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Jenny Wright: Excellent!! They are good eating even at that stage and odds are high the seeds are viable, I have gotten viable seeds out of much less ripe squash.
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Here's some more pictures of a couple more squash I found. I thought it was interesting that two of them have a bird house gourd shape. The vole who ate that one certainly seems to have carved out a little house! 😂

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Hey, thank you for the seeds. Here are a couple pics of the jungle that grew. There are small fruit trees in cages somewhere in there and the third pic is one growing four feet up in a mulberry tree. I meant to post a pic of the pile of squash, but the camera battery ran out so I'll have to post that later. There were an interesting variety of shapes that grew and I'll be collecting seed from a mix of them. Thanks again!

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Wendy Rafalski wrote:Hey, thank you for the seeds. Here are a couple pics of the jungle that grew.

That's quite a nice jungle! I'm glad they did well and that you are seeding them.
Thank you for pictures!
So cool to see what grew from those seeds. I'm really enjoying everyone's pictures.

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So here is the pic of the squash. I counted 68 total moschatas. There were round, pear shaped, and squat and round. There were also some the same shape but with some ribbing and those are still greenish. There are some other squash in the pic (Mountaineer maxima, a few misc. pepos, and Alagold moschata), but the majority are the landrace moschata.

Thanks again for the seeds!

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WOW!!!
Thanks for sharing!
I hope others got the same kind of results!

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Just thought I would share a video of the second generation. I planted a few seeds this year, but also used bedding from the chicken run in making a new raised bed. Since I had tossed a lot of squash guts to the chickens, I ended up with volunteers. After this harvest, I would be happy mail them forward.