Game over for courgette plant? Courgette rotting whilst on plant.

[Samuel1988]

Afternoon all,

On one of my courgette plants, one of the courgettes growing on the plant has a brown tip (which has advanced towards the plant over a couple of days) which, when lightly squeezed, is very soft (the courgette is < 15cm). It is the colour of rotten apples and it reminds me exactly of them. The main stem of the plant is white from that powdery mildew problem but it is still sending out flowers.

I have beetroot growing around it so would it be game over for the plant?

[rustylady]

The plant may recover and grow more courgettes, but you need to remove the rotten courgette as soon as you can.

[Vegpatchkid]

I'm loathe to give up on anything that's growing well, so I'd probably cut off any rotten courgettes and hang on for another week or two. But it is that time of year, the weather's almost certainly gonna get colder and wetter and it'll be game over for plenty of crops. (where's global warming when you need it?).
Cutting off any new flowers might help the plant send whatever energy it's got left into any developing courgettes.

[Pies]

Sounds to me like it wasnt pollenated,so cut it of and manually pollenate yourself by using any male flower from any squash/courgette.pull the pettals of and insert it into the female flower

[Veggielot]

I tend to get the odd one like that during the year so not necessarily a sign the plant has had it.

[northepaul]

Have you had any good courgettes from this plant? As above, it could be a one off and definately remove it.