Grey zuchini double barrel

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Grey zuchini double barrel

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Post: # 73319Unread post JRinPA
Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:52 pm

I don't recall a fused zuchini before. Probably the blossoms fused just like tomatoes? Or? I'm considering letting the seed develop to grow out next year...
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Post: # 73321Unread post Shule
Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:07 am

Nice. I hope it turns out well if you grow them. I had wonderberries do that once (with three fused fruits), but the seeds grew plants with regular fruit. I'm pretty sure it can be genetic, though.

I had a cherry tomato that had 10 locules one year; it's still waiting on me to grow the seeds.
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Post: # 73342Unread post GoDawgs
Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:42 am

A two-fer! I think I've had just one of those before and it was a yellow straightneck. Pretty color. Is that one of the "gray" zucchinis?

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Post: # 73368Unread post JRinPA
Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:59 pm

Yeah those are grey. I think it was ferry morse seed, definitely from walmart last year. A little saturated with the flash maybe. They look nice and the leaves get those grey splotches on them too. The fruits are typically shorter and fatter than a typical black beauty or fordhook. I saved seed last year from a mixed patch and only planted the saved grey this year, and they all look true enough. Well, except this double. We're about two weeks into the crazy summer squash growth period right now, so there are plenty of others. Starting to see squash bug eggs this week.

Daytime photos- It's a shame that fennel is gone. It must have froze out in January. That spot gets cold, only a few hours of sun there in the winter. It was up with the red rhubarb.
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Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:37 pm

I've grown the gray before. 'Grayzini' I think. For awhile it outproduced the regular zukes. Pretty foliage too.

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Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:42 pm

That’s Awsome I have been getting the same thing this year different variety but mine has 2 flower heads on each stem for male flowers and 2 flower heads on a 2 fused zucchini never seen anything like it growing good so far.

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Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:56 pm

Wow that puts a whole other twist on "zucchini loaf".
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Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:21 pm

AKgardener wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:42 pm That’s Awsome I have been getting the same thing this year different variety but mine has 2 flower heads on each stem for male flowers and 2 flower heads on a 2 fused zucchini never seen anything like it growing good so far.
That's great, so you actually are seeing the odd formation first. I rarely look closely at the flowers.

Zuchini loaf, sounds like a need a recipe for that Bower.

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Post: # 73603Unread post AKgardener
Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:23 pm

@JRinPAyes I'am I took pictures of it cause I couldn’t believe it there on my green ones and yellow. Definitely ready to make zucchini bread !!

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Post: # 73609Unread post pepperhead212
Mon Jul 11, 2022 1:04 pm

I had this happen a few years ago with a bottle gourd, and I saw the blossom because I look for the female blossoms because I pretty much have to hand pollinate them, since they open late, after the bees are in. It looked really strange, when I saw it, but I pollinated both sides, and here's what happened:
ImageCojoined flowers - Siamese twins? by pepperhead212, on Flickr

ImageCojoined friit, before blossom dropped off. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

ImageFirst bottle gourd - a twin, 6-20 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

ImageFirst bottle gourd, a cojoined fruit, 46.2 oz. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

ImageCojoined bottle gourd, halved, showing no seed growth at all! by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I've seen peppers like this, and tomatoes, but never saw the blossoms from the beginning, like this one!

Update - just harvested this today:
ImageSiamese twin tomatoes by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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