[Marcella]

If you leave T squash to grow the vine on the ground, remember it’s 10-12 ft. long, taking up big amount of space and the squash will form in a circle. If you let it climb and it’s a master of climbing with zillions of tentacles reaching out to attach to something (they are alive!, they are alive!), the squash will grow straight hanging down.

Those many tentacles will reach out into space, hunting something to grab, like other plants or a chair arm, anything they can find and it’s hell to try to get a tentacle off a wrong place. I still say, “they are alive!”.

[JRandomFreeper]

it’s hell to try to get a tentacle off a wrong place

Certain Japanese cartoons suddenly spring to mind....

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

1) Are you growing the squash in containers?

B) Are the leaves large and do they grow thick enough to create a significant shadow?

/johnny