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  • Courgettes - No MALE Flowers!?!

    I can't believe it!

    All my anxiety with my courgettes when they first started flowering was because there were loads of male flowers and no females.

    Oh, how the tables have turned!

    Tonnes of female flowers and NO male flowers so courgettes wilting and dropping off/being snipped!

    Is this as inevitable as the female flowers flowering later? Are my courgettes on the way out now?

    They're getting an awful lot of yellow leaves and don't look half as healthy and bushy as they did a couple of weeks ago.



    They are in builders buckets and being watered regularly from trays below. Being fed once a week with tom food (but I have missed a week or two sporadically).
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    I hope they have drainage holes. Cut back on the tomato food, and give them a general purpose feed. Be patient, they will sort themselves out - they're not that big yet

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    • #3
      Everybody worries about their courgettes VickiB. But in the end they make it.
      If fertilization is what you worry about, next year you might want to try a self fertile variety called Parthenon. They make huge courgettes, but I think they smell a bit funny - you know like when you walk into the kitchen and think there's a funny smell and after a good sniff round it's those courgettes - 2 or 3 times to cofirm.
      Next year I think I'll stick to Bush Baby.

      From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        Originally posted by Alice View Post
        Everybody worries about their courgettes VickiB. But in the end they make it.
        Originally posted by rustylady View Post
        Cut back on the tomato food, and give them a general purpose feed. Be patient, they will sort themselves out - they're not that big yet
        Thanks guys! Will swap feeds and let them get on with it!

        Originally posted by rustylady View Post
        I hope they have drainage holes.
        The buckets do (drilled about 30 odd 8 or 10mm holes in the base of each bucket much to OH and neighbours irritation!) but not the trays. I empty out any water they haven't taken up after half hour or so of watering (have to admit to forgetting on one or two occasions so they may have suffered soggy bottoms over night a couple of times! )
        http://vegblogs.co.uk/overthyme/

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