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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 27, 2012 14:44:27 GMT -5
Jaune gros de Paris because I got them for free at Baker Creek in MO and Bunkie says they are very tasty! Sweet Meat because they are Remy's favourite and I adore blue pumpkins/squash Old Fashioned Tennessee Vining Pumpkin from SESE which is no longer being offered? I tried them last year after moving in early July. I knew that I didn't have a long enough season between July 10 and October 15th to grow them, but some things you just have to try  |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 7, 2012 12:54:07 GMT -5
I planted out some of the squash several days ago. They seem to be doing well. Even despite that it's now raining and the temperature went down to 41 degrees F. I think it's supposed to go down to 37 tomorrow. I have a few other seedlings out there now (in peat pots) that also appear to be doing well, but I'm wondering if i should bring them in tonight. It's interesting to note that i have started to notice a few differences even in the seedling stage. Hopi Black appears to have a silver mottling on it's leaf. Wild Pueblo is very interesting because when it's first true leaf appeared instead of one leaf it has TWO. Hopi Black and Hopi White might also be growing a second leaf but it is taking them a lot longer for the second leaf to grow. Since the two leaves on Wild Pueblo are so large so early i am forced to wonder if it is going to be a vigorous grower.  Hopi Black  Wild Pueblo  Hopi White |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 7, 2012 13:25:57 GMT -5
Hopi Black appears to have a silver mottling on it's leaf. Thanks for photos! I adore looking at photos of people's gardens. I love the mottling that is so common on moschata squash leaves. In my garden maximas (on the right) grow faster than moschatas (in the center).  |
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Post by mayz on May 9, 2012 6:26:49 GMT -5
Cucurbita maxima
a lot of F2 Pink Jumbo Banana x Galeux d'Eysines
Cucurbita moschata
Yokohama and Sucrine du Berry I haven't grown these cultivars so I hope a sunny summer this year because the fresh and humid summer of belgium is not very good for moschata
a light frost is forecast in the morning of next sunday so i wait to plant the seedlings outside
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Post by steev on May 9, 2012 21:56:08 GMT -5
Nice new photo, joseph; very Brigham Young-ish. My sweetheart hated it when I shaved my upper lip like that; guess she missed the tickle.
Back to work! Winter squash this year:
Kakai
Double Dumpling
Kogiku
Lady Godiva
Magdalena Big Cheese
Guatemala Blue
Australian Butter
Jarradale
Blue Hubbard
Blue Kuri
Chirimen
Golden Hubbard
Lakota
Minnie's Apache Hubbard
Mayo Blusher
Muscade de Provence
Yoeme Segualca
Queensland blue
Red Eye
Red Kuri
Zapalo Plomo
Speckled Hound
Sweet Meat
Texas Indian Moschata
Uchiki Kuri
Sweet Potato Delicata
True Green Hubbard
Naples Long Holly
I know I should be growing out some of my Guatemala Blue F2 hybrids, but I want to weed out some of these from my wish list: next year!
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Post by potter on May 10, 2012 2:27:02 GMT -5
Gosh..your season is so much ahead of ours..  I'm only just starting to sow mine; Red Warty Thing Really Big Butternut F1 Triamble Georgia Candy Rooster Baby Green Hubbard Burgess Buttercup Volzhkaya Serelya 92 Sucrine du Berry Lunga di Napoli Zappalito Gem Squash Rolet North Faulkland Island...  ....I'm wondering about this one..has any of you grown it?..what do think of it? I'm getting bit squeezed with room this year and would not like to add this into plan if its not 'so nice'.. |
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Post by raymondo on May 10, 2012 2:31:29 GMT -5
Potter, I'll be interested to see your Triamble. I used to have a strain that produced lovely, very smooth three-lobed fruit. These days they all seem to have some ribbing on each lobe.
