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Thoughts on yellow courgettes

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Out this morning and found I had missed a flower, so this is what these male looking ones turn into. Totally different than my male green courgette flowers, but similar to the female ones on the greens.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Looks a bit frillier than the male flowers on my courgettes ... a bit like the flowers on the pattypan squashes I grew the other year ... maybe some of the cross-breeding that has been done to produce a yellow fruit has some more 'squash' type ancestry ... I'd be happy to wait and see what I get ... however it may be that there was some cross-pollination at the seed producers' field and sometimes this can result in a bitter tasting fruit ... if this is the case at least you've got a photographic record to show them.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    It's a very cucumber looking plant @Dovefromabove, I wouldn't mind seeing what the fruit look like if only it would produce some!🙄

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well goodness me so it is ... if I'd seen it looking like that earlier ... that doesn't look like a courgette plant ....  quite exciting really .... give it a good dose off tomato feed and  keep us informed ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNhVYWAdvw

    lol


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    edited August 2018
    Thats what its been getting fed on but not too often as no fruit yet, so will keep on posting.😀 Just noticed the giff, one of my favourite films.😁
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    No, the plant doesn't look like my courgettes or squash either, so it will be interesting to see just what (if anything) comes of this plant purplerallim.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Well I've just seen Monti's yellow courgettes on GW, and it's official mind do not look normal!!!!
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    hmm 3 petals? and a lovely pretty flower. If you just showed me the plants I would think cucumber with those leaves and tendrils but the flower is way to large. I will just have to wait with you and everyone else to see what it is.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    WE HAVE DEVELOPMENTS!!! @Dovefromabove,  @Guernsey Donkey2 and @Skandi. Out this morning taking off more male flowers( they still keep coming) and this has grown. Next to it on the leaf is a removed male flower, but this is definitely a fruit. It looks more squash than courgette, will I have any problems with it being three foot off the ground as have never grown more than cucumbers and courgettes before. All help gratefully received. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oooh how exciting ... that looks a bit like a butternut ... but I have seen others that shape ... can't for the life of me remember their name   tho'

    You may get some ideas for giving a bit of extra support from this article

    https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/how-to-grow-squashes-vertically/s

    Keep us informed  bounce

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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