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Interesting squash in your garden?
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Posted by ania_ca 10 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 16, 09 at 18:55
| Since it's squash season, I'm just wondering what unusual varieties everyone is growing. Post pics if you have em.
I'm growing tatume and am excited to try it. The plant is just starting to vine so it will be a while.
Ania |
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| Well I don't know if this is unusual, but I think I have an acorn/butternut hybrid growing. As a first time gardener I was surprised |
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| That would be very unusual as there are no existing acorn/ butternut crosses. They are different species. |
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- Posted by shebear z8 NCentralTex (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 16, 09 at 22:43
| I'm growing Tromboncino and Papaya Pear. The Tromboncino are amazing and huge. The Papayas remind me of yellow grenades. |
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| I have a yellow straight neck crossed with acorn squash. At least this is what I eliminated it to. Volunteer from my compost pile, and I know what went into it. It is long, light green, yellow/green inside, with dense flesh and tender seeds. When you cut it it almost looks like an avocado. The shape is almost like a straight neck, but with subtle ridges on one end. A very productive couple of vines too may I add....I like it a lot, and might grow yellow straight neck and acorn together again just to I get them (accidental hybrids) again. The other cross, on the other hand, acorn and black beauty zucchini, is not to my liking and I will either take it out, or eat the fruit when it is very small. They are a medium green color, oval shaped, skin gets hard early and they also get seedy early. |
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So glad to find this thread because I do have a strange one. I bought it at the local farmers' market and it was labeled as a zuc. As it began to grow it looked like a zuc but when the female blooms appeared the babies looked nothing like the zucs I've grown. I steamed the first one with some onions and dill and it was great. Tasted a bit like a cross between a yellow squash and a cuke! Any ideas about what I have here?
Here's the plant
Here's the bloom
Here's the fruit at a few young age
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| "That would be very unusual as there are no existing acorn/ butternut crosses. They are different species." Well then I have absolutely no clue what it is. Perhaps it's a variety of acorn squash, though it doesn't look anything like it, but it's nothing I've ever seen before. It kinda almost looks like a pumpkin I'll post a picture up soon |
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Diggin; Your squash shows obvious Straightneck heritage. Could be a cross with a striped zucchini. Whatever it its heritage its pretty. There are different cultivars in the C.pepo group which includes most summer squash, some Halloween type pumpkins, several winter squash, and the small ornamental gourds. They interbreed freely.
Takadi: acorns cross with straightnecks, crooknecks, zucchini, pattypans, pumpkins, and ornamental gourds as well as some winter squash like Delicata. However it if it begans to look like a pumpkin, that would be my chief suspect.
Her is a volunteer mongrel, part of its heritage is a Crookneck, but I have no idea what it crossed with, suspect a round zuke.  |
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Tromboncino Rampicante
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I have a few that are strange to me, bc all I ever grown before was summer squash but here they are.
a yellow straight neck/zuke hybrid that I made
a spaghetti squash
and a lakota squash that burpee describes as being a once lost, but now found type that the native Americans use to grow all the time
Your Friend,
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| My Watauga Pie Pumpkins (see the thread "Old Seed Ressurected" in the squash section for details), isn't setting fruit yet but the leaves are gorgeous. 
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| I'm growing Romanesco zucchini this year. I have a few, small fruits growing, but haven't been able to harvest one yet - the first one that seemed to be growing ended up rotting on the vine. The next biggest one that I've been watching for a few days now doesn't seem to be growing larger. It's my first year growing it and we've had a weird, miserable season sofar, way colder and rainier than usual so I can't say whether my experience with it is usual or not. I've read other's comments about it and they've been happy with it - can't wait to taste one and see for myself if I ever get one!! Lisa |
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| Lisazone6: Have you tried hand pollinating them? They will eventually rot on the vine if they remain un-pollinated. I like that stripey yellow one, looks tasty! Let us know how it is! |
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| Table Dainty squash 
Silvia |
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| I'm growing two Jumbo Pink Banana squashes. They appear to be coming along well and setting lots of fruits. I'm guessing I should thin them back to a couple of fruits per plant or else none of them will ripen. Either that or I'll be crushed under 3000 pounds of gigantic pink squashes. |
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| Hi Ania, I'm growing Tatume this year and really like it! It was a little tricky to get it to trellis, but the smooth, no-prickles vines are very cool. I really like the taste. Very zucchini, but a bit richer in flavor. I'm trialing several odd summer squash, mostly vining, this year: Mayeras (my new favorite), Tatume, Kamo Kamo, Mandan, Serpente di Sicillia, Gialla Nostrale and Lemon plus my more regular zucchini: Romanesco, Striato d'Italia, Coosa, Sarzana, Verde D'Italia, Odessa and Gray. Here are some pictures of the odd ones that are ready. Gialla Nostrale, an Italian vining zucchini. Great flavor, some what resistant to SVB:
 Mayeras - vining, so far VERY productive, excellent taste, watching to see how it does with the SVBs
 A few from July 12th. The Gialla are way too big, but they are still usable at this size. They grow VERY quickly. 
I'm growing an equal number of winter squash, but I'll put up a post later on about how they do. I'm battling SVBs again this year - they started on JUNE 8!! Way too early and were still around a few days ago. I'm trying a bunch of organic things to combat them and seeing how some of the odd summer squash does on its own. So far, so good. Enjoy your Tatume! It fantastic. Bellatrix |
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| @bellatrix, Where did you get the seed for the vining zucchini that resist SVB? I'd absolutely love to grow that sort. |
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| What sorts of interesting/rare/exotic squash could grown in San Francisco? Everyone's squashes looked so wonderful. |
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