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Cincinnati, OH

Anybody else seen this?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/09/23/monstrous_cucumber_pumpkin_cross_draws_attention_at_fair/

This is pretty neat. Anybody seen a picture of this?

9/24/2005 9:35:11 PM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

Didn't happen. It would be akin to a chimpanzee mating with a human and producing offspring.

9/24/2005 10:11:45 PM

Md/ Usa

I don't see a picture in article?

9/24/2005 10:42:13 PM

MAINE.USA

I'll post the pic. soon. It is REAL!!

9/24/2005 11:51:34 PM

Leamington, Ont.

If they planted AG seeds and cuke seeds, then pollinated the cukes with AG pollen, wouldn't the cukes still resemble cukes until the off spring are planted?

Let's say they pollenated their AG's with the cuke pollen, would their pumpkins turn into cukes?...HMMMM, Something don't seem right.

9/25/2005 1:38:16 AM

MAINE.USA

You are wright!! it is Long,smells like cuk
Post pic. soon! Cumberland Fair 25th Sept.05 [GP}

9/25/2005 3:23:22 AM

New Hampshire

Cukes are not in the Maxima family of curcubits. It didn't happen.

9/25/2005 6:21:03 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

It didn't happen, cucumbers and pumpkins can't cross.

9/25/2005 7:16:55 AM

Montoursville, PA

Just another attention monger getting his rocks off punning the public.

9/25/2005 12:58:07 PM

HHMMM. I got some deformed pumpkins that are long and resemble a huge cucumber, it's even green too! But there was no funny business between cukes and pumpkins, just pumpkins with pumpkins. My friend can't grow pumpkins even AG's around his cucumber business because it could effect the pollination of the cucumbers. Don't know if that's true or not. Maybe the cukes go deformed if pollinated with AG pollen?

9/25/2005 4:26:10 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Hmmm Chocolate Milk comes from brown cows also. Can not happen. What blows my mind is the person that wrote the article did not do any research.

9/25/2005 5:55:08 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Folklore vs Facts

Has to be of the same species!!!! I argued this statement earlier this season. I will state it again.

Since they have a similar flowering habit, bloom about the same time, and are members of the same plant family, it is logical that gardeners might assume that squash, melons, and cucumbers will cross-pollinate. Fortunately, however, this is not true. The female flowers of each crop can be fertilized only by pollen from male flowers of the same species. Cross pollination, however, can occur between varieties within a species. Cross pollination can be seen in the squashes and pumpkins. Summer squash, pumpkins, gourds, and some types of winter squash belong to the same plant species Cucurbita pepo. All species members may cross with one another. Thus, an acorn squash will cross pollinate with a zucchini or a miniature gourd. However, muskmelon (Cucumis melo) and cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) belong to different species and will not cross with each other or members of the Cucurbita genus. An example of incompatibility can also be seen in the animal kingdom. Cardinals cannot mate with blue jays. (The part of the lesson about the "birds").

9/25/2005 6:00:59 PM

Ri

i happened to be in rumford maine working last week and in the local paper [friday morning addition] was the "cukin" article. the pic was a good quality with an AG and the "cukin" in the same shot. the squash had deep ribs that were white lines and the fruit a beuatiful deep green. the article decribed the cukin as tasting like a fine cucumber. peter ps the AG was a very nice orange in the 300+ range according to the article.

9/25/2005 8:48:39 PM

Long Island,New York

But Boxers can mate with St Bernards? hee-hee

9/25/2005 10:07:50 PM

Sequim, WA

Sure G. but chihuahua's can only do it if they get a little ladder. ›;o)

There are a few cucurbita species that can cross pollinate. I believe C. Moschata with cross with both C. Pepo and C. Maxima. Maybey C. Argospyra too.... I'll have to take a look at my book to be sure and it's at home right now, while I'm at work.

9/26/2005 12:31:40 PM

Indiana

Well....many of the above mentioned crosses can happen...but thats under lab conditions with special chemicals/hormones or whatever.

9/26/2005 12:41:31 PM

Follansbee, Wv

I saw a picture of it. It looks like a green squash to me. My question is this...how do they know it tastes like a cucumber if it hasn't been cut into yet? All of the articles I have found claim people are lining up to get seeds when they are finally removed...heh, if they believe that, they should come to my house...I have an 1100 pound cantelope, just look at my diary...I swear it tastes just like cantelope :)

9/26/2005 1:53:51 PM

SF Bay Area, California

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11/19/2005 10:56:41 AM