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5 acres is quite a project. We have grown butternut squash in our garden for nearly 15 years in a row. Our first plant was a volunteer that surprised us in our main vegetable garden in the back yard. A product of composting the seeds from a road-side stand squash. The squash that resulted were excellent so we saved seeds and planted them in a flower bed in the front yard to separate them from our zucchini. We have grown two or three butternut squash vines producing about 12-25 squash every year in that location. We critique each as we eat it and only save seeds from the best tasting individual fruit. We like to think we have improved the result by hygrading the seeds, but in truth, the first squash was excellent also. We definitely have made them bigger. The ones we grow are about 3X the size of ones we commonly see in stores.In my teen years, I kept five acres of pumpkins under cultivation
I count 6 or 7 cylindrical tower cells. Depends on if you count the darker less transparent base. I am not a plant physiology guy. Just my guess...I'm wondering what the three or four-segment configuration of these prickers, as shown in your images, means. Are we looking at multiple cells?
Good point. Since StereoPhoto Maker allows frames, I went ahead and put them in. Apparently frame width is in pixels as photos starting with higher resolution images produced thinner frames. Probably should have downsized the parent images of the 2x stereo to get a thicker frame... but I think it may be enough.For the first couple of stereos, I found myself wanting a frame. The last one works OK as is.
