Ryan Markley

Excellent information.  If cutting a piece of skin from the fruit to taste, will the cut portion "skin" over or heal itself?

Skandi Rogers wrote:The plants will give more than one fruit so if you get a nice summer squash (or cucumber) that fitted whatever criteria you were after (earliness, vigor, disease resistance etc) and you eat one and it tastes good, mark the plant and let one of it's fruit mature.

Thanks for the reply Skandi.  From my understanding, this would work with a non-landrace, because all of the fruits will be the same...but for a landrace, where each fruit is different, how would one guarantee that the flavor doesn't vary from one fruit to another?

Please pardon my ignorance, as I am just beginning to learn seed saving...how does one go about selecting for flavor in a summer squash landrace (or I guess cucumbers for that matter) when the seed saving stage does not match the timing of the eating stage?