh. (still growing FAST, trying to beat the nearing cold)

I suspect Wild Pueblo is an older variety of squash which is currently thought to be extinct, which may have been used to breed the variety called "lakota squash". according to reports...

the Lakota squash, a mid-1990's open-pollinated introduction developed at the University of Nebraska by Dr. D. P. Coyne. Dr. Coyne experimented with crosses and selections to assure more uniform pigmentation of this beautiful squash before making it available to the trade.

Lakota squash was developed from seeds obtained by the University from Nebraska's Fort Robinson, once a prairie Cavalry post, later an agricultural site, now a National Park. The variety it was derived from is no longer in cultivation. It had been grown by Native American peoples along the Missouri Valley for centuries before the arrival of Europeans to the continent. This indigenous squash was also cultivated by the troops stationed at Nebraska's Forts Atkinson and Robinson, and by early Nebraska settlers."

...Southern Utah isn't really all that far from Nebraska..

[oxbowfarm]

It definitely has very similar coloring to Lakota, but the Lakota I've grown was hubbard shaped instead of round and had more green striping originating from the blossom end. Your B gene squash is really beautiful, as are the rest of them. Don't forget to try and get a picture or two when you open them, the B gene is supposed to impart more carotene content.

[Darth Slater]

Keen can you send me some wild pueblo seeds?

[castanea]

My Hopi Black seems to look different. The furits are mostly hidden by monster leaves but I will have to see if I can get a photo.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Keen101 sent me seeds of this fruit.

Sept 11, 2012 23:19:15 GMT -5 keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) said:

Wild Pueblo on the left (which is slightly warted, and some pillbug damage due to being on some decomposing grass), and the smaller of the two Hopi White fruits on the right.


Hopi White Fruit (the larger one of the two) (same one)

Here is what one of the children looks like. It did not keep well. I cut some bad spots out before cooking.


And a closeup of the stem and seeds. I took this photo because I want to pay close attention to the peduncle and to the margin around the seeds. I thought that this variety was a maxima, but those seeds and that peduncle don't look very maxima-like to me.

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Aug 10, 2012 8:29:00 GMT -5 Darth Slater said:

Here are some of the sqaush I have out there, I got hit hard by the SVB and they killed the plant of the Blue Hubbard, I am not sure if I should bring it in or leave it out there.

My Cross of Rouge De Vif Entempes and Jarhdale.



Would you like to trade seed of your nice Rouge vif dÉtapes x Jarrahdale?
Maybe you are interested in some of our new squash and pumpkin breedings.
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