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I can’t wait for blooms on the Trombetta di Albenga and the Cucuzza! The Cucuzza is doing well - the shade cabana worked just great and it’s growing and adding leaves. I flipped the ‘roof’ of the cabana up so it now gets more than morning sun, but left the seed sack up to block the strong afternoon sun. In a couple more days, I think the whole thing can come down, in which case the Cucuzza will have access to the wire and should be big enough to climb.

The Trombettas are growing at least a foot every couple of days - it’s incredible to watch them!

I can’t wait for blooms on the Trombetta di Albenga

I planted my Tromboncino because I thought it wasn't affected by Squash Vine Borers. Well, even though the plant stem is solid, and not hollow, the leaf stems are hollow..

Anyway, I saw some frisse, or whatever you call it on one of my Tromboncino squash..and cut the stem open..I stuck a tweezer in there, and pulled out a fat maggoty SVB larvae. He had hollowed out the solid stem, and the plant was suffering Then I noticed other "signs" of the little (insert profanity here) on the plant, Some of them had already exited the stem.. hole on both sides. Well, I mainly managed to mangle the plant.

I know JRandom suggested bacillus therengensis injected into the stem, but I am paranoid about accidentally poking myself with a BT filled syringe.

BTW, I found what I assume are brown eggs not just at the base, but also on some of the leaf stems higher up. I also think one of my cucuzzi might have gotten hit, but it doesn't seem as affected as the one Tromboncino.. I can put sticky tape on them, but i am afraid I will catch a bee, and I love bees.

In a couple more days, I think the whole thing can come down, in which case the Cucuzza will have access to the wire and should be big enough to climb.

FWIW, my cucuzzi seem more heat tolerant than the Tromboncino/Trombetta di Albenga. The leaves on the cucuzzi don't wilt at all in the afternoon like the T squash. I've been picking the little tiny brown spots, aka, SVB eggs off of my Tromb's and Cucuzzi. There were just a few on the Cucuzzi, and since the squash are both vines, it is pretty easy to spot them.

I am also garden sitting for some friends, and his Tromb' Squash had some SVP eggs on it. Also, his T Squash have escaped their cattle panel and are headed up a tree..Good luck picking squash fifteen feet up in a tree.