'Autumn Glow' Butternut

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Oct 30, 2007

Has anyone grown it? It's a golden butternut released by Burpee in 2000. It's pretty, but I haven't found much on how it tastes or performs. http://www.burpee.com/category/vegetables/squash-butternut+.do

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Nov 06, 2007

Anybody?

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glendalekid Tuscaloosa, AL(Zone 7b) Nov 06, 2007

Hi,

Wish I could help you, but I've never grown it. Sorry.

Good luck,

Karen

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Nov 06, 2007

Okay, then it's up me! I'll try to grow some out and get some pictures into the plant files. It seems to be relatively unknown.

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glendalekid Tuscaloosa, AL(Zone 7b) Nov 07, 2007

Right now I think there is only one butternut cultivar in the PF. So PF definitely could use added info on other cultivars.

Karen

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Farmerdill Augusta, GA(Zone 8a) Nov 07, 2007

Agree, pictures and comments are really needed. While there are seven butternut types with pictures only Waltham and Burpee's Butterbush are mainstream butternuts. I have grown Butterbush, it produces ok and tastes like a typical butternut. It is a small fruit. Autumn Glow is also a compact plant, likely from the same breeding line.

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Nov 07, 2007

That's what I was thinking. They probably crossed something like Butterbush with one of the experimental precocious yellow squash that were released in the 80s and 90s.

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LTilton Glen Ellyn, IL(Zone 5b) Nov 09, 2007

What I would like is information on disease resistance.

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Farmerdill Augusta, GA(Zone 8a) Nov 09, 2007

Autumn Glow was trialed at OSU, but no mention of disease resistance.
http://franklin.osu.edu/hort/06VegTrialReport.PDF It is a Burpee introduction for home gardeners so Burpee has made no reference to its disease package. Butternuts in general are pretty trouble free, did you have a disease in mind?

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LTilton Glen Ellyn, IL(Zone 5b) Nov 09, 2007

Mildews were afflicting my butternuts this year.

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