Yeah, guilty..I like cucumber melon stuff..
but that just looks like an oversized cuke to me, with a squash beside it.
400 bucks,my patootie!

If you plant yellow squash and cucumbers too close together, you get ugly, mixed veggies!
They naturally cross-pollinate!
Yuck!

Originally posted by AccessDenied
Yeah, guilty..I like cucumber melon stuff..
but that just looks like an oversized cuke to me, with a squash beside it.
400 bucks,my patootie!

no, it is the real thing, i cut it open myself and tasted it. totally cucumber/honeydew.
no hoax

I like the way the guy has posted about twenty photos of what the cucmelon looks like from all possible angles. It just looks like one of those 'apple cucumbers', you know the more round white variety...

Originally posted by Sloth
I like the way the guy has posted about twenty photos of what the cucmelon looks like from all possible angles. It just looks like one of those 'apple cucumbers', you know the more round white variety...

hey, i am not "the guy" and it is not an apple cucumber...whatever that is and i took as many pictures as i could post...without getting slammed by ebay.

$400!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!!??????????

You are freaking crazy!!! Now if you cut open the fruit and seeds were made of solid gold I might consider. But I will be totally surprised if you even get one bid.


And btw are you allowed to solicite here on ATS??(DONT KNOW HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT)

take the seeds and grow my own???? Would that even be possible? In theory if you tried to plant these seeds wouldn't they be sterile? I mean if not then I think you have found the missing link, and might want to sell them for $400,000,000.

If I am wrong I am sorry for my ignorance, but I assume that the same rules of biology would apply to plants as well.

Originally posted by JesterMan
take the seeds and grow my own???? Would that even be possible? In theory if you tried to plant these seeds wouldn't they be sterile? I mean if not then I think you have found the missing link, and might want to sell them for $400,000,000.

If I am wrong I am sorry for my ignorance, but I assume that the same rules of biology would apply to plants as well.

hhmm..okay because you would need two of the same plants? i'm sorry this is my first garden.
so what you are saying someone couldn't just buy the fruit and plant the seeds and get more honeycukes?

I would think not, but do not really know the answer to that myself. Like I stated, I am just assuming that what is good for animals in also good for plants.

You can cross breed a tiger and a lion and get a liger, but that liger cannot breed at all for it is sterile.

Does anyone know if this is true for plants as well?

I don't think I can stress this enough. Being the first year you have grown these cucumbers and honeydews you can not, I repeat, can not have a cross until next year.
I'll try to explain so you can understand it this time *since I wasn't really clear before*. Say for reference sake you have two plants that can cross-pollinate planted next to each other, a red tomato and a yellow tomato. The red tomato plant will produce red tomatoes all year long and the yellow tomato yellow fruit all year long *even if flowers were cross-pollinated*. But if you were to manually cross-pollinate the yellow tomato pollen onto the red tomato stigma the seeds from that particular fruit (*which will still be red because the mother plant was red*) will carry genetics of both parents in dozens of combination's of dominant and recessive traits. So if it were truly honeydew seed you were growing it would have been a honeydew fruit you picked.

Although unlikely, mutations may occur naturally, this could possibly be what you are looking at rather than the result of a cross-pollination. Such genetic mutations have given us the majority of the food we have today: Tomatoes were originally between the size of a blueberry and a grape.

While calling it a cross between a cucumber and a honeydew melon is likely incorrect, you do have a unique melon I'm not familiar with. It's darker green than honeydews and most other muskmelons. Have you contacted any seed suppliers about an identification?

*edits between stars*

[edit on 27-7-2008 by beaverg]

Are you, or are you not the one selling it on ebay?
By posting it here..in my opinion..it IS soliciting.

Originally posted by AccessDenied
Are you, or are you not the one selling it on ebay?
By posting it here..in my opinion..it IS soliciting.

Most definitely this is soliciting. And most definitely this is neither conspiracy-related, nor current events.

At the very least this should be in BTS




To add to the discussion though, since I'm not a mod and do not have the entailing responsibilities, I want a taste! That sounds delicious

[edit on 7/27/2008 by iceofspades]

Originally posted by AccessDenied
Are you, or are you not the one selling it on ebay?
By posting it here..in my opinion..it IS soliciting.

you always were the mod wannabe weren't you?
that is the main reason you and i could never get along because you were always playing moderator. if it wasn't for that we agree on most other things.