Odd courgette flowers

annie123

One of my courgette plants is producing male only stems with 2 flower heads on, looks lovely when the flowers open, both male ones, been doing this for the last few weeks.
Must have thrown up 2 dozen or more now like it.
I have never seen one do this before any ideas?

My other one is giving me lots of nice normal courgettes, eaten several already with more in the fridge.
Both plants sown from the same seed packet.

iainsmum

Hi Annie123, must be from the same pack as mine then (lol). I have four plants and only one of them has had a female flower that has resulted in a courgette (still growing), the rest are all male flowers...grrrrh. But it's my first year of GYO so I'm not unduly worried, I'm experimenting this year to see what works and what doesn't.

annie123

They often throw up male flowers first but its the amount of them and the double flower heads thats thrown me.

Greenbynature

Same here lol I've got 2 plants, gave 2 to my Dad after reading how many courgettes they produce and the fact only me likes them! But only 1 plant has produced any flowers yet and they've all been male flowers with double heads! No sign of any females yet!

annie123

Greenbynature wrote: »

they've all been male flowers with double heads! No sign of any females yet!

That makes me feel better to know I'm not the only one thank you:)

Lotus-eater

They're quite common, I see them all the time. No idea why though.

annie123

Thats good to know, never happened in all the years I've been growing them.
Do they eventually start producing courgettes?

leon103

Its my first year growing them and I noticed I get loads of male heads with only 1 plant producing female. I got the seeds free from the BBC. What should I do with the male flowers? Let them die or cut them off straight away?

EC12345

The same has happened to me as well

Lotus-eater

annie123 wrote: »

Thats good to know, never happened in all the years I've been growing them.
Do they eventually start producing courgettes?

Ah hang on, I didn't read that properly. Teach me to rush.

It's common they produce the double male flowers, but I have never seen a plant solely produce male double (or single) flowers for a couple of weeks!

Don't know what to advise, shock it somehow I suppose, I would try cutting some leaves off, or feeding heavily, no watering.

annie123

I could take it with me to see my MIL tomorrow, that would shock it:rotfl:
Sorry MIL:o.........She's lovely really;)

Its been at least 2 weeks maybe longer that it's been doing this, tomorrow it loses some leaves, will see how that goes.

Do you think I should cut all the male stems off too?