Growing the Winter Melon

We planted lots of cucumbers and other veggies.   There is one "cucumber" plant that looked slightly different from the others.   Could it be a Winter Melon plant?   Last time we were successful in growing one from the seeds was 40 plus years ago.  Could we be so lucky to get one seed sprouted this year?

Here is a photo taken in 1979 with our white kitten Pom Pom sitting on the last Winter melon.  It was before I had rabbits, it's like more than a lifetime ago.
 

This sure does not look like a cucumber.   It's round, it's fuzzy.

Definitely not the regular cucumber.

Bees like the nectar.

Sure helps the pollination.

 

Now it looks a bit like the Winter Melon, but still ???