Two types of squash from the same plant

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Permalink Reply by Martha Hill on September 3, 2009 at 5:05pm

I believe they can !! Yellow squash planted with zuchinni will cross and give a green or green striped squash !! I plowed some under last year and got a cross between a pumpkin,zuchinni and a squash but the veg looked like none of them !! They were delicious though !!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Silverman on September 3, 2009 at 9:05pm

Thanks so much. You're the first person to have a (good) answer to the question!

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Permalink Reply by PiscesGirl on October 16, 2009 at 8:32pm

That is pretty cool! :)

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Permalink Reply by lou broering on October 1, 2009 at 1:22pm

I had zuchinni and yellow squash next to each other last year. Some of both were not harvested at the end of the season. When I was tilling the garden this spring I noticed some volunteer plants that I allowed to grow. I had a mixture of fruits that looked a lot like squash but with the stripes of zuchinni. None of my old timer gardening friends had ever seen anything like it. Original Message -----

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Permalink Reply by John Walker on September 4, 2009 at 10:19am

That's not a melodeon I see behind the squash is it?
John

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Permalink Reply by Michelle W. Flannery on September 4, 2009 at 12:44pm

I have a similar, but slightly different situation with my squash plants this year.

I started my new garden in virgin soil this year. I planted straightneck and crookneck yellow summer squash. Some of them looked just like they were supposed to, others were bumpy all over, and still others were a darker yellow or pale orange. More baffling, quite a few developed hard skins, like winter squash. Early in the summer I was disappointed in these. The skins were too tough to eat, which meant the squash needed to be peeled, and it was too much trouble with all that soft skin squash around. So I kept laying them by and using the soft skin squash. After a few weeks I realized the hard skin squash were not spoiling. I've been storing them on a shelf in a back room that runs a little cooler than other rooms. It's been nearly two months, and there is no sign of rot or decay in these hard skinned yellow squash. Now, it's wonderful to think that we'll be having these "fresh" squash later this fall. And I won't mind peeling them at all!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Silverman on September 4, 2009 at 3:08pm

Thank you. I am more at ease now knowing there are multiple 'possibilities' with squash and that mine is not some kind of interplanetary mutant.

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Permalink Reply by Tamra on September 5, 2009 at 5:46pm

I grow a round french zucchini. Last year one got really large, so I cut it off the vine and brought it in to save the seeds for this year. The outer skin turned orange and got thicker over a several week period, until every one thought it was a pumpkin. I planted the seeds this year and have nice round zucchini just like last year. My conclusion was that any squash would develop a hard shell and change colors if left on the vine long enough.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle W. Flannery on September 5, 2009 at 10:40pm

Thanks Tamra. I understand that, and in some cases, that's what happened, but some of the hard shelled squash were small and young when I picked them. (Example: an orange crookneck, about a week old, orange, and not more than six inches long) I think sometimes nature is just a big puzzle!

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Permalink Reply by Tamra on September 6, 2009 at 6:15am

Right, my point is, I think the hard squash DNA are in all summer squash. And it varies as to when they show themselves. In your case it was very early. I wonder if the cold wet summer had anything to do with it?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle W. Flannery on September 6, 2009 at 6:28am

Oooooohh! That's a very interesting idea, and I can completely believe it!

Well, we had a very hot, mostly dry summer here in Georgia. The heat started early, and it didn't cool until mid-August. Of all the tomato growers on KGI, I feel blessed in that we had a very successful tomato season. But Mother Nature is strange lady. Barely predictable these days.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Silverman on October 1, 2009 at 4:20pm

Comforting to know my two-variety squash plant is not the first in the universe but Nature's variations on a theme!

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