Having problems with Spot Colour gradients

Hello All,
I have little experience in dealing with spot colours.  I'm trying to blend two spot colours for a print job.  Unfortunately the spot colour gradient (left image) does not blend like the process colour gradient (right image).  Instead they fade to a lighter colour in the center where they meet.  I'm sure someone out there can help as I think this is more of a technical issue that I am simply unfamiliar with.  Thank you in advance to all comments!
Hugues

Hello, i run into this all the time.
What you can do is actually make one spot color overprint (or darken, or multiply) on top of another one.
that will work,
What I see you have is one spot color at one end  and another spot color at the other, where they meet you get the "grey".
The 4/c gradient is a blend of the C<M<Y<K, inks.
I usually rant over the fact that Illustrator does not have an Ink Manager, to make a swatch of 2 (or more ) spotcolors.
As far as color gamut goes, 4/c color printing is so passe, right.
Till Adobe recognizes that printers print with more than the 4/c color space, hexacolor, opaltone, optimized 7, and 8 we just have to improvise.

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