Hi there! I’d love to trade for some spicebush, golden kiwi, guanillo, ancho and pasilla peppers! I have some beautiful seeds in small amounts I would be happy to trade:
ooh! Fantastic! What other kinds of seeds do you have? Wild Edibles, Cultivated Garden Veggies, Tree Crops, ect! Just list everything that’s edible!
I also forgot to add on Mexican Hawthorn (Crataegus mexicana) Seeds, one moment!
Interested in-
Wineberry
Black raspberry
Asian mulberry
I have to trade-
Yarrow, wild ohio field ecotype
White flat pumpkin, maxima squash, 2024 grown
Georgia candy roaster, maxima squash, 2024 grown
Unknown volunteer pig pen pumpkin, no water, almost no rain, 2024 grown
Going to seed maxima squash grex, 2023 & 2024
I can pm a more complete list of what I have in enough quantity to trade. Didn’t want to take over the thread.
Fantastic! I’ll pm you. Candy Roaster sounds good!
@VeggieSavage I am so excited to build up a seed collection so I can trade with you. I heard your interview with @ShaneS a few weeks ago and am trying some of your guerilla planting tactics. I just planted an all maxima pumpkin patch (6 varieties) in my friend’s front yard. 
I’m so fascinated by the maxima / moschata hybrids, and wonder if anyone has successfully crossed tetsukabuto and honeynut to get a fully fertile tetsu-style hybrid pumpkin.
That would be really awesome…
Come to think of it, I have a honeynut sitting on my counter, been there since late fall from a grocery purchase. Should I crack it and process the seeds to put together yet another hybrid cross attempt this year? I’ve already got tetsukabuto in my mix for planting soon…
@VeggieSavage you have an amazing list there! Is there anything you might be looking for from roughly SC Kansas area that I could find or forage seeds from? I’d love to trade if you’re open to that…
Wow. How many times have you tried? Do you know anyone who’s been successful?
That cantaloupe / nutmeg-y squash sounds amazing. Is it still legal to trade between the US and Canada? 
I haven’t tried yet. I had plans set up to do crosses last year but ended up on a mental and physical health rollercoaster that pretty much killed all gardening momentum for summer/fall. So I still have all those planned crosses to do (including Tetsukabuto back to moschatas and maximas, and a supposedly fertile F1 pepo x moschata hybrid that came in the 2024 Winter Pepo mix that I’ll be crossing with whatever I can, depending on whether it’s male sterile or not) So adding Honeynut would just be one more cross to add to the list, lol.
Unfortunately, I’m a bit of an oddball in my area, so I don’t personally know anyone who’s succeeded at making intentional hybrids.
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”)
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!
Wow. I read your longer post as well, and it seems like this method has a chance of achieving an interspecies cross, but its hard to tell if you’ve succeeded without planting and growing out all the resulting seeds, right?
I have no real seed collection as of yet. I did plant some clones of a possible old Mississippi-bred Eleagnus hybrid based on a Goumi in a few different places and will collect any seeds that appear. I bought some other eleagnus species seeds from Etsy and will try to germinate as many as I can for possible crossing trials. I planted 6 different maxima varieties (from seed packets and fruits) in a friend’s front yard, and 4 varieties of mexican grocery store maize kernels in my mom’s yard. My projects are all pretty random so far.
@NotFaeGardener if you still have hybrid squash seeds lying around that you don’t think you’ll be able to plant this year I’m sure I could find some place to plant a few of them!
I know for a fact I can get you groundcherries (have some wild ones that showed up in my herb garden a few years ago, and they’re tasty and prolific), Lambsquarters, and possibly Russian Olive (there’s a stand of them at a park I could probably forage from). I also have some sort of black nightshade (S. nigrum of some sort, I’m pretty sure) that I expect to pop back up near my greenhouse this year, if there’s any interest in that?
I’m going to open up that honeynut today and have it for dinner, so I should have some of those seeds to share soon. The pepo x moschata is only one seed, so nothing to share there. But the Tetsukabuto I think I have a few I could spare, too.
Indeed that’s the catch! I wish deer or Human beings didn’t cut off the fruit as it was ripening. I couldn’t find the fruit anywhere & it was such a clean cut, almost as if someone cut it cleaning off with a knife. But at least I confirmed that I can trick Maxima ovaries into accepting pepo pollen.
Oh Nice! Are these the ones used to make corn flour or actually the types used to pop as cornnuts? Aparently all the cornnut types also double as grain corn & vice versa. Seems all corn seeds are poppable but only Popcorn types puff out.
@NotFaeGardener That’s awesome! Yea save as many Groundcherries as you can! Take pictures of all the Lambsquaters or amaranths you find & save seeds! I want as much diversity as possible to domesticate lambsquaters/quinoa for their delicious greens.
Same with the Black Nightshade, exact species irrelevant as Solanum nigrum is a species complex meaning it’s either all 1 very diverse species with many subspecies/varieties or many very closely related species. Take pictues of your local Black Nightshade fruits, size & flavors can range all over the country & yours could very much be different form the ones I tried in Maryland which tasted like Grape x Tomato.
The types I found were for pozole (fat and triangular) or for tortillas (smaller and straighter). I also found some small blue kernels that don’t look like popcorn. Made hominy grits from them, which was quite good. I’m not sure what type makes the best corn nuts.
I ask cuz I’ve also found some mexican grain corn at a small mexican grocery store, I didn’t get them cuz the GTS Grain Corn had more diversity anyways & they were kind of pricey.
I’ve done the testing of Poping every corn variety here, These are what Cornnuts look like!
I had more pictures of the ripe fruits, but apparently I deleted them all after ID’ing them. So here’s the two I have of the leaves/unripe fruits. They were quite small, fruity (but not grape fruity) and a little tomato-y when ripe. The plant was almost 4’ tall and wildly productive, but I left most for the wildlife after confirming they were acceptably tasty. They should be germinating all over if they haven’t already… will have to go look.
Nice!!! Mine looked just like that one with the slightly winged stems.
The ripe fruits weren’t Bi-colored like this by any chance?
Just curious have you tried grafting Tomato Scions onto Black Nightshade weeds & vice versa yet?
