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If you remove the male flowers you will get no fruit, the female flowers
will remain unpollinated and the embryonic fruit underneath will simply
wither and drop off.
What made you ask the question?

Cucumbers, presumably.

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Rusty


Correct! I usually grow all female cumbers but this year they have all
died from the very cold late Spring weather up here. As replacements I
bought a 26p packet of Lidl's "remove the male flowers" cucumber seeds
and all are so far doing well. The question arose because the
difference prompted me to wonder if this was why I only had a couple of
butternut squash females develop last year.

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Cheers,
Compo