I'm growing both butternuts and Pennsylvania longneck and haven't worried about maturation time because we have been eating both as green summer squash. We eat them all the way from green to light orange, panfried in butter. I think we like them better that way rather than the stronger flavor of the mature orange flesh. When they are green the seed chamber can be eaten, but it is such a small proportion of the fruit on the longnecks that there is no rush to harvest the green ones when they are small.
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