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.
Think they produce both Alit.
thats good. i don't have a lot of room, so one plant will be just fine. Thanks for advice.
Never grown this before so i don't know how many to grow. How many fruits would you expect to get from one plant ?
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.
Many thanks, alit, will plant a few then.
I usually get 6-8 per plant!
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