wilted courgette flower

[jacks10]

Hello

About 1 week and a bit go my first courgette started flowering. Now its completed wilted and I touched it and it fell off!
The courgette I don't think is fully grown. Do I leave alone and if so will it it damage any other courgettes that grow!!

By the way over weekend I moved my pepper plant now on the windowsill where it's gets a lot of light!!

[roitelet]

Sounds normal to me, the courgette will carry on growing.

[MarkPelican]

If there are both male and female flowers it'll be fine but if there are no male flowers, the chances are that it won't be fertilised and so won't grow much before it gives up.

[vixylix]

one of mine fell off while moving it the other day. I'm not convinced it will have been pollinated as it was hiding in the back of the blowaway so I'm not sure the remaining courgette will do much. Have no fear though there will be PLENTY more!

[jacks10]

thank you for your replies

It is the female that the flower wilted, and I have a mixture of male and female flowers that are about to start to bloom or wilt, so I will let nature take its course.

[Dalrimple]

iv'e got 4 plants in a bed that don't look to good (pale yelow leaves) that has all male flowers ,they bloom then drop off ! anyone got any views on this please ?
all the best Dal.

[jacks10]

The advice I was given re yellow leaves was that it had been over watered and they like to be watered from the roots.

Where the wilted flower has dropped of, the courgette is looking brown at the ends. I still have male flowers and the other courgettes seem to be doing ok I think. One is due to be harvested soon