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I am growing Long Green Bush Marrow; Vegetable spaghetti and Butternut
squash. Does one need to remove the male flowers from these plants,
please?

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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:31:52 +0100, compo
wrote:

I am growing Long Green Bush Marrow; Vegetable spaghetti and Butternut
squash. Does one need to remove the male flowers from these plants,
please?

No.

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"compo" wrote ...
I am growing Long Green Bush Marrow; Vegetable spaghetti and Butternut
squash. Does one need to remove the male flowers from these plants,
please?


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?

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Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

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"compo" wrote ...

I am growing Long Green Bush Marrow; Vegetable spaghetti and Butternut
squash. Does one need to remove the male flowers from these plants,
please?


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. They're closely realated, so it seems a
reasonable sort of question to ask if you don't know.

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Rusty wrote after...
"Bob Hobden wrote ...

I am growing Long Green Bush Marrow; Vegetable spaghetti and Butternut
squash. Does one need to remove the male flowers from these plants,
please?


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. They're closely realated, so it seems a
reasonable sort of question to ask if you don't know.


True, I grow the old fashioned outside (ridge) cucumbers which you leave
male flowers on too. Excellent flavour, taste of cucumber! :-)

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

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I grow the old fashioned outside (ridge) cucumbers which you leave
male flowers on too. Excellent flavour, taste of cucumber! :-)

Yes, I prefer those to the - er - telegraph pole shaped ones.

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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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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

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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.

Nah. It's living in the Arctic wot does it. Marrows and squashes are
Mediterranean plants, and the top bit of Scotland is a bit outwith their
preferred climate - though I did grow some good marrows one year on the
Isle of Lewis, that island does paddle in the Golf Scream.

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