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Thursday, September 09, 2021
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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This is a Giant italian squash (Probably in the C. moschata species by the look of the stem) I brought this one to the Bethlehem Fair as an exhibition, it weighed 75 pounds! I got the seed from Lloyd Bright. I had tried to use it for a melon rootstock. However, the grafts failed (grower error) but I had kept a few of the un-grafted plants just to grow out and see what would become of them. This fruit is what I found growing in some tall weeds at the edge of my corn patch! There should be a GPC category for these! LOL
I have not grown any squash like this since I was a kid in the 80's and grew out some Jumbo Pink Banana squash from Henry Field's. They grew huge just like these. That Jumbo Pink banana strain is now lost and anything I have grown since has been very disappointing. If anyone has any, let me know. I would love to grow it again. Those Jumbo Pink banana's grew about three feet long and could get to 100 pounds or so. This giant italian squash line is also quite impressive and LLoyd has preserved it since the 1980's. He got the original seed from a neighbor who had gotten it in Italy. If anyone knows what these are used for I would be greatly interested in hearing from you.
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