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I bought a couple of packets of butternut squash from a company in East Anglia over the Internet. They were supposedly Barbara, an F1 butternut. As the picture shows .. they are definitely not Barbara. The fruits are relatively small, just bigger than a tennis ball.

Anybody got any ideas what they are?

Thanks.

I've got some Autumn Crown that look just like that - but there are loads that look like that when smaller tbh

Plot 18,

I should have made it clearer. "Just larger than a tennis ball" .. this is as big as they get. There are lots of them.

It is not Autumn Crown.

Thanks.

Brian

How frustrating!    What else do the company sell, it might cut down the possibilities. 
Barbara seeds are very expensive too.
What about Buffy Ball?

Don't recognise it myself, I had a packet of supposedly veg spaghetti that are quite clearly patty pan now they have grown and set fruit.. most annoying.

Quote from: Digeroo on August 29, 2017, 08:16:05
How frustrating!    What else do the company sell, it might cut down the possibilities. 
Barbara seeds are very expensive too.
What about Buffy Ball?

Yup looks like Buffy Ball if it's a small one :)

Digeroo,

it might well be Buffy Ball. Thanks for that.

I had already checked the squashes that this company offered and there was nothing in any way similar to what I have.

Re saddad's comment, my personal view is that the general reliability of seed suppliers has gradually been going downhill. One wonders just how much some of them do to ensure the quality of the products that they sell, particularly where the seed comes from some far and distant land. Are they simply acting as middlemen? Seemingly, my squash seed came from Japan.

I grew something that looked similar a couple of years ago, it was a compact, container squash called Squashkin, it was rubbish.