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Courgette flowers but no fruit
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A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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You say it's in better health, but it's pretty stunted. Courgettes are not meant to be that small.
Alternatively, it could just be that you've had bad luck and have grown a blind plant. It happens sometimes, where they either never flower or else only produce male flowers.
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I have been told enough on courgettes so have allowed them to grow and ripen into stripe-less marrows.
I have two batches of plants one from saved seed of marrows as stated on the packet. The stripes were less prominent than most marrows I know. The saved seed just came up like courgettes and that is what I harvested them as.
The others were from a packet of seed that said courgettes.
I had the same with butternuts last year with a packet of melon seeds coming up as butternuts.
I harvested an 18 inch fruit from one of the saved seed plants today.
Near Worksop on heavy clay soil
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Courgette plants are 4 feet wide and need an equal amount of soil to grow in.
I once tried pumpkins in car tire pots on a concrete roof and they never produced anything like they do in the ground.
Vine weevils were the main problem this year. I had to spray a line of ant and crawling insect killer down each side of seedling rows in order to get anything to germinate and grow more than a couple of leaves.
Near Worksop on heavy clay soil
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Originally posted by ameno View PostYou say it's in better health, but it's pretty stunted. Courgettes are not meant to be that small.
Alternatively, it could just be that you've had bad luck and have grown a blind plant. It happens sometimes, where they either never flower or else only produce male flowers.
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