[gobs]

Ok chaps and chapesses, my apologies for the delay in getting the answer, but been extreeeeeeeemly busy this week.

Its official......... it is some kind of squash / pumpkin. Here are a couple of pictures





It was very hard to cut, smells similar to a cut buttenut squash, and is obviously not ripe.

What I can't understand is that it was planted inside a greenhouse (coz I was told it was a watermelon), six weeks before my own pumpkins got planted outside, got watered daily along with the Tomatoes, fed weekly and is still not ripe!! The pumpkins which were outside got no extra water or feed (other than that which mother nature gave them), attained a size about 1" smaller radius than this critter, and turned orange by the middle of September. Can anyone explain this?

Nikki

Any prizes for guessing right?

     

Well, depending on variety they have dif ripening time frames.Ready 90-120 days of planting out sort of thing. Note range!

[Nikkithefoot]

Well done gobs, I understand the different ripening times, but this was planted 6weeks (42 days approx) before and picked about 4ish weeks (28days) after my outside pumpkins. Thats the bit that is confusing me. Still I s'pose gardening is like that, always throwing up strange happenings.

Moral of this story?





Don't believe what you are told about plants!

[gobs]

Yeah, but then there was no summer, not where I am anyway.