Just luck, I assure you. :)
Well some luck is better than no luck I think?
Next year, you have to plant those cucuzza seeds you bought. Those things practically grow themselves. My vines look half dead. They really thrive in the heat. Our nights have been in the high fifties and low sixties lately, so I thought mine were done for- the vines are browning.
So, today, I count six new cucuzza squash hanging off the cattle panel out back. From the two seeds Iwas able germinate, and put in containers, I have been in cucuzzi for months with enough for friends and neighbors, too.