KayB
True Blue Farmgirl
540 Posts
Kay
Del City
Oklahoma
USA
540 Posts
Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 08:33:59 AM
I bought 2 cucumber plants and they were labeled as the same type of plant. I put tomato cages around them so that I could find the cukes easier. One of the plants is growing yellow cukes that have brown on them. I picked one and cut it and it smells and tastes like a cucumber but the skin is really tough. I also have a "volunteer" crook neck yellow squash plant growing very near to it and found a lime green squash on it. Is it possible that these are cross "breeding" or something? That's what everyone at work is saying, but I've never heard of that. The squash plant came out of nowhere because the ones I planted are quite a bit away.
KayB. Is the yellow cucumber round rather than long? If so, it could be a lemon cuke. An old heirloom varity. I don't think that squash and cucumbers will cross polinate. I am pretty sure thay won't cross the first generation. Strange things happen in the plant world. Sounds interesting enough that you might check with OSU. Save the seeds.
That volunteer squash is probably from a plant from last season that was not an heirloom or open pollenated plant. They can grow some pretty weird offspring!
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Strange Veggies
Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 08:33:59 AM
