What Is This?!

[vikkib]

My poor Butternut Squash plant did not have the best start in life! It was in a builders bucket for a bit too long and got a bit too much water but nonetheless it survived and I managed to free up a bit of ground a few weeks ago and planted it out. It already had one small fruit set and it's grown like crazy but it now has a rather strange looking fruit on it as well.

The seed was an "Wilko Vegetable Garden Winter Butternut F1 Squash".

The normal squash is about 4" long and the strange one is about 2" round.

Any ideas anyone?!!

[maytreefrannie]

Are both those on the same plant?

Sorry am no expert, this is my first year growing butternuts, am still looking for fruit to show.

[vikkib]

Are both those on the same plant?

Sorry am no expert, this is my first year growing butternuts, am still looking for fruit to show.

Yep!

I germinated the seeds inside, grew them on a bit and then hardened them off. Then I transplanted this one into a builders bucket and then into the ground. The bit of ground it's on used to be 'lawn' (a bit of grass really!) which I dug over and piled a load of loose topsoil from the other end of the garden onto as I hoped to get some raised beds built. Raised beds haven't happened yet so I levelled off a bit of the soil and popped the butternut squash and a courgette into it. They were both well developed by the time they went in the ground.

[tiachica]

looks like a melon... but I don't know.

[pdblake]

The top one's a butternut but no idea what the other is. Looks like some kind of round courgette.

[marathon]

My poor Butternut Squash plant did not have the best start in life! It was in a builders bucket for a bit too long and got a bit too much water but nonetheless it survived and I managed to free up a bit of ground a few weeks ago and planted it out. It already had one small fruit set and it's grown like crazy but it now has a rather strange looking fruit on it as well.

The seed was an "Wilko Vegetable Garden Winter Butternut F1 Squash".

The normal squash is about 4" long and the strange one is about 2" round.

Any ideas anyone?!!

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Buttercup squashes look like that.

Possibilities are that the saved seed was cross pollinated so not all fruits will come true or that the squash will grow into a similar shape to the other when as it gets bigger and the colour may change too. That's assuming they are on the same plant

[rustylady]

Are you absolutely both these fruit are on the same plant? I've never known such different fruit to develop on one plant.

[Rocketron]

Cross pollination ?

[vikkib]

Are you absolutely both these fruit are on the same plant? I've never known such different fruit to develop on one plant.

I have double checked and, yes, they are definitely on the same plant.

I've got a better pic on my camera but have mislaid the lead so will hunt for that later.

I figured it couldn't be cross pollination from this year (although it is right next to the courgettes!) as the genetic blueprints for the fruit for this year would have already been in the seed that I bought. Cross pollination of the fruit this year could cause weird effects on the fruit that came from the seeds from this year but I wasn't planning on saving them as they were F1 seeds anyway.

I'm really puzzled! Just hope it will grow and develop some more to give me some clues! The fruit seem to have stalled but the plant is growing like crazy).

I guess that's what I get for being a newbie and buying random cheap seeds from Wilkinsons!

[Incy]

The green one looks like the fruit on my alledged hunter squash (variety of butternut) but I haven't had anything that looks remotely like it's supposed to. Where did you get the seeds?

[vikkib]

The green one looks like the fruit on my alledged hunter squash (variety of butternut) but I haven't had anything that looks remotely like it's supposed to. Where did you get the seeds?

Wilkinsons

[PAULW]

Our lottie manager saves his own marrow seed and I have seen five differant types of marrow on the same plant, so it looks like the parent plant for your seed was grow a bit to close to another type of squash to come true.