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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Alphatono wrote:
This year I had massive issues with rot on the end of my
courgette & at the base of the plants I had it on all 5 plants
& then on my squash.

Any idea what it could be & will it affect me next year. Was
all find previous years.

Google "blossom end rot" for a million hits. You are probably
watering unevenly. Unless it is deficient calcium in the soil
watering evenly in future should fix it.

D

or you need honey bees.

???? Would the courgettes have started to grow enough to get a
rotted end if the flower hadn't been visited by a bee?

Apparently they do start to grow while infertile and only continue
to grow if fertilised. I am unsure how big they will get as I
usually have to shoo away the bees to get near them.

That's interesting. Does the same thing happen with other
fruits/veg that is really a fruit?

Some plants produce full fruit without fertilisation, it's called
parthenocarpy. For example bananas, some oranges and watermelons. Most
fruits don't develop very much at all and fall while tiny and
hard if not fertilised. I don't know how many partially develop if
not fertilised.

Watermelons do that!!! Most interesting. I'd always assumed that
they were like the other members of the melon family and needed to be
grown on their own if you were a seed saver. Must plant some of
those sun and moon ones now I know that bit of info.

I take it you don't want your moon and stars to produce hybrid seed. Maybe
I am thick today but I don't understand how this aim relates to
parthenocarpy.

D