Awesome! What kinds of seeds do you have? What kinds interested you?
as for the Ninja/guerilla planting tactics, I’ve learned a very important Lesson. It’s all about Location! It will make or break your success at it.
From all the research I’ve done & the fact that I got pepo pollon to fertilize maxima ovaries, I’m convinced Making interspecies Cucurbita hybrids is EASY! It’s actually the first crop to do wide landracing with! Eventually I want to cross all 5 cultivated species of Squash I have like C. ficifolia x C. angyrosperma x C. maxima x C. moschata x C. pepo.
Ever Notice how every garden website that sells Tetsukabuto seeds mentions to plant it with a Buttercup/kabocha or Butternut? There’s a big reason why, being a interspecies hybrid it needs at least one of it’s parents to set fruit. This is a clue to how the cross was made in the first place.
I made a long post detailing how I plan to do it here : Viable Tri-species Cucubita Hybrid - #8 by VeggieSavage
In a nutshell, I trick Female flowers into accepting different species pollen by mixing it with it’s own & then repeat it until all hybridization barriers merge away.
Yes absolutely & unlike Tetsukabuto, Honeynut is stablized, meaning it can pollinate itself & doesn’t require 1 of it’s parent species (But having both parent species C. maxima & C. moschata pollen to mix with it will only help!).
Thank you! I was actually hoping to find someone from the great plains, cuz there’s a lot of really rare wild edibles in that region! (Many of them are edible “weeds”)
- Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe spp.) are found in that region, delicious wild edible Root crop!
- Breadroot or Prarie Turnip (Pediomelum spp.)
- Groundcherries (Physalis spp.)
- Groundplum (Astragalus spp.)
- Flower-of-an-hour (Hibiscus trionum)
- Amaranths (Amaranthus spp.)
- Lambsquaters (Chenopodium spp.)
- Goosefoots (Chenopodiastrum spp.)
- Kochia or Summer Cyperus (Bassia spp.)
- Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
- Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum)
Truly I could go on & on. Please take pictures of any plants or weeds you find I’m really good at wild plant/weed ID, you might find a new wild edible you never even knew that way.
Many of them may actually show up in your garden as weeds, so take pictures of those too!