We have a mutant

[bunn]

Pumpkin Racer F1 has come up all distorted and peculiar. As it is an F1 hybrid, which I think is produced by crossing two lines that are more or less completely uniform, and is supposed to produce a very uniform vigorous F1 generation, I *think* that means that this is a genuine freak-of-nature mutant! Cool!

I am not sure if it will survive to produce pumpkins, but I'm going to see if it will.

Also, if you have no milk, using tinned coconut milk in coffee produces a strange, but not unpleasing result.

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

It looks a long way off the usual norm. All the leaves are sort of stuck together. But it might be something it grows out of, of course. If it continues to be very weird in shape, I shall decide it is a mutant: if it grows out of it, maybe it's just gone to one end of a spectrum of pumpkinny shapes.

I'm not sure how varied the genes of pumpkins are, but I think they are one of those odd plant families that will have it away with all sorts of different plants, so I suppose it's possible this one is a result of some sort of propagation accident.

Black coffee. Blurg.