FUNNY F-1 HYBRID

[canadamike]

There is a small squash plant growing at the edge of the leaf cover my big cross, I saw it yesterday. The plant is small, the other is kind of taking over, so I will curtail it.

The pattern is interesting, and I never saw one like it. I wonder if any of you has seen such a color pattern on an edible pepo before.

The mother is Sweet Dumpling for sure, the father is probably a yellow zucchini, as I don't recall having any other pepo than that and Thelma Sanders, but the big cross is definitely Thelma-ish, and it sure looks like a probable yellow zuc cross, but then again bees travel.....

[Jim]

cool find.

[flowerpower]

Cool ! There are bicoloured pear gourds with the same pattern.

[canadamike]

I know, but I have never seen it in an edible one. I wonder why mind you.....

[flowerpower]

No, it looks like a yellow summer squash could be the daddy. So are you going to pick it small or let it get big?

[canadamike]

It will go to seeds my dear. Although the zukes harvest is far from proverbial as usual, I have enough plants to fill my needs and the restaurant's. This one will become an segregation toy!!

I am thinking of sending both squash hybrid's seeds to France so they could be grown this winter in the Lunéville greenhouse...

[lieven]

Zephyr F1 is a zucchini with exactly that bicolor pattern. Perfectly edible, of course.

[canadamike]

Thanks for the info my friend.