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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: alit on April 24, 2006, 20:34:21

Title: Butternut Squash
Post by: alit on April 24, 2006, 20:34:21

Only one of my butternut squash seeds has germinated.  Do i need more than one plant to get an squashes or will this plant produce male and female flowers.

Can anyone advise please.

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: ellkebe on April 24, 2006, 20:56:34

Think they produce both Alit.

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: alit on April 24, 2006, 20:59:37

thats good.  i don't have a lot of room, so one plant will be just fine.  Thanks for advice.

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: Learner Gardener on April 24, 2006, 21:08:00

Never grown this before so i don't know how many to grow. How many fruits would you expect to get from one plant ?

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: alit on April 24, 2006, 21:10:59

i grew some last year and i don't remember getting that many from each plant.  and i thought they were not going to produce any squashes at all as they just grew green stuff for weeks, then all of a sudden started producing squashes.  i was so pleased.  But not too many i recall.

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: Learner Gardener on April 24, 2006, 21:18:55

Many thanks, alit, will plant a few then.

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: Doris_Pinks on April 24, 2006, 21:28:26

I usually get 6-8 per plant!

Title: Re: Butternut Squash
Post by: sandersj89 on April 25, 2006, 11:09:27

Onre plant will produce both male and female flowers but more plants will increase the chances both are produced at the same time.

Yield is between 3 to 8 fruit per plant depending on variety and whether you stop the plant fater 2 or 3 fruit per stem.

One trick is to hand polinate the fruit as this also increases the potential yield I find.

HTH

Jerry