Some genetic diversity in the moschata patch, all coming from the selection of “the best of the best” of last year: all offsprings from long storage and excellent tasting squash, with usual butternut colored flesh to green and brown flesh!!! 
It’s such a joy looking at those 
I didn’t post it in the right place 
those are of today : 17th of August… 2025 !!!
Some of those look like they definetely have mixta heritage based on colouring. Especially the one in picture 13 seems like first generation of mixta skin that popped up for me, which was F2. After that they have usually been more dark green and less white like the one in picture 3 and some others. I also have many different shapes and colours, although not as much as there aren’t many that had the time this year. One is almost patty pan shaped with mixta skin. It’s also earliest of the ones with “normal” flowering late in the plant and with current forecast will definetely make seeds. If the forecast remains or gets better, there is a change that I’ll get more seeds than what I was hoping for just a couple of weeks ago. No more in the early flowering though, but I did try to pollinate all fruits with some of the early flowering.
Lunch at your house, wish I was closer to dine on squash with you!!!
It still 2025 and not 2024 but don’t want to mess up with 2025 main thread :
That was the 13 you saw in previous post :
Now it’s how it was at taste selection (2 fruits from that same plants), with a relatively white skin :
Very white compared to every others actually, as can be seen in there :
@JesseI or anyone: do you have additionnal cues for identifying a mixta cross? It’s getting interesting now that this one out of hundreds did qualify in taste selection: very good taste, high yielding, and relatively good health indicators at harvest (4 on my 1 to 5 scale)
Thanks!
Mine are most likely from 1/4 mixta cross and the mixta might have been diluded further. But I do expect that most of my moschata have some degree of mixta in them. So you might see some signs in some of them, but likely all have some. I don’t know if there are really any way of regonizing the crosses, whether they are new or older lines, besides typical mixta colouring. Whether it is even typical just to mixta I don’t know. Since moscata and mixta look so similar and cross easily it’s hard to say whether some moschatas without known mixta haven’t inherited that from some distant mixta cross. I noticed my mixta cross only on the second year after cross, but looking back another moscata variety made atypical pear shaped fruits the year before that, which must have crossed with butternut waltham. Then the year that I realized the cross I had typical light coloured butternuts, dark skinned (from the variety that had crossed with mixta) and one very much mixta looking. Comparing it to mixtas it wasn’t exactly the same colour as it’s mixta grandmother, but it had more white than the mixta looking fruits in the subsequent years which tend to have more dark green and less white with less contrast between the colours as in mixta or the first mixta looking cross. Still they are quite different looking to typical moschatas and so I expect that it comes from mixta. First years I din’t have anything other growing that had anything even close to that kinda colouration, so that reasonable to assume that rather than random resessive trait that appears. But impossible to say for sure It’s more of a curiosity for me and likely sign that mixta is somewhere there. I haven’t seen anything as white as yours. Mine have never been like that, but I can’t remember how the original mixta turned in storage (or if I stored it for long). I do know that some mixta are like that.
