This was my first year growing Moschata and im in love with how no fuss the majority were. I’ve just started landracing Maxima as well but not so good a head start it seems as I have just one squash from dozens of maximas.
I am excited to see what pollen they recieved next year.
I got one squash from my Moschata’s this year. Made pie from it for thanksgiving and am hopeful that will be a good thing. I think I should have thinned early and vigorously. Instead I planted far too many home saved seeds too close together and let the plants outcompete themselves. Seed of the one survivor is drying still. I have had some incredible squash years after really bad one survivor years. One squash can make a lot of seeds and so if your one maxima squash got pollen from several other plants and has viable seed it could bode really well for next year.
Thats what I’m hoping, I have a really delicious maxima I grew 2 years back but it was a different setting, much more sun. If this sole survivor turns out to have exceptional shade tolerance, I’ll be doing some manual crosses with my delicious maxima squash. They have a lot of morphological similarities so I might get the perfect combo of flavor, shape/size, and diverse genetics. Im not getting my hopes up yet though.
