courgettes

orangemonkey1

hey there
first year growing courgettes, and two of them have gone mouldy and squishy before they get bigger than 2 inches. Should i be picking the flowers off? Can anyone tell me why my courgettes are dying as i've resorted to picking them off when they get to that size but we didn't get much of a dinner the other night with my 2 inch courgettes! lol

aurorahelios

If they don't grow and go squidgy and mouldy they haven't been pollinated. I find it's quite common with the first courgette on the plant but after that pollination is almost guaranteed.

If you're really having trouble you can hand pollinate by removing a male flower and inserting it into a female flower.

mary43

:T Just had to share this............just had our first courgettes from our 'veg in pots'...............one plant it seems has golden fruit, the other green.......lovely they were too:j
OH reckons we'll be eating runner beans by the weekend!

savvy

OMG I just have to say that I've eaten courgette flowers in a rice batter at Fifteen...........they were fantastic

But I'm miffed now as I didn't realise there were male and female flowers and could've eaten some :rolleyes: I thought they were just flowers that either grew a courgette or didn't! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ruby911

Help!
I think I have 'Courgette Rot' if there is such a thing. The courgettes grow looking healthy and well they are growing off the ground, but when they get to about 10cm long the end where the flower was starts to go brown, then mushy and mouldy???
It has happened to about 15 now! I keep pulling them off but alas the next ones are always the same. S far, I have not had one normal courgette.
I thought I may be over watering them so laid of it for a bit, but it still happened.
Any advice appreciated
Many thanks

mary43

Somethings up with one of our courgette plants.(the green one)........well the plant looks ok in itself and we have had some good courgettes from it but now, although its got fruit on, the fruit looks all spotted and as if its going mouldy (for want of better description). I'd put it down to too much rain if it weren't for the fact the other plant (golden courgettes) is lovely, fruiting well.
Don;t know whether to pick off the fruit now and see what happens or whether to chuck the plant out altogether

aurorahelios

Mary if I was you, I would just remove the spotted fruit and see what happens to the next fruit that form. If the leaves are healthy there is a good chance the plant is still ok. The cause may well be the rain, the yellow ones being a different variety may be better equipped to cope with the wet weather.

mary43

Thanks. I'll do that and wait and see

jennet1

I've got 2 plants that have produced loads already, although I noticed 1 plant is producing "knobbly" courgettes all the new courgettes seem to be growing this way. have they got some strange disease?

nodwah

jennet1 wrote: »

I've got 2 plants that have produced loads already, although I noticed 1 plant is producing "knobbly" courgettes all the new courgettes seem to be growing this way. have they got some strange disease?

Do you know the name of the variety? some of the fancy italian ones are like that.