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Female zucchini blossoms huge, male blossoms not growing.

AgtJenny24
11 years ago

I know this sounds weird because everywhere I read, the male flowers come first and usually there aren't much females at first. But in my case, I saw both female & male buds come out, but the female ones keep growing and growing and all of sudden all 3 of my zucchini have huge female flowers ready to open up along with a huuuge starting fruit... yet none of the male buds have grown any larger and their stems are still so close to the stems... could it be the fertilizer? I am using all purpose Miracle-Gro.

And have to mention that I am planting them in containers... maybe I need another combination of nutrients for these male flowers to grow? They've been tiny buds like for 2 weeks while the female ones are growing out and ready to open up their flowers.

Also some tendril like things are coming out from the plant stems, that's normal right?

I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow or by the weekend. Thanks for any help!

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