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Courgette Flowers
Paddy5
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in Fruit & veg
Help please !!!! My courgette plants are looking really healthy with lots of flower buds. When the flowers get to a reasonable size they seem to just rot and fall off. What is wrong with my plants ? Am I doing something wrong. I have fed them and watered them.
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Are they male or female flowers Paddy?
Male flowers usually appear first. They are a big yellow flower on a thin stalk.
A week or two later, the female flowers start to appear as well. The flower is the same, but behind the flower you can see a small courgette ready to start.
Once you've got both male and female flowers, the courgettes should start to form, so long as they are being pollinated.
Is it in the open ground?
Billericay - Essex
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They are big flowers on a thin stem with no sign of a courgette. There seems to be a number of flowers further down the plant. They are in a container. So is there still hope ?
So long as the container is a big container and the flowers are being visited by bees and other insects you should have female flowers appearing soon. You can easily tell the difference
The flowers on yours are male at the moment - in a week or two you should start to get female flowers like these-
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thank you - fingers crossed. I just love courgettes.
I'm getting 1 or 2 every day from mine now.
I water it every day sometimes twice in hot weather, feed it once a week and a seaweed drench once a week and it seems happy.
Good luck with yours
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.