Hybrid squash. What two types made this hybrid ?

[8ofgac]

Hey, I was wondering if you guys could answer this question I had ? Note these videos are not mine I found them on YouTube.

which squash or pumpkin types do you think made this hybrid in these videos I was thinking "Marina di Chioggia" x "Long of Naples". watch both videos. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDTz-CdRgE m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQjJNl1iH1I

[Joseph Lofthouse]

I'm not going to try to guess parentage. The leaves look mid-way between maxima/moschata. The peduncle looks like a moschata. The seeds look like a maxima. That is consistent with what I see with interspecies hybrids.

[Day]

8ofgac - Hm, very curious.

oh, and welcome to the forum!

Definitely could be a maxima x moschata hybrid -- the tetsukabuto squash is a commercially available maxima X moschata cross, and from the little I've read about it, crosses between those two aren't as difficult when the Moschata is used as the mother. To narrow, we'd have to know where they got the seed and what else was growing that season, naturally. I wonder if they ever planted the seeds from their mystery long warty pumpkin? Might be worth shooting them a message on youtube, you never know! Maybe nothing came of it, maybe they're still growing it. Never hurts to ask -- the worst you get is no response

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

The leaves looks very moshata-like with that silvery mottling (though maxima can do that rarely i think and pepo can too i think).

I remember seeing a very large warty blue moshata from japan online once. Googling produces "Shishigatani Japanese or Toonas Makino Pumpkin" which may or may not be the one i am remembering, but is the general shape but maybe not as long/tall. I think the one i saw was generic on ebay/amazon and had no name.

The seeds do look kinda maxima like. If i didn't know better i'd say a cross between the moshata i mentioned above and a pepo zucchini? But that seems unlikely.

considering the woman in the video sounds to have the accent of someone in eastern europe i would venture a guess they grow unusual vegetable varieties that we generally do not get access to here. So trying to guess a cross from an Eastern European variety that we have never seen may be difficult.

[8ofgac]

Thanks guys for the reply's I have contacted them but no one has answered my messages .