From MARY JANE. Can anyone identify this squash ?

[MARY JANE]

[mrsgreenthumbs]

Looks like a watermelon to me

[mrsgreenthumbs]

Oh and good on ya for waiting! I usually pick stuff WAY before it's ripe and eat it asap! in the beginning of harvest time. Can't wait! lol I would have cut it up to investigate!

[cynthia_h]

It looks like one of the new varieties of zucchini, something like a cross btw Eightball and Gray zucchini.

Probably drop-dead delicious!

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

[MARY JANE]

When I planted these seeds they were white pumpkin-like seeds. One week ago, when I took this picture, I thought the fruit looked like a watermelon, but the leaves did not resemble watermelon leaves. The fruit is now turning dark green and there are many more fruits coming. How will I decide when the fruit should be picked ?

[scot29]

It looks like a pumpkin. The ones I grow look like that when they're young, then they turn orange.

[rootsy]

That IS a pumpkin...

[elementfiftyfour]

Ha ha, yep it sure looks a LOT like a pumpkin to me too.

[Tate]

That is possibly a Tatume squash. I found a picture on the web.

http://www.sustainableseedco.com/images/P/TatumeLG.jpg

Tate

[LindsayArthurRTR]

Uh uh! Not a punkin Eightball zucchini all the way!! Lucky, lucky, I would love to have that in my garden The eightball zucchini look like this...

http://www.schoolgardenweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/squash.jpg

Pick em small, tennis ball size. They are more tender that way:)

[jal_ut]

Another vote for pumpkin.

[garden5]

Is is growing on a bush plant? If it is, I'm going to have to guess that it's a zucchini since pumpkins don't usually grow on bush plants.

[rootsy]

Is is growing on a bush plant? If it is, I'm going to have to guess that it's a zucchini since pumpkins don't usually grow on bush plants.

Whatcha talkin bout Willis? I have quite a few pumpkin plants at the moment that are of the bush variety... You can get bush variety pumpkin plants for pumpkins into the nearly 20 lbs range...

I also have "eight ball" zukes... They are nearly spherical if not a little shorter on the axis. Whereas this fruit is oblong with a long axis.

[MARY JANE]

Some of these comments are funny. I asked a friend from Mexico and she said without a doubt it's pumpkin. Time, of course, will tell. Thank you everyone for your input.
Mary Jane

[petalfuzz]

Uh uh! Not a punkin Eightball zucchini all the way!! Lucky, lucky, I would love to have that in my garden The eightball zucchini look like this...

http://www.schoolgardenweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/squash.jpg

Pick em small, tennis ball size. They are more tender that way:)

Har, har, har! 8Ball zukes ARE pumpkins!!! We just eat them immature because they don't look that great when fully mature and hardened (poor orange coloring)

I thought it looked like a pumpkin. If it's supposed to be a white pumpkin, then it won't turn white until just before frost. The vine will die back and the squash's skin will get hardened. That's when to harvest.