I have a Gourd plant growing since spring. How come I do not see any Gourds yet?

You would think that I should have Gourds by now? But no I don't. Why can some one please tell me? All I see are the white flowers. What s wrong with my Gourd plant? It has healthy , hudge leaves.

I have a Gourd plant growing since spring. How come I do not see any Gourds yet?
If you saw flowers on it,you would have a male and female flower to make it fertile,i;m quite sure I saw it in a garden book. I tried to grow a marrow once but no luck.
Reply:You should have planted two,as you need a male flower open the same time as the female flower is open to make a wee baby gourd, and with one plat you will find you have maybe female floer open one day then it close and then male flower open next day and so on son. with two palnts maybe male open on one and female on the other get it . Female flower is the one with the swelling behind the flower,just so ye know. Hope that helps you. sorry foe spelling i type fast and do do spell check.
Reply:It all depends on the season. I know that I had planted some pepper plants and some tomato plants, and had flowers, but no peppers or tomatoes. We have had really hot weather, and even though they had been watered plenty, I was told that they needed cooler nights so that the blossoms could bear fruit. Perhaps the weather wasn't right for your gourds this season. Try them again next year! That's the way with gardening. One year you have a bumper crop, and the next year you have little or nothing.
Reply:There's nothing wrong with the plant if you have flowers on it.

Basically, herein starteth the lesson.



To polinate the flowers, yah need bees.

Bees live in gardens and other outdoorsey type places. If your plant is indoors, you will have to leave a window open so that the bees can fly in, get friendly with your flowers, take the pollen to other flowers and thereby polinate them. After all that.....the baby gourds will start to grow. Ain't nature wonderful?



Here endeth the lesson - happy gourds!