One and One Half Cents Worth

Maxima and moschata will cross. The result next gen. is usually a solid
"croquette ball". I have had crosses with pepo and maxima as well. The
explaination is right with your theory Russ. 
In our farm, we have maxima and moschata pumpkins as well as maxima,
moschata, pepo squash.
As hard as we try, some goofy stuff is bound to happen.
Good to see a banana squash fan! We do real well with them as part of our
specialty food market here out East. As a Colorado Boy, I grew up with them
and still grow some for my restaurant clients here in Hoosierland.
I did mispost earlier however. I crossed butterCUP (maxima) not butterNUT
(moschata) with an AG (maxima). I am getting my nuts and cups confused. My
Dear Wife will attest to that.
If you research the cross with maxima and moschata, you will see that it has
been done.
We giant pumpkinless folk now have time to talk Cucuburtia. 
A 75lb. Banana is a nice fruit!
Steve Haberman 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Russ Stokes
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:11 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Two Cents Worth

I am not a geneticist, but I believe that in the Cucurbita family AG's will 
only cross with other C. Maxima types i.e.,  AG x Banana Squash.  A 
Butternut squash is  a Cucurbita moschata which will only cross with 
moschata types, i.e., Butternut x Cheese pumpkin.

It could be explained that the seeds of a Butternut squash that had been 
grown in a AG patch came out looking different than what it should have 
been, is because of a possible cross pollination with a different moschata 
type or the parent could have been a hybrid cross and its off spring 
resorted back to some distant cross made at the hands of a plant breeder.

I do think that it is interesting and valuable that people growing AG's come

up with all these different crosses.  The reality is that AG's today are not

the AG's that H. Dill had when he introduced the Atlantic Giant pumpkin. 
Out West where I grew up, Banana Squash is much desired by stores, the 
bigger the better, because they slice them up and sell them wrapped in 
cellophane as individual pieces.  One time I grew a Banana Squash that 
weighed 75lbs.  The store owner loved it because all he had to do was cut 
and slice with very little waste.  Since AG is a maxima and so is Banana 
squash, who knows, a 500 lb. squash might just be what the store owner is 
looking for.....

Russ 

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