I would treat them as male flowers and remove them all. That is what we do/have done on our plants and are regularly getting one or two female flowers each day too, which go on to produce the courgettes. All the straight stemmed flowers are males - the female flowers have a tiny courgette behind them which go on to grow into the courgettes that you want.
True @Guernsey Donkey2 about the flowers but there is no sign of females at all, it just seems a long time waiting, especially as we have been harvesting green ones for a few weeks. Also as it was a new variety didn't know if it was self pollinating or not.
There is something that doesn't look right to me about your yellow courgette. Not sure what it is, but the leaves don't look quite right or the way the flowers are formed, also the tendrils. I have grown loads of yellow courgettes over the years, but to me it doesn't look right! IMHO! I hope I'm wrong!
Well it's too late to plant anything else, so it will get the benefit of the doubt and continue to be allowed to grow and see what happens, will finish taking off male flowers I think.
The other thing I notice is that it is vining, and the pictures online do not show that type doing so. The pictures also show the male flowers looking "normal" not those strange spikey things, the very last thing is the leaves. they do not look like courgette leaves.
I really do not think those are flowers, I would say that plant has some genetic/viral deformity and will never do anything
Evidence/science for thinking that?
Find any flower on any courgette or squash that looks remotely like those green spikey things. As far as I know all courgette flowers are yellow/orange (hard skinned squashes are white) I'm pretty sure I have seen something similar before but I cannot remember where, and the internet is not helping.
Oh @Skandi you are working hard for me.😇 Its such a puzzle!!! Have grown courgettes for a few years now but always the green variety, which has always thrived and fruited well this may well put me off trying a different variety next year, I don't have room for experiments . Good job I am over run with cucumbers, but still waiting for toms to ripen.
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