• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Leigh Tate
  • Devaka Cooray
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Matt McSpadden
  • Jeremy VanGelder

Help ID Squash/pumpkins

 
Posts: 57
6
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
OK so I rarely go to Walmart and I never buy food there (still mad they ran my fav grocery store out of business). But tonight I had to pick up my sister's Rx and saw this big box labeled pumpkins. They looked interesting so I bought 3, each one different. Currently cooking the flat orange one. Just wondering if anyone has thoughts as to species/varieties?
2018-12-019.jpg
[Thumbnail for 2018-12-019.jpg]
 
Mary Hysong
Posts: 57
6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
for what ot
s wprth the flat orange one was very watery and bland. The green one had a lot more flavor, approaching buttercup but not quite as strong. It was also a little watery. I did realize these have been waxed and that's probably part of the reason they are a little watery, they haven't been able to respire some of their excess fluid off. So the flat orange one and it's seeds went to the chickens. Going to keep some seed fromm the green one. Will be a few edays before I cook the biggest one
 
pollinator
Posts: 680
Location: Montana
255
forest garden trees
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
They look like maxima squash to me. Cucurbita maxima is a squash species. In the Walmarts I've been in these appeared around Halloween. My parents bought a white maxima for my son somewhere for halloween. Having gotten used to better tasting maximas in recent years with orange flesh like Hidatsa and Loft house I rejected the seed after cutting it open and finding it pallid inside as well as out. That's not to say there aren't some interesting genetics there. Have a fruit stand turban squash in the pie pile (maxima). Planning to save the seeds just for the cool shape.
 
Don't sweat petty things, or pet sweaty things. But cuddle this tiny ad:
GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy
https://permies.com/wiki/270034/GAMCOD-square-feet-degrees-colder
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic