Hybrid squash maybe?

[WillyNelson]

One of my beds is always given over to squash, interplanted with sweetcorn. One of my Honey Bear squash seems to be growing a bit oddly and I wonder if its an odd hybrid of squash and courgette. The Honey Bear plants were grown from seed saved from last year's crop, which again were planted alongside courgette.

The plant in question is trailing like the squash plant but the fruit is elongated and pear shaped, but it's also stripey like the courgette.

This is the fruit in question

And these are the squash and courgette that its alongside.

[veggiechicken]

Honey Bear is an F1 so the seeds that you saved were unlikely to come true. I wonder how big its going to grow

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Still looks like it'll be tasty!

Snakeshack said he had an interresting butternut/pumpkin cross which sounded quite exciting to me! If you are reading this ss I am interested in some seed. hint hint.

[WillyNelson]

I didn't know that VC. We shall see what happens then...!

[Two_Sheds]

Apart from the F1 issue, squashes are very promiscuous, and will 'mate' with every other squash-type in the area.
So the resulting seeds are going to be mongrels

[WillyNelson]

The dirty squash! ;-)

I was sure all the seeds were from the same fruit, so odd that the rest look ok and this one is a bit funny. I'd have thought they'd all be identical.

[Two_Sheds]

Absolutely not: after all, human siblings don't all come out looking the same, do they?

[Two_Sheds]

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[WillyNelson]

Absolutely not: after all, human siblings don't all come out looking the same, do they?

But wouldn't all the seeds from one fruit be identical siblings - like twins. If only two gametes fuse to make the offspring (the seeds from which these plants were grown) and therefore their fruits should all be genetically identical. Then the seeds in those fruits are the next generation.

Edit: now that I've read up a bit on this... The pollen grain isn't the male gamete, it is what produces/carries the many gametes to the female. Therefore seeds in an individual fruit will be genetically varied.

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