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Post by jocelyn on Apr 30, 2017 6:16:16 GMT -5
I just cut into my very last squash. From now on, it will be whatever the grocery store has. They kept well, only 3 with bad spots, so a good year. Yummy too. How was everybody else's harvest last fall?  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 30, 2017 10:42:43 GMT -5
I have a squash variety that I am inadvertently selecting for long-keeping. This makes two years in a row that I open a basket of the squash the same day that I replant it the next spring. So that's like 9 months from harvest. It is a moschata. The purposeful selection criteria is leaf shape. I'm selecting for fig-leaved. Fig-leaved moschata squash I also have an acorn squash (bleck), a mixta squash (bleck), and a maxima squash (yum) that I haven't opened yet. I have been saving them because of special traits, and haven't got around to saving the seeds yet. |
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Post by taihaku on Apr 30, 2017 13:56:11 GMT -5
It is a moschata. The purposeful selection criteria is leaf shape. I'm selecting for fig-leaved. Fig-leaved moschata squashThat is gorgeous; feels like the seed companies could sell that as an ornamental. What do the fruit look like Joseph? |
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Post by richardw on Apr 30, 2017 14:09:48 GMT -5
I gave some maxima's to a friend last week who still had one from last growing season, so 12 months. Not sure which Cucurbita keeps the longest.
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Post by philagardener on Apr 30, 2017 17:20:01 GMT -5
I had a green striped cushaw that made it from Fall harvest to a year from the following Spring (17 months). It finally went a bit soft down in the body cavity but the neck was solid. They do get a bit fibrous (I suspect in part from drying) as they age like that, however.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 30, 2017 23:06:00 GMT -5
taihaku: Thanks. The fig-leaved trait first showed up on a plant with a dark green ribbed fruit with super high carotene levels. I have been selecting for necked squash as a secondary trait. I'll intend to take and share a photo of the current generation before planting. First fig-leaved moschata that I noticed. 
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Post by philagardener on May 1, 2017 5:33:12 GMT -5
First fig-leaved moschata that I noticed. That's a pretty clear message!  |
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