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What happens when you plant US jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds in Turkey
A Turkish friend of mine hand-carried a packet of jack-o-lantern
pumpkin seeds bought while in the US and planted them in one of his fields last year. The first crop came up pretty normal as I recall, though they were somewhat misshapen and huge. He collected the seeds from the harvested pumpkins and planted them this spring. The attached jpgs show some of the results. The single big one (the little glass mug next to it holds 200 ml) looks like something from a horror show. All of them resemble demons from Hell. The squash most closely resembling an American pumpkin in Turkey is called balkabağı (literally "honey squash") https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_kaba%C4%9F%C4%B1. They're enormous. Their very thick shell makes them quite difficult to carve (I tried it for Halloween my second year in Turkey) and has a distinctly bluish tinge. -- Bob St Francis would have done better to preach to the cats |
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What happens when you plant US jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds inTurkey
On 10/3/2020 9:47 AM, Opinicus wrote:
A Turkish friend of mine hand-carried a packet of jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds bought while in the US and planted them in one of his fields last year. The first crop came up pretty normal as I recall, though they were somewhat misshapen and huge. He collected the seeds from the harvested pumpkins and planted them this spring. The attached jpgs show some of the results. The single big one (the little glass mug next to it holds 200 ml) looks like something from a horror show. All of them resemble demons from Hell. The squash most closely resembling an American pumpkin in Turkey is called balkabağı (literally "honey squash") https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_kaba%C4%9F%C4%B1. They're enormous. Their very thick shell makes them quite difficult to carve (I tried it for Halloween my second year in Turkey) and has a distinctly bluish tinge. They are some nasty looking pumpkins. Would scare the thick or treaters if you put them on the front steps. |
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What happens when you plant US jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds in Turkey
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 10:12:39 -0400, Wolf K
wrote: Looks like the seeds were from a hybrid cultivar, created to make nice-looking pumpkins. Hybrid cultivars do not breed true. That is my guess also. Tampa Bob |
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