can anyone tell me what these are?
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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).
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).
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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)
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I have the exact same issue...
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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??
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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??
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Since I don't want pumpkins, should I snip it to allow the real squashes to grow?jal_ut wrote:On the left, spaghetti sq.
On the right, an immature pumpkin.
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?
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!
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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.