UUGGGHHH!!!! Butternut Rugosa? NOT SO MUCH

[Anthony_Toronto]

Started Blue Hubbard, Triamble, Delicata, Buttercup, and Red Kuri, and was most looking forward to Butternut Rugosa. Put in 5 Rugosa plants, last to germinate, slowest to grow, but finally got going and are now covered in squash...REGULAR BUTTERNUT SQUASH. I hate it when these type of mix ups happen. Oh well...

Only one I've tried so far of the above varieties is a delicata, but it really had no flavour...guess it needed to be a little older or age for a little longer.

[Fred Hempel]

I suggest this vender for B. Rugosa

http://www.growitalian.com/winter-sq...ternut-145-15/

[Anthony_Toronto]

Thanks Fred. The store I bought from is going to re-send me a packet from a different lot of seeds, but I think I'll hedge my bets and order from your vendor also. I guess I'll just have to be happy with boring old small butternut for this year.

[Fred Hempel]

We have picked about 6000 lbs of Rugosa this past month. and there is 2 or 3 times that still on the field.

One restaurant has already taken delivery of 2K lbs...

All from Seeds From Italy. No little, shiny butternut in the lot.

[Anthony_Toronto]

Wow! Would be great to see some pics. The first butternut on my vines is rather large (maybe 9 pounds) so I was waiting for the ridges and rough surface to develop, but eventually realized it was not meant to be.

[Fred Hempel]

Wow. That is large for any butternut other than B. rugosa.

[Anthony_Toronto]

It was just teasing me, getting my hopes up. There are one or two other large ones, but the rest are actually smaller than I would expect, but still plenty of time for them to have a growth spurt.

[Fred Hempel]

Are you sure you don't have Butternut Rugosa? The bumps don't develop until the very end, and many times they are less pronounced than in the packet photos.

[Anthony_Toronto]

Unfortunately yes, they are definitely regular butternut waltham.

[Fred Hempel]

Oh well. You could have alot worse...

At least it wasn't a zucchini

[Anthony_Toronto]

Ha...now that would have been an unpleasant surprise. Or even worse, could have been spaghetti squash!

[epsilon]

I have a pic for you.

Edit: I finally took the photo. i had to cradle it to bring it in and before it lost some of its water weight it was hefty like a sack of potatoes

[Anthony_Toronto]

Lovely!!! And definitely NOT what I have unfortunately.

[lakelady]

Butternut Rugosa is my FAVE squash! Last year I didn't plant them and regretted it. This year I got a late start, but have 3 squashes growing, one is about ripe the other two are smaller for now. I know mine won't be crossed because I grew NO other squashes at all. If you can wait, I'll send you some of my seeds from my squash Anthony.

Antoniette

[Tracydr]

Okay. Now I'm going to have to buy more seeds!