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To: greeneyes
I posted this picture last week of an unusual type of small green squash:

All the other fruits on the same plant and surrounding squash plants looked like on of these:

Over the weekend I saw a very similar fruit to the small green one above, growing in someone else's garden, also on a squash plant where other fruits were yellow. I originally thought that this might be a squash-cucumber cross, but the other gardener did not seem to have any cucumber plants nearby.

Since it was so easy to find another example, I'm thinking that this might be a well known squash phenomenon.

6 posted on 10/12/2012 12:36:46 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

It is very interesting, but I have not a clue really - Where did you get the seed?

If you purchase a hybid tomato at the supermarket, and then plant the seeds from that tomato, you might get a tomatoes that could be like the parent plants used for the cross, I think.

I have no idea what happens to GMO tomato seeds in this type of scenario. Maybe some one who understands genetics could let us know what they think about the possibility.


12 posted on 10/12/2012 1:15:06 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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