Number of Fruit per Vine

[bluelacedredhead]

I've been trying to research the number of fruit per vine produced by squash varieties.
I've looked at Cornell's figures, but didn't quite find what I was after.

Of the varieties I'm growing this year, the Long Island Cheese is the most critical as I only have one plant out of a full package of seed.
Yet that plant, so far, has 11 fruit on it. All I really need is one to give me seed to save..but of course, the more the merrier. Some to sell as jackolanterns and ornamentals; some to save for seed; some to eat.

Other winter squash showing high levels of production are
Red Kuri
Black Futsu
Thelma Sanders

Green Striped Cushaw just starting to fruit as are Rouge vif d'etampes and Kikuza.

How about the winter squash in your garden?

[downinmyback]

my Green Striped Cushaw vines are dying but they have produced a bumper crop. I grew some 40 pounds ones and it seem that i also got 1 plant from twenty seeds and i had to go buy more seeds but it was strange that one plant had all of the monsters. The source of the seeds was TomatBobs. The second pack of seeds was from Bonnie Farms. This is the only winter squash i planted this year but i try to only grow one a season to keep from crossing them. My plans for next year are Pie Pumpkins and hopefully they will do good too.

[bluelacedredhead]

My Green striped Cushaw seed came from my friend Phyllis in MO. She sent a bag of seeds along with a mutual acquaintance, to the big poultry show last year. She sent enough that I had lots for here and some to give away at the show.
I started plants here to check viability and then started some by direct seeding in the garden. Still a bit of difference between the size of the plants, but the direct seeded ones are catching up quickly.
I hope they have time to mature, but I did hold some seed back for next year in case they don't beat the frost.

Down, I understand your concern with crossing varieties, but I spents months planning what I could and couldn't grow.
I have enough Cushaw and enough Thelma Sanders to carry me through to the 2008 season without saving seed. The other varieties had to be very carefully isolated to prevent crossing. And some I didn't plant this year so that there was no crossing involved.
If I didn't have to worry about crossing, I would have planted at least twice as many squash as I did for 2007, LOL