I am an amateur gardener in every sense of the word. I've had tomatoes and jalepenos in the past but decided to expand the selection this year to include bell peppers, strawberries, watermelons, and squash. My sqash all died a few months back, but the other day I find this on one of my melon vines:
Are my melons paying homage to my squash, or is this some type of freak-fruit? I have several melon vines of differing types and they all ended up as a wad o' vines, so I'm not sure which variety of melon this is for sure, but it's probably a jubilee. I had one other oddball of the same type awhile back and it eventually filled out, but then I lost if to blossom end rotMaybe this type of melon always grows like this? I know squash and melons will cross-pollinate, but I read that only 2nd generation plants will bear the mixed fruits, which means that this plant would have needed to already have squash genes mixed in.
Anyone know what is up with th is little oddball? It looks healthy enough so far... All of my other melons (another, darker variety) look normal.
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Cool looking melon!
Interesting && I wonder what it will taste like.. Let us know ok..
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