I have been doing blender since January of this year. I am having this problem with my jackolantern mesh with the orange merging with the green, and wondered whats the best way to fix it? I tried UV unwrapping, and deleting and re bridging but nothing works. Your help will be great!
This looks like it could be the result of subdivision with bad topology. If the stem’s polygon structure isn’t made of even quads, it could stretch in weird ways.
Exactly part of solving a modelling problem about mismatching or that “it doesn’t look right”, always check and revisit your references (or improvise, adapt when is not that simple, like modelling something that you can’t find good detailed photos online or when don’t have the object in your hands) .