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West Amwell, NJ

Anyone interested in free zucca gourd seeds from my 55 lbs. zucca gourd then email me at sunflower_info@yahoo.com

I'll let you know if I have any left and then give you my address. You send me a self-addressed stamped bubble pack. Of course, donations are welcomed. :)

Here are some pics
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Gallery/GalleryImg/zucca_gourd2_09_13_09.JPG
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Gallery/GalleryImg/zucca_gourd.JPG

1/22/2010 10:46:10 PM

Ohio

WOW that thing is huge, is that in the same family as like a Giant pear gourd?,, and im curious as to what the seeds look like out of that Zucca gourd?,, do they look like the long gourd seeds,which they also looks like the giant pear gourd seed?

What is that yellow warty gourd in the back ground of your first pic? that one looks neat as well.

Brooks

1/23/2010 4:19:02 AM

West Amwell, NJ

Zucca gourd seeds look just like long gourd seeds. Sometimes I've heard them called Zucca melons as well. I've read they were popular back in the 40's or 50's, but fell out popularity. I've heard they can grow 70 lbs. or more. I gave that thing almost zero care and it grew 55 lbs.
The yellow warty thing in the back ground in a giant English vegetable marrow. Bernard Lavery sent me a yellow strain a few years back. Sometimes they produce marrows almost white/light yellow. This type is the best keeping marrow I've seen. It's still sitting in my seed room right now. They will keep over a year. I took my marrow to the fair this past year, but I grew it the year before.

1/23/2010 4:49:40 PM

West Amwell, NJ

I just found this:

http://osoyoosmuseum.ca/agriculture_zucca.htm

1/23/2010 4:51:35 PM

Iowa

I was wondering where you got your seeds? If they were 100% zucca or crossed back with something else??

1/24/2010 5:12:40 PM

West Amwell, NJ

Seeds came from a grower in Germany. My zucca gourds looked just like the pictures I've seen of them on the internet; so i assume it didn't cross with anything. It was the only gourd I was growing this past year and no one else grows gourds nearby.

1/24/2010 11:17:46 PM

Ohio

sunflower,
I tried emailing you but it keeps bouncing back.
But i would love to try both of them seeds. I really like growing the different and Unique type gourds and pumpkins. I grow Ron Rahe's unusual cross's every year and they sure are fun to watch grow.

bosworthbrooks@yahoo.com

1/25/2010 5:05:51 AM

Nowhere

did u get my bubble pack brian ?????

2/20/2010 5:45:00 PM

West Amwell, NJ

The one you sent a while ago? First off, it's not a bubble pack, but a plain yellow mailer; so I have to supply the bubble wrap. Second, I asked it to be stamped. It took you 88 cents to mail your yellow mailer, but you only put 44 cents for return. You wrote a letter saying something like, let me know if you need more postage. It took 88 cents for an empty mailer, but a mailer full of seeds should only cost 44 cents. No wonder the post office is in financial difficulty!!!!
I told you to send me more postage and you wrote me back, "sorry, i will pay you for postage". That's the last I heard anything. I never received the extra postage; so your mailer is just sitting there and will continue to sit there until I do.

2/26/2010 11:50:30 AM

Nowhere

i figured u would send it ad i will pay postage....i cant send u postage if i dont know what it will cost.....44 cent postage was only because i was snowed in and had to walk to the po

2/26/2010 12:25:51 PM

Taylorsville, California

Funny Brian, same thing happened here from John Honaker,,yellow mailer without adequate postage, no bubble,,and this is all after his posts about having too many seeds and that he's throwing them away,,,,,,

2/26/2010 3:23:25 PM