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  • From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Blue Hubbard Squash are yellow
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:05:55 -0500

Squash are cross-pollinating plants. The seed wouldn’t necessarily be true because the bees which pollinate are carrying pollen from other plants, some of which may not have been the same variety. The seeds from that pollination and the resulting fruit would be a mix of traits from each parent. Are their real differences in the plants and fruit within that planting? That would indicate that the parents were truly different.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jen and Derek Campbell
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 12:47 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Blue Hubbard Squash are yellow

 

I was given the seeds from a friend who was impressed with how long the blue hubbard stored.  He purchased it last fall at the market and took a picture of it for me to see as it stored on his counter top for 7 months.  They seem in good condition and I"m going to harvest a few and cut them open to see what condition they are really in. 

Jen

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

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From: Jen and Derek Campbell 

To: Market Farming 


Sent: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 8:19 am
Subject: [Market-farming] Blue Hubbard Squash are yellow

This is my first year growing blue hubbard squash, they are really big and just recently they turned from blue to yellow, the vines are still healthy and green and I assumed like other winter squash they would be ready to harvest when the vines started to die back and the squash rind was hard.  Any suggestions?  A few are still blue but not many.   Thanks.

 

There's a variety called Golden Hubbard -- is it possible that you have this, or some other yellow-ripening variety, instead of one of the Blue Hubbards?

 

Do the fruit seem in good condition? what's the flavor like?

 

 

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

 

 

 


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