I planted them in a row, next to each other, thinking I would get a row of acorn squash. Last year my acorn squash were small vining plants. These are not small vining plants! There are about a half dozen plants all crowded together.
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> Scallop/acorn cross This is the best one so far. The size and color is right, but it has the ribbing that most of the acorn crosses have, and it's pointed on the end. The scallop squash I grew last year had some natural ribbing, but nowhere near as pronounced as this, and they were not pointed on the end.
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> Crookneck/acorn cross This one is not quite as dramatic, but you can see the green tint, and slight ribbing. The second pic is a normal squash.
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> zuchinni/acorn cross Again, you can see the ribbing from the acorn influence, plus it is short and blunt, not long and skinny like zuchinnis are.
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These are new, they look like acorn squash, but the color is off. I'll watch them to see how they develop.
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cross? These fines are already 12 feet long and growing like crazy. The fruit is round, just like my pumpkins. No sign of ribbing yet.
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is noteworthy of these, is that the seeds for
*all* of these came out of an ordinary looking acorn squash. Who would have thought that all of this would come out of a normal acorn squash? I wish now I would have planted 30 of these, just to see what kind of variety I would get. The plants are large and quite vigorous. I think that I will save some of the fruit and plant them next year to see what I get. The variety is a surprise, but so far they are very edible.
All of the pics
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