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    butternut squash problems

    Hi can anyone help. I have been growing several butternut plants this summer, and despite watering them regularly, every fruit has shrivvled up once it got to a large size.

    Some have bloosom end rot, but the ones that grown on, then go soft and shrivvled

    any help would be appreciatted
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    are they actually being pollunated. I have fruits that grow to about 2 inches long but then dye because they have been pollunated.

    I hand pollunate the plant in my polytunnel and so far I've had 9 fruit from it. Take a male flower peel off the petals and then rub it into the female flower, it normally works. If I'm saving the seed I'll tie the female flower up so that no insect can getin and then I know I can save the seed for next year.
    Last edited by marathon; 21-09-2009, 01:17 PM.

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    • #3
      I've had a fair few of my squashes rotting this year (despite a very, very dry August/September).

      I've lost 1 Crown Prince, 1 butternut, and 2 Bonbons (all at softball size, so not small). No idea why. All the other fruits are fine, on the same patch.
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        I've had the same experience as Two Sheds this year, brilliant fruit on some plants, and none or rotting ones on others. I had a beautiful looking Pumpkin 'Aspen', almost rugby ball sized, but it developed a soft soft, and that was it, it stopped growing and got softer and softer, and in the end I cut it off.

        Are you growing in a greenhouse/polytunnel Neil, or in the open?

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        • #5
          Me too, had the same problem with Italian variety butternut squashes that reached around 300mm in length then started to feel hollow.
          I would love to know what may have caused this as I have not experienced it before.

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          • #6
            Not one butternut squah this year, lots of flowers lots of greenery, so I pulled them up and put the whole lot on my compost heap that is waiting to go into compost bin, I noticed that there is one little squash surviving.
            Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
            and ends with backache

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            • #7
              Originally posted by stv View Post
              I would love to know what may have caused this as I have not experienced it before.
              Amateur Gardening have just mentioned it: it might be caused by insect damage at pollination time. A wee little hole is made by the bug, which allows rot to set it, which gets worse as the fruit gets bigger.
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Two Sheds: That is a interesting idea and I will check the fruit thoroughly for holes, or other evidence. Any thoughts on what sort of bug might be causing the damage?

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