[mickeyboy]

i was given a few courgette plants and they dont appear to be the trailing variety. The problem is that when the courgettes get to abot 3-4" the tip where the flower is begins to rot the courgette and i have to remove it.

They where in large pots til i put them into my plot on saturday, i had a nice looking courgette on the plant then and when i returned today it had rotted.

Does anyone know why this keeps happening and how i can stop this please?
Thank you

[Aidy]

Easy, once the fruit appears nip off the flower, it is probably down to this wet weather were having but as I say nip the flower the courgette will still grow, to be honest at 3-4 inch I would be nipping the whole lot off and eating it, flower an all.

[Aunt Sally]

Make sure you water evenly.  Little and often, and from the root not over the plant.  As Aidy said the recent heavy rain might be the culprit  :evil:

[Ice]

I posted on this exact same same subject recently and WG said that the immature plants couldn't cope with an excess of water until their root system was bigger.  He advise me to stop watering for a week, but then the darned skies opened. :cry:

[Annie]

Or could be incomplete fertilisation,you get it this time of the year just remove and wait.If it is wet and the flower is still stuck on the end then this can hold water so in this case remove the flower but if the end kind of gets thinner and then rots it`s probably the fertilisation thing and will right its self once an few more male flowers appear.

[Knulpuk]

Had the same problem last year when planted out in a flat bed - this year planted on a raised mound and it seems (so far),  to have helped.