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Post by bluelacedredhead on Aug 25, 2008 9:04:09 GMT -5
I only planted 7 seeds cuz the farms for sale. Out of those seven seeds, one did not germinate. The others are doing very well.
There are some very interesting offerings in the mix I must say.
I did take pics. I have yet to load them to photobucket..I'll do that tonight and post them.
Perhaps someone can help identify what they might be?? Some are familiar, but there are some wild ones, LOL
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Aug 25, 2008 22:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Aug 25, 2008 22:40:02 GMT -5
Flowerpower might be right Wendy. I have a cross of Sweet Dumpling ( a delicata that was zapped by gamma rays, causing mutations) with a zuke that looks just like that, but the tip is greenish while the rest is yellow. I have 2 very different crosses of SD, one is that delicata/zuke and the other is Thelma Sanders / SDumpling. They were both looking like the other parent and are reverting to some of the delicata characteristics as they get older.
My TS/SD was pure acorn shape until a couple of weeks ago, albeit more yellow than TS, now the stem end looks concave like a SD. The SD/ZUKE now has those ribs even though it is not getting much larger, it even looks stalled, the ribs are showing more and more.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Aug 25, 2008 22:43:39 GMT -5
Oh Mutants are such fun to watch develop aren't they?
Just imagine what would happen if I saved seed from this years mix of QB, Banana Squash, and Alan's Mixed Mutts...
But alas, I won't have even remotely close to the same amount of garden space next year so I don't think I'll bother. More's the pity, LOL
Unless Michel, you want some ;D
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Post by flowerpower on Aug 27, 2008 21:50:49 GMT -5
Blue's Squash HipGnosis White Pear Shape  |
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Post by flowerpower on Aug 27, 2008 22:12:02 GMT -5
Bunkie's Jumbo Banana  |
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Post by Alan on Aug 28, 2008 20:45:16 GMT -5
Nice pics blue, I really enjoy seeing picutres of all the re-combs. Blue, would you be willing to send me some seeds from the white pear cross. I have yet to see that in my fields and would love to have a sample for evaluation. Occasionally I find things similar to Zucchini in the fields and have been yanking them. Not sure if that's from a bee facilitated cross or it's just normal for pepos to favor that shape. I've also found some scallop types in the past.
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Post by flowerpower on Aug 29, 2008 5:33:12 GMT -5
Alan, any idea what the "white" parent might be on that pear cross?
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Post by Alan on Sept 1, 2008 21:55:26 GMT -5
My guess and hope would be either baby boo or else a white acorn, those would be my "favored" choices, though I guess it could possibly be a scalop squash, but the pollen would have had to have traveled a long ways to get to that patch of C. Pepo's.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 1, 2008 22:11:59 GMT -5
Alan, 2 years ago I have left scalloped summer squash mature and ended up with good tasting yellow fleshed squash. I wonder if you have tried that with a regular shaped zuke? What happens to them? Anybody tried?
I would like somebody more proficient in english that I am step in here, but I think the brits name marrows squashes that can be both summer and winter. This is my understanding, but »I can be wrong.
Can somebody help me here. If it is not the case, what is a marrow then, I don't know of a french equivalent.
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Post by flowerpower on Sept 2, 2008 5:44:08 GMT -5
I thought Marrow was grown as a summer squash only. Here is a link where they give a brief explanation. They mention picking it very small or letting it get overgrown & then stuffing it with meat. I have had zucchs until around December. But the pattypan, I had til May this past yr www.garden-centre.org/Marrow.htm |
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