Gardner Grows 'Cuculoupe' (Cucumber - Cantaloupe HYBRID)

[matcom]

:scared: what's next? Gays marrying Box Turtles? :scared:

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HOUMA, La. -- It's a cucumber. No, it's a cantaloupe.

Actually, it's a cuculoupe. Karen Dusenbery said a weird cucumber-cantaloupe hybrid is emerging in her Louisiana garden.

She planted cucumbers and cantaloupes. Between the rows something new appeared. She said her half-dozen veggie-melons are about a yard long, a few inches across and have a waxy, yellow skin.

She said the flesh inside is firm and yellow, but tastes more like a cucumber than a cantaloupe.

One Louisiana State University plant expert isn't surprised. He said cucumbers and cantaloupes come from the same genetic family.

Dusenbery said she's saved some of her cuculoupe seeds and can't wait to see what grows next year.

http://www.wftv.com/foodnews/9496465/detail.html

[wildhorses]

1. ok....that is just weird...and I am too tired this morning to click

on the link
:hi:

[matcom]

2. that's the whole story

:hi:

[wildhorses]

3. well...sometimes this stuff is just kinda eerie to me...

like maybe revelations is right afterall:shrug:



sorry, when I am tired my brain gets all kinda numb

[peekaloo]

4. nourished by all that flood water?

we must put an end to similar fruit/vegetable marriages for the sanctity of our salads!

[NV Whino]

5. Well said

[WoodyTobiasJr]

6. My God! What's Next?!?!?

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!!

[txwhitedove]

7. Humm, considering oil, chemicals & toxins in floodwaters of...

H.Katrina, it is probably a....MUTANT!!!

[XemaSab]

8. That's not uncommon

The squashes in my mom's yard miscegenated, and she basically has given up on them.

The squashes that grow there now have two or more of the following parents: cucumber, honeydew, zucchini, pumpkin, crookneck, butternut, gourd, watermelon, and canteloupe.

Needless to say, they all taste like crap.

It's really messed up.

[anarch]

14. haaha! "Needless to say, they all taste like crap."

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

22. Well yeah

They're all either bitter or flavorless.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I'm growing melons that are 2 ft long +, skinny, and taste like cukes

Cucumbers are cucumis sativus, melons are cucumis melo. There are melons marketed to home gardeners in hot areas as Armenian cucumbers. They taste like cukes, have weird pale green skins, and are naturally about 1.5 to 2 ft long and about 1 inch in diameter although if they aren't harvested they change grow much longer.

Looks like Ms. Dusenbery just found out about cross pollination.

[OnionPatch]

10. This is not at all unusual or un-natural

It's simple reproduction. If you want to save your seeds, any seed saving book or article will tell you not to plant any cucurbits near each other (pumpkins, cucumber, squash, etc.) My garden is not big enough to do that so I buy new seed each year but I often find little "volunteer" vines popping up and every year it's something new.

Last year I had a Punkini, which was a zucchini crossed with a pumpkin. This year I'm getting something that looks like a cross between peter pans and yellow squash from seeds that stray.

[matcom]

11. IT IS THE RAPTURE!!

:bounce:

[Gormy Cuss]

12. Oh yeah, one other thing Matcom

When I saw the post subject I thought it was story about a town in Mass.
:+

[OnionPatch]

13. Yeah, and why didn't I get an article about my punkini?

Probably because I live in California, the rapture certainly isn't coming here!!!!

[Mrs.Matcom]

17. Rapture??

you bet! can you imagine the pleasu...um, er, ah...never mind :spank: :blush: I'm a baaaaaaaaad girl :D

[matcom]

18. LMAO!!

hey everyone! Mrs Matcom is HORNY! :D

:woohoo:

[Mrs.Matcom]

19. hmmm

not saying much for you if I get excited over produce }( LOL!!!

[matcom]

20. DOH!

:rofl:

[underpants]

15. *PICTURE*

[matcom]

16. YES!

that is EXCELLENT!

[Deep13]

21. Qumquats, now there's a weird fruit. nm