Is this a pumpkin or watermelon??????

[Dylan Lambert]

This has been growing in my compost pile for a little while now. Just wondering if it is from pumpkins or watermelons i threw in the pile?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I don't think that's a watermelon. Looks to be a squash of some sort (which includes pumpkins)

 

[Dylan Lambert]

I don't think that's a watermelon. Looks to be a squash of some sort (which includes pumpkins)

Thanks! Only reason im guessing pumpkin or watermelon is because those or the only things i have thrown on the pile, and that was during last fall. I cant believe they waited until spring and started growing.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

If either of the original fruits were a hybrid or fertilized by a neighboring plant, there's no saying what kind of funky thing you've got growing there. Maybe it's the next greatest thing!!

 

[Severne]

Yeah, that’s defiantly a type of squash, I have experimented heavily on crossing squashes with each other and gowing them and that looks to be a cucurbita pepo. I’m not sure what type of pumpkin got thrown on the pile but if it was any of the jackolantern types I think it would be fair to say that that looks like some sort of hybrid.

 

[Dylan Lambert]

Yeah, that’s defiantly a type of squash, I have experimented heavily on crossing squashes with each other and gowing them and that looks to be a cucurbita pepo. I’m not sure what type of pumpkin got thrown on the pile but if it was any of the jackolantern types I think it would be fair to say that that looks like some sort of hybrid.

So do you think it will be edible?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Will it kill you? No. Will it taste good? Only time will tell. Yes, it's edible, but it may or may not taste good.

 

[Severne]

You can pick it as a summer squash to see and make the others...( if they come, sometimes the cross pollinated varieties don’t produce much or at all), into baked winter squash or pie.

 

[Stefaniechamo]

I agree looks like a summer squash variety

 

[Dylan Lambert]

Thanks for the input! I guess for now ill just wait and see