*SOLVED* UPDATED PICTURES. What Plant Is This?

[fur-mum]

I don't know what grows where you are, but we have wild cucurbits (squash family) that grow here that are not particularly edible. So be careful, and identify it before you munch away.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

All those suggestions are in the same plant family so could be one of any but I think it's a melon.

 

[tripletfeb]

That does indeed look like a melon. Reminds me of what happened in my garden last year. I planted a cantelope, it grew cucumbers! Then they went to seed and cantelopes starting appearing! I used to have pictures for proof but new phone since then... Anyways, enjoy watching yours grow!

 

[BreanneRN]

That does indeed look like a melon. Reminds me of what happened in my garden last year. I planted a cantelope, it grew cucumbers! Then they went to seed and cantelopes starting appearing! I used to have pictures for proof but new phone since then... Anyways, enjoy watching yours grow!

Some kind of funny business going on at those seed packaging plants? Anyway, hope it's a melon, too! Nothing like a nice cool melon from the refrigerator on a hot day, and the rinds go to the flock. And yeah, those wild birds do spread plants around... They should grow pretty fast, interesting to see what it becomes!

 

[feathermaid]

I don't know what grows where you are, but we have wild cucurbits (squash family) that grow here that are not particularly edible. So be careful, and identify it before you munch away.

Oh no! I don't know what those are, but sounds like some sort of Murphy's law... seems like all the good stuff is hard to grow and the weeds just flourish. And this plant is flourishing like no other!
Hmm...

 

[BreanneRN]

Well, don't snatch the thing out yet... It has yellow flowers and the leaves aren't really right for the Wild Cucurbit, I don't think... And there are quite a list of edible possibilities in that family as well, as posted here... https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-plants-in-the-family-Cucurbitaceae-2038063 Fruit does not look right for the Wild Cucurbit, which appears to have a spiny fruit/seed pod thing, rather than something melon like. So don't despair yet, let that goofy plant grow until we know what it is!

 

[BreanneRN]

A link to one of the weedy cucumber plants... http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/wild_cucumber.html yours doesn't look like this plant, at least.

 

[BreanneRN]

I'm still thinking hybrid, since it seems to be a composite of several of the plants in that family. Squash leaves, melon like fruit... So, perhaps it has "hybrid vigor"? Weird pumpkin/watermelon thing...

That does indeed look like a melon. Reminds me of what happened in my garden last year. I planted a cantelope, it grew cucumbers! Then they went to seed and cantelopes starting appearing! I used to have pictures for proof but new phone since then... Anyways, enjoy watching yours grow!

I have thought of a circumstance where that could actually happen... Consider there on the seed farm, the cantalopes were accidentally pollinated with cucumbers and subsequently produced hybrid fruit, that was then packaged as cantalope seed and sold on the market. When planted, the cucumber features were dominant to Cantalope features and plants produced cucumber like fruit. However, these fruit self-pollinated and approximately 25% of the seeds received 2 of the recessive cantalope genes, and therefore, when they came up next spring, those plants produced cantalopes. Of course, this is all strictly supposition on my part, and I make no claim to be familiar with the particular genetics of cantalopes and cucumbers as far as dominant/recessive traits of each....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

When I was a kid, we decided to move part of our garden to a creek bottom field. It was watermelons, cucumbers, muskmelons and cantaloupes.
We got great fruit but was none of the above.
They all cross pollinated.
We got cucaloupes and watercumbers.
They tasted interesting. It was kind of like eating new fruits in Thailand or Costa Rica.

 

[BreanneRN]

When I was a kid, we decided to move part of our garden to a creek bottom field. It was watermelons, cucumbers, muskmelons and cantaloupes.
We got great fruit but it was none of the above.
They all cross pollinated.
We got cucaloupes and watercumbers.

Wow, I want to try cucaloupes and watercumbers... Maybe even waterlopes and pumpkicumbers...! It sounds like so much fun!