Ken B: Thanks for the grow report... Hoping for some photos later. I felt honored when Carol listed my moschata squash landrace in her seed catalog. Her book "Breed your own vegetable varieties" played a large role in altering my mindset which lead to the development of that squash. I loved the karma of the student doing something that benefited the teacher. The seed I shared with Carol focused more on necked squash and butternuts and less on pumpkins.
It's hard for me to screen for resistance to powdery mildew because it is so dry here. We had unusual monsoonal rain pattern this year and so I actually got to see powdery mildew this year. It hit the maxima squash hard. Some of the grow reports I get on the moschata say something along the lines of "Succumbed to powdery mildew, but it was so early that it had already produced its crop."
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