Squash Puzzlement
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 |
Squash Puzzlement
On Dec 12, 2:36 pm, Gary Woods wrote:
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 Andy comments: Perhaps the bees were wearing condoms ????? ::))))))) |
Squash Puzzlement
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, AndyS wrote: On Dec 12, 2:36 pm, Gary Woods wrote: 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 Andy comments: Perhaps the bees were wearing condoms ????? ::))))))) You seem to have misconscrewed the role of the bees in the pollination of plants ;O) -- ³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.² -Archbishop Helder Camara http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
Squash Puzzlement
Wildbilly wrote:
You seem to have misconscrewed I believe in Boston, that's misconscrod. Actually, despite all the problems I have a good bee population around the garden and environs. 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 |
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