When your cucumbers and pumpkins cross pollinate you get… cucumpkins?
When your cucumbers and pumpkins cross pollinate you get… cucumpkins?
by sunny_bunny_babe
13 Comments
SnooGoats3389
Only if you saved the seeds
Cross pollination does not effect the fruit of the original parent a female butternut squash flower pollinated by courgette pollen will still produce a buttetnut squash….but the seeds inside that butternut squash will grow into hybrid plants that produce a mystery fruit
rowan_ash
That’s not how it works. The yellow ones are just overripe.
Lunchbox3178
Cucumbers won’t cross pollinate with pumpkins. These cucumbers look like they have been on the vine too long, and anything with that yellow orange color probably won’t taste that great because they are on their way to being rotten.
Cucumbers yellow as the age, as the seeds develop, and as they get bitter.
Unless the seeds planted to grow the plant were cross-pollinated, these are probably just regular cucumbers. Cross-pollination only affects seed genetics and the next generation of plants. If the flowers these grew from were cross pollinated, the fruit from those flowers would still look like normal cucumbers, but if the plants that grew from the seeds would be hybrids.
anonnomiss627
These are just overripe. Not a cucumber/pumpkin cross.
Impressive-Bob5583
Wowzer! That’s so cool!
whatever_meh
These are normal looking pickling cukes.
J3nny_420
They’re overripe cucumbers.
oh2ridemore
Only keep those yellow cukes if you want seeds, and then you want them to ripen completely on vine.
13 Comments
Only if you saved the seeds
Cross pollination does not effect the fruit of the original parent a female butternut squash flower pollinated by courgette pollen will still produce a buttetnut squash….but the seeds inside that butternut squash will grow into hybrid plants that produce a mystery fruit
That’s not how it works. The yellow ones are just overripe.
Cucumbers won’t cross pollinate with pumpkins. These cucumbers look like they have been on the vine too long, and anything with that yellow orange color probably won’t taste that great because they are on their way to being rotten.
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/faq/will-cucumbers-cross-pollinate-other-vine-crops
Cucumbers yellow as the age, as the seeds develop, and as they get bitter.
Unless the seeds planted to grow the plant were cross-pollinated, these are probably just regular cucumbers. Cross-pollination only affects seed genetics and the next generation of plants. If the flowers these grew from were cross pollinated, the fruit from those flowers would still look like normal cucumbers, but if the plants that grew from the seeds would be hybrids.
These are just overripe. Not a cucumber/pumpkin cross.
Wowzer! That’s so cool!
These are normal looking pickling cukes.
They’re overripe cucumbers.
Only keep those yellow cukes if you want seeds, and then you want them to ripen completely on vine.
Haha not exactly. You just let them get too ripe
No
Not possible. Your cukes just went past.
Pumpcumbers?