Thanks, everyone! Mine are getting fairly large now, and I was afraid it would be overly large and "tough", but like I said, I've never grown them before. I planted seeds in late March, they tolerated a couple of frosts and a snow in April. They are very vigorous and seem to be tough plants, but some of the squash are already about 8-9 inches long- still white/green in color. The produced and grew much faster than I expected :). Someone asked about Fall in Texas. We don't really have much Fall. We go from 100+ degrees at the beginning of Sept to cool spells coming in late September. Then it cools off slightly, but never really gets cold until late Nov. It's more like this: Winter consists of mild weather with occasional freezes, quickly warming up back to the 60's or 70's within a couple of days. Then Spring which is cool nights with days often getting up to the high 80's and 90's. Last June, we had consistent 100 degree days in the middle of the month which went into September. It's very unpredictable, but I generally grow a spring garden from March through June, and a winter garden from October until March. Mrs H

Let me take a shot at this. You said that it's a volunteer. Did you grow a couple of squash last year like a yellow and a zucchini, because I would say that it's a cross between the two. squash of the same type cross pretty easy, and It looks a lot like the cross I made once on purpose to see What it would become. The plant had the same semi vine habit and the fruit looked a lot the same though it was a lot more like a zuke not so short. the good news is it tasted pretty good and I keep the seed of the F1 cross so I could grow it every now and again and have been thinking of trying to stabilize it. I even named it. so I would say let it grow and see if you like it.

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I save a lot of squash seed and it does cross pollinate. I only save seed from the maximas, as even the mixes are dense, sweet and perfectly good. I hand pollinate them which helps prevent crosses, but not 100% of the time. Squash of the same type will cross pollinate with others from the same family. There are four most common families: 1)pepo (acorn, large pumpkin, zucchini, spaghetti), 2)maxima (hubbard, buttercup, turban and lots more), 3)moschata (butternut, sweet potato squash), 4)mixta (cushaw). They will cross pollinate within the same family but will not cross pollinte with a squash/pumpkin from another family. Generally 50 meters is recommended between them to prevent cross pollination. So if your neighbor grows zucchini, it will cross with your spaghetti squash. I have a lot of seed from c. Maxima squash, mostly hubbard and ambercup. Some will be crosses between the two, which are excellent! If you'd like some, I'll be happy to send it to you, but for an SASBE, not a trade. I really don't need anymore seed! :-)