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Post by potter on May 10, 2012 2:59:32 GMT -5
Potter, I'll be interested to see your Triamble. I used to have a strain that produced lovely, very smooth three-lobed fruit. These days they all seem to have some ribbing on each lobe. I'll be interested to see them too.. ;D I've haven't grown triamble before, so I don't no idea what my aquired seed will produce...but I am going to do artificial pollination with them to save my own seeds and hopefully I'm able to supply you a photo in few months time. If the suppliers photo has any credit to what to expect..those in packet look quite ribbed to me. I know what you mean being 'three-lobed'..in all my squash book photos that is how they always look..if cut half..'like a three leaf clover'. |
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Post by nathan125 on May 10, 2012 10:49:05 GMT -5
delitica
bush buttercup
gold nugget
casper pumpkin (white)
yellow straightneck squash
my orange smoothie pumpkins croaked.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 16, 2012 13:08:02 GMT -5
I may have stumbled onto something, but maybe not. Anyway, i was searching last night on squash and came across a variety only referred to as "Zuni". The interesting thing about it is that it also has mottled leaves like Hopi Black. From what i gather, apparently mottled leaves are common in Moschata squash, but rare in Maxima. I am now curious to know if Hopi Black and "Zuni" might infact be the same variety. I've emailed the website of someone who claims to have grown it, so hopefully i will find out soon. Also, does anyone know if the mottling is an adaptation to desert climates? www.avant-gardening.com/newmexico.htmljhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/1/27.extractjhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/1/28.extract |
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Post by castanea on May 16, 2012 22:37:08 GMT -5
Australian Butter is one of my favourites - dense, sweet flesh and great colour, both inside and out. It has two attributes I don't like. It's almost too long for my season. It's a nail-biting ride to the finish (first frost). It's also more moist than I like, but that's just me. Other than that, it's excellent. I'm sure those growing it will enjoy it. My thoughts exactly. It's a very good squash, pretty too, although a little more moist than I prefer. It ripens in a normal season here but not in the last few years because our summers have been too cool. |
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Post by baby daddy on May 21, 2012 16:53:43 GMT -5
put in butter cup today, did a punkin for baking this fall, cant wait to try it.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 21, 2012 19:40:24 GMT -5
I have no winter squash in the ground yet, here is my tentative plan. C. pepo - Raymondo's Lady GodivaXThelma Sander's F2
- Thelma Sanders to backcross to it
- Kakai
- the eternal suffering Jack'olantern
- Delicata
- Winter Luxury
- Long Pie Pumpkin
- Algonquin Pumpkin
- Sugar Dumpling
- Rutger's Golden Acorn
C. maxima - Oxbow landrace
- Cha Cha F1
- Sunshine F1
- Sweet Meat Oregon Homestead
- Katy Stoke's Sugar Meat
- Crown Pumpkin
- Lower Salmon River
- Peñasco Cheese
- Amish Banana (thanks Gray!)
C. moschata - Joseph's Medium Landrace
- Nice butternut from market
- Quaker Pie
- Carrizo
- Honey Nut
- Upper Ground Sweet Potato
- JWS 6823 PMR F1 (butternut)
- Middle Rio Conchos
- Old Timey Pumpkin
- Long Island Cheese
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Post by 12540dumont on May 21, 2012 23:10:20 GMT -5
Ornamental Edible
Dollop
Double Dumpling
Ornamental Edible Golden Elf
Sweet Dumpling
Piacentina (no germination - so wah!)
Queensland Blue
Jarrandale
Marina di Chioggia
Zepplin Delicata
Candystick Delicata
Sweet Potato Delicata
Musque de Provence
Orange spaghetti & Regular Spaghetti
Zukes:
Tondo Chiarro di Nizza
Precoce d' Albenga
da Fiore
Genenovese
Romanesco (neener Ox)
Nano Verde di Miano
Serpented di Sicilia
Still not seeded:
Green Chestnut
Winter Luxury
Little Greenseed
Joseph's 4 x
Oregon Sweet Meat
Whangaparoa Crown
Burgess Buttercup
LI Butternut
I gotta get on those at the same time I start the rest of the melons and the next batch of corn.
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Post by raymondo on May 21, 2012 23:47:50 GMT -5
What! No Lunga di Napoli Holly?
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I'm only just starting to sow mine;
....I'm wondering about this one..has any of you grown it?..what do think of it? 
