Hi all
I'm growing squash marina di chioggia and the vines are doing very well. But something is strange - some of the fruits are round, smooth and keep growing steadily, eventually a large size.
(http://www.wincott.com/images/CIMG5024.JPG)
But some of the fruits stay smallish, they're rougher, not so evenly shaped and have broken ends - you can see them here
(http://www.wincott.com/images/CIMG5020.JPG)
(http://www.wincott.com/images/CIMG5021.JPG)
There are both types on the same plants, so it can't be a problem with the plant or its conditions.
Has anyone come across this, and can explain?
Slug damage to the embryonic fruit?
Second picture looks to me as if it has not been fertilized.
Quote from: Digeroo on August 07, 2009, 04:32:38
Second picture looks to me as if it has not been fertilized.
That's interesting - I though unfertilised ones just shrivelled and dropped off when tiny. (These have got to about 4cm across, before stopping. )
But if not being fertilised is the problem, then that would explain why only some are affected.
And same with slug damage.
They're gone - I've eaten them! Well, they weren't getting any bigger, so off with their heads!
An excellent solution... ;D