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"Wild" Pumpkin Vine Question
OK, I don't know whether or not the squash will be green. What I
should have said is we don't know what color it will be. I did say it would likely be green since this was a possibility previously mentioned. Green is a color which is possible. Likely may have been an innacurate adjective. I should have used possibly. To JoeSpareBedroom: Actually I did not suggest successful cross pollinations were impossible. I did not use the word impossible at any point in my post. Quite the opposite in fact. I said that they were notorious outcrossers. The word successful, in my mind, would only refer to the production of viable fruit and seed. While the vine will produce fruit and seed, it will not produce squash that is like the parents unless it were grown either in isolation or by performing hand pollinations. It is still successful from the standpoint of producing fruit and seed. We don't know anything about this seed including whether or not it is even a pumpkin. What we do know is that it will product some kind of fruit and seed, given a chance. What kind of squash it will produce is unknown. Anything is possible. It is also possilbe that it will grow squash that is true to type if the seed was originally grown in isolation. We can never know in this case because the orignial type is unknown. In the case of field pumkins it would be entirely possible to get a pumkin since they are grown in large field and probabley not many other squash nearby. This would qualify as isolation. We cannot know one way or the other since the origin of the seed is entirely unknown. All squash or pumpkins are edible, more or less. Whether or not they will grow true to seed is the point I was making. |
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