So, I grew a couple hills of Kabocha squash from seeds from a Seed Saver's
Exchange member. Did reasonably well in a known cruddy part of the garden
and a dodgy year. I stored a half-dozen squashes on my plant table, now
not full, since it isn't spring, and the first one I cut open to gut and
roast had a lot of nice big seeds in, which I cleaned and dried.
Just now, I sliced open the biggest of the batch, perhaps 10 inches in
diameter. Nice thick flesh, but only a little pulp in the middle with NO
SEEDS! A few little vestigial seeds, but nothing like the earlier one.
I thought cucurbits wouldn't develop if pollinated. Have I got a "Capon"
squash?
Color me perplexed; not the first time, and surely not the last.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G