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Ryan M Miller

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In my latest update on the vining yellow crookneck squash, it looks like I may not get more than one fruit from the squash this year. I'm hoping the other participants in this project are getting better results than mine.
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I briefly go over the state of my vining yellow squash plants on my latest garden update on Bitchute at around the 13:00 minute mark. Although I was finally able to get a second yellow squash fruit pollinated, I'm not entirely confident that the second fruit will mature in time before the first frost.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cXd6AuEPQOCJ/

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I harvested all the squash that looked close to seed ripe of the Lofthouse Crookneck Landrace.

Then I put a sprinkler on it and the patch is one of the few things that survived that early first frost.

There is one off type, looks straightneck and a bit larger diameter like a zuchhini. Semi vining. Interested Ryan? It didn't make it into the first batch, but now that the patch survived I think it may make it.

Everything was looking bush till the end now a few are starting to look a little vine-ish.

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Joylynn Hardesty

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I had a single male flower blooming yesterday. I think I see additional teensy buds forming. The vine is now 8 feet long.

First average frost is Oct 15. There is still hope.

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Here is my latest update on the vining yellow squash. It looks like I'm only getting one seed fruit this year. That shouldn't be a problem since I have several other seeds from Esoteric Agriculture to grow out next year.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HKnxelyPJg0b/

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Here is my current status on my growout of vining yellow squash for 2020. I was able to get 60 viable seeds from the one squash fruit I was able to get to mature, but I found two squash vine borers in the squash while I was extracting the seeds. I'm hoping to grow some of my seeds from 2019 next year as well as more of the seeds I got from Esoteric Agriculture.

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Joylynn Hardesty

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I'm sad to say that my vine died before setting any fruit.

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I had some crookneck squash vines last year, crazy things had runners I had to keep cutting because they were blocking paths. Unfortunately, I didn't realize they didn't exist and didn't save any seed. I have no idea where the seed came from, I found them in a junk box. Hopefully, some volunteer plants will come up this year. They were really prolific, 4 plants kept all my neighbors and acquaintances fed. robjohn@midplains.coop c

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Sorry for the delay. My results growing the crookneck seeds this year from Esoteric Agriculture were far better than even in 2020. I was able to get four fruits sucessfully pollinated and have saved seeds from one fruit so far.

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William Schlegel

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I finally made a plant breeding move with Mandan Squash, Lofthouse Crookneck, and Lofthouse Zucchini last year. This year the result was tremendous, and I added in Zephyr F1 and Costata Romanesco. Next year I plan to add in Carol Deppe's Goldini squash. I can't wait for the F2 or maybe more properly G2 next year.

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It's been a few months since my last update on this breeding project, but I've finally collected the remaining seeds from my two best vining yellow squash plants this year. I wanted to allow the fruit to cure indoors for at least three months to allow as many seeds in the fruits to mature as possible.

Only one of the plants actually produced pear-shaped fruit, but the other still shares the same male parents in its fruit seed since I hand-pollinated the flowers. I intend to grow out seeds from the pear-shaped fruit next year in the hope that I will get more vining plants with pear-shaped fruits that I can back-cross with Lofthouse's crookneck landrace.

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Greetings! I'm looking for a pure native vining yellow crookneck like the one back in pre-settlement, pre-Columbian times and is it still present? I only found the bush types. Any native strains out there owned by private groups from this country and around the world? If there's one that's totally connected to many eastern woodland tribes, please let me know. Adios!

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Blake Lenoir wrote:Greetings! I'm looking for a pure native vining yellow crookneck like the one back in pre-settlement, pre-Columbian times and is it still present? I only found the bush types. Any native strains out there owned by private groups from this country and around the world? If there's one that's totally connected to many eastern woodland tribes, please let me know. Adios!

You can send me a purple moosage if you're interested in participating in my breeding project. I have also had the same problems finding vining yellow crookneck squash varieties. If you participate, you will still be expected to hand-pollinate the squash flowers and know how to back-cross plants. Are you still interested?

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