Courgette 'Yellow Taxi' should it have yellow leaves?

Grumpysally

I've got a courgette in the garden in a pot.
It produces ( I hope ) yellow fruit. It's beginning to get flower buds and looks healthy enough apart from the leaves start green then turn yellow.
I've read that yellow leaves are a sign that something is wrong, but also that some yellow courgettes have yellow leaves. :huh:
Has anyone else grown this variety? Does it have yellow leaves, and if not what might be wrong with mine?
Thanks

Davesnave

Yellow Taxi? Sounds American. I would feed it some Joni Mitchell at high volume for a few days, or alternatively, concrete the area over and put up a parking lot.

Seriously, it may be natural, as my Yellow Zebra is doing the same, or it was until the Wildebeest migrated.....

BrockStoker

AlisonW wrote: »

I've got a courgette in the garden in a pot.
It produces ( I hope ) yellow fruit. It's beginning to get flower buds and looks healthy enough apart from the leaves start green then turn yellow.
I've read that yellow leaves are a sign that something is wrong, but also that some yellow courgettes have yellow leaves. :huh:
Has anyone else grown this variety? Does it have yellow leaves, and if not what might be wrong with mine?
Thanks

How did they turn out?

I have a mixture of varieties (yellow and green fruits) growing in the same bed, and was surprised when the leaves on just the yellow varieties started to turn yellow!

csnann

I have a couple of yellow courgette plants, the leaves are quite yellow but the plants seem healthy enough.

Grumpysally

From what I remember, I gave it some liquid feed and also moved it to a sunnier, less windy part of the garden. The rest of the leaves grew green.
This year I'm growing boring green courgettes as I had a packet of seeds given to me.
They seem to be doing OK so far. Some are in the ground, one's in a pot and one, by way of an experiment, has been planted on top of a stack of turf.

Davesnave

Having grown the yellow ones last year, I've reverted to green as well. Stands to reason that less chlorophyll means a weaker plant, just as it does with variegated ornamentals.

However, last night my builder rang to ask what to do because the leaves on his (bog standard) courgettes were yellowing..... All I could think of was magnesium deficiency and Epsom salts.

Bananas123

yellowing is the plant drawing nutrients from the leaf to feed the fruit OR a stress response (too much nutes can cause "yellowing" as example).

so "no", genetically green leaves, should not be yellow.

if they started off green. and are progressing into yellow > then i would start feeding them / increase food.

i find squashes quite hard to grow as demand high sun, food and low humidity, broad leaves = mildew for me

have grown yellow crook neck squash, they can be harvested quite quick, although green leaves.

also you can eat the male flowers / surplus female ones (and anecdotally rest of the plant (...slugs seem to enjoy it); the pollen / flavour is a bit weird but strangely alluring.

fried with garlic; worth trying