Tetsukabuto croce

[Adrian]

One of my plant of Buttercup x (blue of hungary x (blue of hungary x tetsukabuto))seem stranger.I don't know if the pollen will be compatible with my moschamax plants.   

[Adrian]

Her internodes seem very shorts
The collar seem very thin

[Adrian]

Two F2 between ((violino rugosa x waltham) F2) x (violino rugosa x tetsukabuto)

[Mica Winnower]

Those look good. In terms of fruit, the first picture looks more like a typical C.moschata, but the second picture just 'feels' a little bit more like the tetsukabuto ancestor than the first.
Has this generation been able to produce pollen?

How do you think you will move forward from here in your future plans for this line?

[Adrian]

Yes they all produced pollen!
The plant of the second picture is the plant who producted the most male flowers.

[Adrian]

Third F2 between ((violina x waltham)F2)x(violina x tetsukabuto)F2

[Adrian]

(Violina x waltham)F2 x (violina x tetsukabuto) F2 third F2


Blue kury x (buttercup x blue kury x blue kury x tetsukabuto)

[Adrian]

Lasts news
Squashs of the year
1-2-3-4 F2 of (violino rugosa x waltham)F2 x (violino rugosa x tetsukabuto)F2

5 blue Kury x (buttercup x blue kury x blue kury  x tetsukabuto)

6 Unknow issue of a seed of buttercup x blue kury x blue kury  x tetsukabuto) x unknow but the fruit seem at a moschata.The plant was thin with very courts inter-nodes, the pedoncle was long and thin.

[Thomas Pic]

Hi, building up landraces the way Joseph does, last winter I have bought 4 strains of Tetsukabuto and equivalent (Iron cup, Maukai, and Shiatsu), all looking really really similar to Tetsukabuto. I actually had no perticular intentions behind that, just willing to see how it will show up.
Nonetheless, I have separated my 10 plants of each in 2 places : 1 in my moschata patch, one in my maxima, all oriented long storage, under first year of heavy selection for germination and vegetation vigour at early stage, in order to go to direct sowing post crushing my winter cover crops during May.
So I'll have seeds of each, I can't tell who's the daddy, but if you want some let me know. Could upload pictures later.

[Adrian]

Hi Thomas Pic,
Enjoy to see the expériences of others gardeners!
Grow tetsukabuto at the middle of a patch a is for me the better thatchou can do it.The tetsukabuto plant will automatically selected the mosts fertiles fruits (the best pollinisated and the most compatible parent).

The firsts years with thoses cross are often difficults.

[Thomas Pic]

Thanks Adrian!
Here is how these look like right now:
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Sorry I can't find a way to insert a pic in here!?! Can someone help me?. You'll find a piccture of them down at the end of this post, with ficifolias and kiwanos around, as of today: https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/direct-seed-exchange-among-eu-members-2024-2025/3037/21?u=thomaspicard

I'll open them around the 1stvof April. If some wants randomly pollinated Tetsu squashes with either moschatas or maximas please let me know.

[Adrian]

A old seed of 2022 has accepted to germinated.
Unfortunately the cotyledons stays yellow.
It seem good for you?
She is inder a growlight with spectrum of 6200kelvin and 17000 lux of light.
How can i help ed the cotyledons to take more green?

[Adrian]

It seem in progress

[Thomas Pic]

Hi, building up landraces the way Joseph does, last winter I have bought 4 strains of Tetsukabuto and equivalent (Iron cup, Maukai, and Shiatsu), all looking really really similar to Tetsukabuto. I actually had no perticular intentions behind that, just willing to see how it will show up.
Nonetheless, I have separated my 10 plants of each in 2 places : 1 in my moschata patch, one in my maxima, all oriented long storage, under first year of heavy selection for germination and vegetation vigour at early stage, in order to go to direct sowing post crushing my winter cover crops during May.
So I'll have seeds of each, I can't tell who's the daddy, but if you want some let me know. Could upload pictures later.

Got those seeds out for about 2 weeks from those crazily long storage squashes!!! None of these was even slightly damaged after a 6-7 months storage.

So each of those tens of random crosses are in separate bags. Some are 3/4 maximas, others moschatas, and noted as such.. I'll do direct seeding of these shortly. Breeding strategy still to be defined.

Got seeds for people in Europe willing to work on that

[Thomas Pic]

Got seeds for people in Europe willing to work on that

And by "that" I think primarily about 2 different lines of thoughts:
- breeding for ultra long storage with excellent eating qualities (may it be in moschata or maxima)
- breeding for creating an intermediate form, may it be a bridge between the 2 species.