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Post by bluelacedredhead on Oct 19, 2007 8:47:44 GMT -5
I bought a lovely specimen of a Celebration squash back in late August at a farmer's market to save seed. It's still in great condition and as I've been busy saving seeds of other veggies up til now, I haven't bothered to cut it open. But what disturbed me is that once it completely cured, the green patterns on the skin have all disappeared. It is now a light orange squash with dark orange stripes. Is this what is meant to happen?? Or just my luck?  |
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Post by Alan on Oct 19, 2007 13:08:08 GMT -5
Yep, it seems that as they age they change colors! I've still got a table full of them to continue to save seeds from and they are all on their way to the yellow/white stripe converted version, I have also noticed a slight difference in the internal flesh coloration at this point which becomes a darker and somewhat sweeter orange. An interesting trait indeed and one that I plant on breeding into other Acorn and Delicata types just for fun.....
-Alan
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Oct 20, 2007 8:49:58 GMT -5
Paintman and DIL both think that it's a very attractive squash even though it's lost the green racing stripes.
Flowerpower mentioned the other night that she had bought an interesting acorn type at the grocery store. Orange with green speckling. It had some trendy name of course. But I don't recall what that was? I believe she intended to save seed from it as well. .
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Post by Alan on Oct 25, 2007 17:57:04 GMT -5
Did I mention i'm going to try to breed some of these stripes into some Ornamental edibles like baby boo and jack be litte and vice versa!
-alan
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Oct 25, 2007 19:51:04 GMT -5
Alan,
There's already a mini pumpkin with stripes. It's called Hooligan. Mine were very small, but then again I grew them in 2 gallon buckets. But really cute. Next year I'll find a place to grow them where they have more space to grow.
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Post by Alan on Oct 25, 2007 23:06:00 GMT -5
These will probably be an intermediate step between the baby boo/jack be little size and that of an acorn squash, perfect size for a two person dessert! If nothing else it will foster some further diversity in my squash gene pool.
-alan
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 26, 2007 6:09:36 GMT -5
The Orange Acorn is called "Jersey Golden". It is supposedly less stringy than green Acorn. And has a highter sugar content. The other squashes I picked up were a buttercup and Carnival. The Carnival had 2 shapes- an acorn and what looked like a small flat pumpkin.
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Post by Alan on Oct 26, 2007 10:03:41 GMT -5
Jersey Golden is a great acorn squash and one that I prefer. I've never seen the flatened version of carnival, though I do have one "mini-pumkin" that is larger than baby boo and jack be little which I found at a local stand that is white with green ribbing, it's pretty tasty too, for the most part anytime you see that nice white/green coloration you have great genetics for taste because of using either delicata types or sweet dupling types as a parent!
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Post by daylilydude on Nov 17, 2007 11:43:51 GMT -5
I bought some of those Hooligan's from my local grocery along with some Baby Boo's and Jack B Little's for 10 fer a dollar. i like the idea as usin them for T-DAY decoations then eatin and savin seeds it's great all the way around ! So Alan or anybody ifn ya want some seeds for the hooligans i'll save ya some for next season.
P.S. I'll try and get picks and post!
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Post by Alan on Nov 17, 2007 13:11:30 GMT -5
Sure, i'd like to have some seed from them  Thanks so much. -alan |
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Post by daylilydude on Nov 17, 2007 13:16:35 GMT -5
Alan just finished eatin one got seeds a dryin so ifn ya give me your addy i'll get some off to ya after they dry.
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 18, 2007 6:20:50 GMT -5
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Post by daylilydude on Nov 18, 2007 6:56:39 GMT -5
MMMMM ...Thanks flowerpower i just went and checked the site where this man got his seeds and dang it they are hybrid f1's so Alan if you still want some i'll send them when they dry just let me know! Thanks again flowerpower for makin me go check and making a big mistake. Here's where he got them. seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/64/1 |
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Post by daylilydude on Nov 18, 2007 15:09:46 GMT -5
I promised a pic so here it is.  |
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Post by Alan on Nov 18, 2007 17:35:26 GMT -5
I'd still gladly take some of those seeds, if nothing else F2's make great breeding material! Thanks so much daily dude!
-Alan
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