Help with ID of a squash

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:40 am

can anyone tell me what these are?
[img]https://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac232/blazecomet/102_2257.jpg[/img]

TZ -OH6 · Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:39 am

Looks like a spaghetti squash on the left and a spaghetti squash x zucchini hybrid on the right.

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:55 am

is it possible.

TheWaterbug · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:01 pm

TZ -OH6 wrote:spaghetti squash x zucchini hybrid on the right.

Would that make it a spaghettini?

TheWaterbug · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:02 pm

TheWaterbug wrote:
TZ -OH6 wrote:spaghetti squash x zucchini hybrid on the right.
Would that make it a spaghettini?

But seriously, a more specific thread title, e.g. "What type of squashes are these?" or "Name this mystery squash!" would get a whole lot more responses.

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:03 pm

on the second being a hybred how do u cook it the water bug

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:17 pm

does anyone know how to cook the spaghetti squish or the hybred

rainbowgardener · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:33 pm

Cook the spaghetti squash about like acorn or butternut or any of those. You can cut in in half, scrape out the seeds in the middle, and then bake or boil. Or you can leave it whole, poke some holes then bake, microwave or boil, scraping out the seeds after it is cooked (which I find harder).

Difference between this and acorn squash is after it is cooked, you separate it into spaghetti like strands by by running a fork through it in the "from stem to stern" direction.

Don't know anything about your mystery hybrid, but you can probably cook it like any large squash (as above).

TheWaterbug · Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:48 pm

rainbowgardener wrote:You can cut in in half, scrape out the seeds in the middle, and then bake

Dotted with some butter and brown sugar. Mmmmmmmm.

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:33 pm

thanks guys for the adivce

rainbowgardener · Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:37 pm

Or once you have it cooked and fluffed out into strands like spaghetti, you can treat it like that, with tomato sauce or whatever you do with spaghetti noodles.

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:41 pm

tanks rainbow

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:42 pm

I mean thanks rainbow.

BP · Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:22 pm

The one on the right. did it come from a seed you saved from last year?

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:41 pm

BP know they came from plants we bought.

BP · Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:50 pm

The reason I ask is (sorry if you already know this) but when you put different curcibits close together they cross pollinate. The fruit will be what it should be, but if you save seed and replant, that fruit will look like what you have. I learned this from this forum last year. (A little too late)

Bobberman · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:30 pm

They both look like the same thing to me only the green one is not mature yet. Spaghetti both!

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:37 pm

Who started the plants?

Eric

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:38 pm

so bobberman that is your last say they are both one in he same.

grapevine · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:40 pm

doubledogfarm I bought them from a small gardening place near me.

Bobberman · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:43 pm

The second could be a type of pumpkin also but I still think its a spegetti squash!

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:51 pm

Looks to me that they started with contaminated seed stock, or they save their own seed. Crossed with something. Zucchini?

All the Spaghetti I have grown, start out gray to green tint, then mature yellow. The one is much to dark.

Eric

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:57 pm

Lets back up a little. Did these come off the same plant? How many squash plants did you buy? Mislabeled?

Eric

grapevine · Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:50 am

the same plant but my husband said he thinks different plants.

DoubleDogFarm · Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:27 pm

If you harvest more, let us see them.

I'm thinking you may have purchased a mislabeled plant.

Eric

grapevine · Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:17 pm

ok know problem

grapevine · Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:20 am

here is some more
IMG]https://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac232/blazecomet/102_2288.jpg[/IMG]
[img]https://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac232/blazecomet/102_2287.jpg[/img]

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:41 pm

The yellow tan are most likely Spaghetti, the other looks like a immature pumpkin.

Eric

grapevine · Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:52 pm

does anyone else have ideas.

mmmfloorpie · Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:23 pm

I have the exact same issue...

[img]https://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm113/drew4allyou/0726111506-01.jpg[/img]

They are growing on the same plant, next to each other...

One is clearly a spaghetti and one is a....???

They were marked "spaghetti" and bought from a garden centre.

There is a zucchini plant right next to these mystery squashes.

grapevine: Did you crack open the green ones yet??

Bobberman · Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:40 pm

Two years ago I planted what I thought was spegetti squash and got the green ones. I cut them open and they were not anythibng like the spegetti squash but more like a young pumpkin.

jal_ut · Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:59 pm

On the left, spaghetti sq.
On the right, an immature pumpkin.

mmmfloorpie · Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:34 am

jal_ut wrote:On the left, spaghetti sq.
On the right, an immature pumpkin.

Since I don't want pumpkins, should I snip it to allow the real squashes to grow?

And when you say pumpkin, like something that will turn orange and I can carve in the fall??

If you were talking about my picture, wouldn't the pumpkin be the one on the left and the spaghetti the one on the right?

Bobberman · Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:08 am

If I remember right the so called pumpkin did not get orange but a off white and was not a spegetti squash when I opened it! At that time I thought I made a mistake labeling the seed since I was a saved seed I had from a spegetti squash the year before! I did have alot of zucks in the area so they may have crossed polinated!

jal_ut · Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:37 pm

grapevine, I was talking about your first picture. If these both came off the same plant, they are both spaghetti squash. IMO

mmmfloorpie, I have no experience with a squash vine that produces two distinct types of squash, and I have gardened for a long time. Its a fluke. Record it.

grapevine · Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:58 pm

the fluke has happened again but darker on the green stripes and back ground.

mmmfloorpie · Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:34 pm

grapevine wrote:the fluke has happened again but darker on the green stripes and back ground.

I think me and you are suffering from the same problem.

I've got a few "flukes" of these grainy skin alligators.

Did you cut one of the flukes open to see what's inside yet grapevine??

TZ -OH6 · Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:53 pm

Looking up the skirts of my spaghetti squash plants today I noticed that one was putting out speckled green fruit while the rest of the plants had the expected light green fruits. The seed were saved from one grocerystore spaghetti squash, so I guess that even in a big farm field of spaghetti squash there will be crossing if other varieties are grown nearby.