I gave my neighbor some BB zucchini seedlings I started. It’s definitely a zucchini as I planted some myself and got regular looking zucchini’s.
All of her zucchini’s have grown like that, curious as to why? She had a cucumber plant near by and another neighbor next to her has a pumpkin plant growing. Is it cross pollination?
Inside looks like a zucchinis inside. I’ve never seen a zucchini grow like this shape. I made zucchini bread last night and it tastes as it should.
The funniest part is she barely took care of her garden. We just live in apartments and do containers and grow bags. She works a lot so they get a bit neglected. But of course, at one point her little garden box was doing better than mine! Now hers is getting toasted from the heat and mine is thriving but she’s still killing it with the zukes.
by RavishingRedRN
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Where did you get your seeds?
Looks like it was fertilized with pollen from a pumpkin.
What does the inside look like?
If it was cross pollinated, that would affect the next generation grown from the seeds of the fruit, not the currently developing generation. Is this her first year with these seeds?
Cause it’s a pumpkin.
Odd shaped courgettes\zucchini are most likely caused by irregular watering. They are quick growing fruit that require a lot of water to grow and if that supply is interrupted then it can lead to odd shaped fruit. For me it happens either at the very start of the plants life when the plant is growing fast and then much later in summer when it is very hot and dry here. The rest of the fruits are fine but I just picked a fat boy like your and it has been very hot recently.
Could it be that she left it on the plant too long and ended up with a marrow?
This definitely looks like a genetic thing, not from the growing conditions. The issue will have happened with the previous generation, though, so it was the company that produced the seeds who either mixed up some seeds of a different variety or didn’t control their pollination properly.
Just so everyone is clear, the fruit is the mother plants uterus.
The baby is the seeds.
If 2 people of different races have sex, they remain the same but their baby is ‘cross pollinated’.
Does this make sense to everyone now? Fruit is mom, seeds are baby. Mom doesn’t change, seeds do.
I’ve grown a variety of round zucchini that looks exactly like that when it gets too big.
What did the plant itself look like?
I grew a zucchini near a bunch of pumpkins and it grew fruit like this and it also grew vines or runners like a pumpkin, so I would think it’s a cross pollination if the plant also grew like a pumpkin.
My volunteer zucchini are doing the same this year
Cross pollination. Zuc grown last year was pollinated with pollen from another squash. This is the result.
I have two spaghetti squashes that look just like this. The rest are lighter and yellow, but two are ginormous and green.
Nice