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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: viettaclark on September 11, 2010, 21:28
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Grew 4 plants this year instead of 2. Only got 3 squash last year and this year the grand total of....ONE!
I used the rest of a packet of Duchy Originals Waltham and they germinated fine, produced wonderful, strong plants that spread for miles, plenty of insects around for pollination but the male and female flowers just didn't synchronize properly.
I'm green with envy at the harvests some of you have had because I tended them lovingly. They were in huge pots with plenty of goodness in the soil and fed regularly.
Has anyone else had probs with this particular seed or is it just me?
Next year I'm trying Harrier F1 and Festival. And planting MORE plants!!!
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Hi hope this makes you feel better I grew cobnut for the first time this year and only got two from 8 plants and a green one that looks more like a marrow. Also have grow festival and they have done really well so will grow them again next year.
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I grew 2 plants of 'Hunter' and got zero. Nada. None. :(
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I decided to try a Italian squash this year called 'Lunga Di Napoli'. The plant prodoced four enormous squash. I harvested one last week and the weight was 25lbs. I think one will keep me going for the entire winter.... hope it tastes good!!
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I don't think that's what they wanted to hear lacewing :dry:
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I have grown 5 butternut squash, 5 pumpkin plants and 10 of another squash I ate and planted the seeds. Less than half of them have produced fruit but some have produced more than one. The butternut were hopeless - I think I will get two plants with a worthwhile squash on. The Pumpkin seeds I was given have produced 2 decent sized pumpkins (though they did produce others that just rotted for some reason). The best one seems to be the seeds from the squash I bought, ate then dried the seeds, planting them a couple of weeks later! More than half of them have produced at least one squash.So much for F1 hybrids!
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i planted 1 butternut squash plant and have only harvested 1 squash so far , but the plant is around 6metre long and as atleast another 10 on but will they mature this late on
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nothing for me his year either, but I started them a little late. Last year I got a reasonable harvest from the same seeds.
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I'm wondering if it's using old seed? Although the plants were healthy enough it may affect flowering?
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I have also tried Duchy Original butternut lots of growth and flowers but no squash as far as I can see :( on the otherhand those that have self seeded from the compost bucket seem to have a couple of fruits each ??? Oh well try again next year I suppose :)
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I don't think that's what they wanted to hear lacewing :dry:
Sorry, thought I was on squash recommendation thread! :blush:
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Hi Lacewing I also can recommend Lungo di Napoli. A dark green butternut squash. I also like Tromba D'albenga presume that is classed as a BNS as well. Now that does have a good flavour and crops much more readily that the acorn shaped ones. Hunter, harrier and cobnut all not that productive. Lots of leaves.
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i planted 8 butternut this year and will not get a single squash >:( >:( , i used fresh seed off the same type that gave me a good crop last year.
i gave a neighbor 5 seedlings and by the end off year he'll have had 15-20 off them >:( >:(
p.s. pumpkins, summersquash grown in same area did ok.
Well, theres always next year to bring a different selections of success's and failures, all part off the fun,lol :D :D :D :D
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I've done BNS for the last two years and just don't give them a long enough growing season.
Not going to bother with that variety next year.
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I grew 2 plants of 'Hunter' and got zero. Nada. None. :(
hey! i grew two hunter butter plants and got loads, dug a deep hole filled it with manure and veg, black sheets over the top, in the hot weeks [and throughout] watered with comfrey and i have had loads they are just taking the bell shape now
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I thinks its been down to the weather. I grew Festival squash, 4 plants outside and 2 under a plastic cloche. The ones outside have squash on them but they are only the size of a golf ball / tennis ball and are too small to do anything with. The ones under the cloche have each got 4 decent sized squash on them about a couple of pound in weight each. I grew this variety because the fruit are an ideal size for 2 people.
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I grew 3 different varieties from fresh seed (Metro F1 PMR butternut, Kings seed butternut squash & Waltham butternut), all 15 seeds germinated and grew into healthy plants. Some were planted out at the allotment (in very fertile soil with lots of manure dug in), some in big pots and grown on the patio (very sheltered south facing - should have been perfect ideal conditions) and ... nothing :( I've had loads of flowers on all of them too. My other squashes on the other hand did very well while cucumbers, courgettes & marrows have been the best year yet, so it's a bit of a mystery.
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5 Plants, 5 squashes, not huge ones though,
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Hi all,
I grew five Chieftan BNS (because I couldn't get Hunter seeds). I got them from Tuckers in Ashburton, we mangaed thirteen squashes ranging from about 600g. to 3kg., we haven't tried eating any yet, just waiting for their skins to harden and lose all the green This is my first year growing them and we planted them on the contents of one of my dalek compost bins.
I'm sooo looking forward to roasting one!
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I grew 6 varietys of squash this yr , the hunter butternuts are they only ones that look like i might not get any! same story last yr.
Tbh butternut not exactly my favourite squash anyway so i next yr im not gona bother with em. other squash grow so much easier, i find.
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Just had my best ever year for Butternuts, 10 Waltham have yielded 35 fruits, the majority over 3kg in weight. (Sorry Paintedlady). The downside is that we could be mighty sick of butternuts before winter is over..... :)
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Just had my best ever year for Butternuts, 10 Waltham have yielded 35 fruits, the majority over 3kg in weight. (Sorry Paintedlady). The downside is that we could be mighty sick of butternuts before winter is over..... :)
:tongue2: there's always next year ...
this morning I was doing a search of butternut varieties and instead came across this interesting information http://www.tozerseeds.com/butternut-squash/production/- in particular, pollination. I have lavender growing on the patio and also a bed of Munstead lavender at the plot near where the butternut was planted out - both are bee attracters which apparently is detrimental to butternut pollination (although it doesn't explain why the other cucurbits were more successful) Next year my new squash bed at the other end of the plot should be ready (I've been piling in the compostables and manure) so fingers crossed :D
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Whilst in the greenhouse this morning I thought I would turn the ripening butternuts.
One of them had started the 'funny brown circles' type of rot. I brought it in and luckily the rot was only skin deep, I'd caught it just in time.
So watch out..check your butternuts often :lol:
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do you know what caused it mos
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I used saved seed, produced 2 monster plants, but they've only just started fruiting ... I think I'll buy some seed next year !! :mellow:
I've had fantastic success with Crown Prince so I'm keen to do more squashes.
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do you know what caused it mos
It was the same as the one in this topic
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=64004.msg732525#msg732525
and I think it was just the cool wet weather, just when they wanted warm and dry ::)
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Whilst in the greenhouse this morning I thought I would turn the ripening butternuts.
One of them had started the 'funny brown circles' type of rot. I brought it in and luckily the rot was only skin deep, I'd caught it just in time.
So watch out..check your butternuts often :lol:
Hope it's not that Gummy Stem Blight thingy that I got. From what I read it can develop in storage. :-(
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