I planted cucumbers and honeydew melons in the same row next to eachother, today I picked the first fruit any of these plants has offered. It looked like a weird squash at first but I was certain I planted the squash on the other end of the garden. I cut the fruit open and it looked like a small honeydew on the inside but the flesh was the color and texture of a cucumber.
It had a strong cucumber fragrance and it tasted like a sweet cucumber.

Has anyone else experienced this/ How do I keep it from happening/
I mean this new fruit is cool but I rather have cucumbers and honeydews as they should be.

Fathom! You created a cu-dew! [honeycumber?] That's amazing! I wonder if it has the fruit longevity of a cucumber.

What were the seeds like? It really does look squash-like, I agree, except I don't see any strings in it, or whatever that squashy feature is called.

COOL!

Nice

If it tastes good, go to the market and bank out on it!

that sounds awesome. I'd love to try it

if they're rare, you should keep a few of them growing in your garden.

Originally posted by astronomine
Nice

If it tastes good, go to the market and bank out on it!

oh crud, i threw the seeds away!.
going to look for them in the trash...brb

Might be worth trying to segregate it from everything else, pollinator-wise. We are pollinator deficient down here. I have to manually pollinate papayas.

Hard to have respect for a lazy fruit.

I think they are both members of the curcurbit family.
What you have generally would not happen until the second generation of plants.
The same will happen if you plant, say, jalapenos next to bells. i.e. the current crop will not provide hot bells or sweet jalapenos, but be careful if you seed over to next growing season.
Interesting bit of gardening in any case.

Originally posted by LAUGHING-CAT
I think they are both members of the curcurbit family.
What you have generally would not happen until the second generation of plants.
The same will happen if you plant, say, jalapenos next to bells.

crud! that is exactly what i have, bells next to jalapenos! a whole row of them.

Wow , interesting. Did not know these mixes were possible. Now I want to try it,lol

Originally posted by beaverg
If what you have is some sort of cross from previous crops then it's likely an F1 hybrid and it's seeds won't produce the same fruit so don't worry if you don't get them back.

I forgot to mention that it is a first crop for this garden. it is brand new.

Makes you wonder what else is possible...

I'm sure you could mix most root crops like this.... carrot-radish or turnip-beet hybrids.

Potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers are all members of the same family... not sure if you could cross-breed a plant that grows hot tomatoes with potato-like roots perhaps?

Maybe "Iceberg spinach"? (crunchy yet healthy!)


[edit on 7/18/2008 by Yarcofin]

Checked my garden this evening and noticed three more of these guys sprouting, anyone want to try one? u2 me a mailing address and i will send you one free of charge. first 2 replies get a fruit.

edit to add, U.S only please don't want to ship overseas.

[edit on 18-7-2008 by Fathom]

You've created genetically modified crops! Congratulations!

Originally posted by Johnmike
You've created genetically modified crops! Congratulations!

No she hasn't produced a genetically modified crop at all. She has a pure natural hybridisation between two species as can occure in nature.

Genetic modification is the forced change of a single species DNA adding to it an unatural / synthetic modified gene.

One happens in nature through such freaky occurences, the other is artificial and man made frankenstein food.