Plant ID

[Man]

These are growing like crazy from our old compost area. The look like small watermons but smell exactly like cucumbers. Not something we would have ever discarded in that area? Just some wild gourd that a bird dropped?

[wickll]

Looks like a smell melon. https://agrobaseapp.com/united-states/weed/smellmelon

[txtimetravler]

Coyote gourd?

[Draco]

Buffalo gourd.

[Man]

Buffalo gourd.

This is what I originally thought but the seeds alignment is different.

[JonBoy]

These are growing like crazy from our old compost area. The look like small watermons but smell exactly like cucumbers. Not something we would have ever discarded in that area? Just some wild gourd that a bird dropped?

No clue but the insides look a lot like cucumber too

[Muddy Bud]

My grandpa used to call those pepinos de monte. Which means wild cucumbers. They grow a lot in South Texas.

[BlackHogDown]

Just searched Wild Cucumber and google returned "Creeping cucumber."

https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/10/creeping-cucumber.html

EDIT: MuddyBud beat me to it. Evidently the black/purple, ripe fruit are NOT to be eaten. "Very powerful laxative"

[Man]

Just searched Wild Cucumber and google returned "Creeping cucumber."

https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/10/creeping-cucumber.html

EDIT: MuddyBud beat me to it. Evidently the black/purple, ripe fruit are NOT to be eaten. "Very powerful laxative"

Funny thing is that those are what we grew in that same exact spot last year.
These do not have the same leaf pattern and of course are 10 times the size. Maybe I created a hybrid of some sort.

[Pushbutton2]

Just searched Wild Cucumber and google returned "Creeping cucumber."

https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/10/creeping-cucumber.html

EDIT: MuddyBud beat me to it. Evidently the black/purple, ripe fruit are NOT to be eaten. "Very powerful laxative"

[emoji848]Wondering if this would be a natural alternative to GoLYTELY[emoji2400].... [emoji3061]

[Dusty Britches]

Looks like the gourds from my passion flower vines.

[Goodfellah]

Mexican miniature watermelon.

https://www.localharvest.org/blog/48630/entry/everything_you_wanted_to_know5