2026 GTS Crop Species Grow Reports: Summer Squash (Cucurbita pepo)

[MaartenFoubert]

Hi,

Didn’t see a topic for Pepo for this year, so I created one (I apologize if this is duplicate).

I planted a lot of the offspring of last year’s Zeus earlier as it didn’t seem like there would be a late frost. And, of course, a day after the official last day of frost, the temperature briefly dipped too low.

On many of the seedlings, the first true leaf was damaged or destroyed:

The smaller seedlings survived fine (warmer earth protected it better from colder wind as it was closer to the soil):

I marked these untouched seedlings so I can judge them separately from the frost-afflicted seedlings

Maarten

[Suluye (Sly)]

I sowed my zucchini seeds on April 15th and here they are now! I have some ‘dark star’ dryfarmed zucchini in the first picture. I will cover some dark star female flowers and manually pollinate em to avoid crossing, saving seed separately to keep the trait strong and reincorporate in the years to come. Otherwise the rest will cross freely with the gts zucchini and hopefully introduce that capability into the offspring.