[mdjlucan]

im getting lots at this sizes then they go soggy an drop of any one no wots making them do this i fed them every to weeks with tom feed

[Yorkie]

Are they in direct contact with the soil?

Can the air circulate properly, or are they all cramped together?

They look a little large to be dropping off the plant without pollination.

[mdjlucan]

pic are here

[Old Tom]

Still waiting for the first flowers here up north. 

[realfood]

Next year, try the other types of Winter Squash which taste just as good but are so much easier to grow.

[JohnB47]

My butternut are rubbish this year, also uchiki kuri. The crown prince seem to be doing well, as usual. I'll stick to them in future.

Maybe it's the lower temperatures that get the young fruit - my butternut did the same with the first fruit, now the plants seem to have given up entirely.

[simonwatson]

Hate to disagree with a more experienced member, but my unfertilised buttermnuts look like this when they come off. I've got some that have grown to reasonable size, but we had a lot of rain around the time the female flowers came out so I've only got 5 between two good sized plants.

[sunshineband]

Hate to disagree with a more experienced member, but my unfertilised buttermnuts look like this when they come off. I've got some that have grown to reasonable size, but we had a lot of rain around the time the female flowers came out so I've only got 5 between two good sized plants.

That's five more than me 

Luckily some of the other squashes have given me some fruit, or I would have to have a squash free winter 

[mumofstig]

My old faithful Thelma Sanders is doing well this year as always 

[sianb]

We have 12 on two plants ,however they are only about 2 inches at the moment so i,m hopeing theirs still time for them to get bigger and rippen.

[kevinp]

none on mine at all, is there still time to set fruit and fill out now do you think ? I have thought about removing them to give my others room

[Colin Beevers]

I would leave them in if I were you. I've grown butternuts a few years now and I often find the first few will not pollinate. There is still plenty of time for them to mature, in fact I've always considered them as a late season crop- something to enjoy just as the first frosts are starting!

[Azazello]

My (absurdly large) plant is covered in these flowers -  will these become fruit?

edit - Sorry to hijack thread.

[TerryB]

When this happens I've always assumed its poor pollination and some of them have been between golf and cricket ball size.
My butternut have been very slow to set fruit but we have already had some of the Uchiki Kuri.
This will be the last year for the butternut if they don't get a move on.

[JayG]

My Winter Festival squash plants, which have performed well in the past, have really struggled this year.

One of them has at last produced a female flower which is nearly open, and there is a fully open male flower on the same plant.

I'm so desperate to get at least one fruit this year (even if it's only cricket ball size!) I might try breaking and entering with the trusty paintbrush while I've got the chance! 

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Azazello: I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be looking at in that picture (where are the petals?) If that is/was a flower it looks more like a male one to me.