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FthomatoFthomato Posts: 5
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Could someone please give me some info on what is going on here, I bought a pack of a few cucumber seeds I dont have the packaging anymore, but have grown cucumbers in previous years with no problems. This time they have been growing ball type fruit, of which I removed the first few as I thought they had not been properly pollenated, continued to pollinate myself and eventually the bees came to help. The internet hasn't been much help and people I ask all try to tell me they're melons etc, but I know I bought cucumber seeds. Any help will be appreciated. 
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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,813
    Looks like Eight Ball F1 courgettes. If you didn't buy them deliberately then it is a mix up at the seed seller.

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,488
    Yes, agree, definitely a round courgette!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,721
    Yes that is neither a melon nor a cucumber. I agree it's some type of courgette.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,228
    Last year bought yellow courgettes and they turned out to be yellow squash, but both had the same name.
  • HouseFinchHouseFinch Posts: 328
    I have been pruning back my pumpkins today, and sorry to tell you, but....those look a lot like pumpkins....Is it possible you had any seed in your compost?
  • HouseFinchHouseFinch Posts: 328
    Developing pumpkin:Developing cucumber (leaves are much smaller and have a very different shape from pumpkin)
  • HouseFinchHouseFinch Posts: 328
    Courgette Leaves are very different than pumpkin. The developing courgette looks a lot thinner/smaller and more green than a developing pumpkin. Sorry I don't have any at the moment, just unopened flowers.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,957
    I find that different courgette varieties can have quite different leaf shapes.
    Yours @HouseFinch are quite ‘finely cut’ but mine (taken this morning as the sun came up) are more like those in the OP’s post


    Mine are the variety ‘Romanesco’.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,488
    I’ve never grown pumpkins but aren’t they vines with curly tendrils to cling on? Can’t see any of those on the OP’s photo, so still think it’s a courgette. Doesn’t really matter tho, as either way, it’s not a cucumber!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,957
    Whatever it is I’d try cooking and eating it. If it’s a courgette it’s turning into a marrow 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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