#Squash breeding

[walks-the-ages]

Squash breed plans:

Marinara: Spaghetti (C.Pepo) x Rouge Vif D'Etampes (C. Maxima), to eventually make a bright red Spaghetti Squash --{because that thought just occured to me and is hilarious and would probably be pretty 'easy' to breed}

Florentine: Spaghetti (C. Pepo) x American Tondo (C. Pepo), to make a yellow and green Spaghetti Squash -- {mostly because more color is always fun, and I've noticed at work that when I'm ringing up most spaghetti squash, they're not perfectly round, they're more like rounded octagons or whatever, and it would be fun for them to have alternating colors in each section.}

White Banana: Cream of the Crop Acorn (C. Pepo; bush) x Jumbo Pink Banana (C. Maxima) to make a white Banana squash, and also seperately to select for bush habit on the Jumbo Pink Bananas so that it could be grown in smaller garden spaces without taking up fifty feet with the vine, and still produce rediculous amounts of food.

Everything I grow x any large moschata: trying to breed for Squash Vine Borer resistance, as they're a Huge Problem in this area :'(

They're what killed my zucchini plants the first year and killed off the original Jumbo Pink Bananas last year, but now we know planting them fresh in June still works perfect and they're able to ripen on the vine before the first frost, which is how we got our two Jumbo Pinks that, as of January 11th, are still Perfect looking in the storage room four months after harvest.