so my Charentais Cantaloupe plant is doin great but it seems ALL the flowers so far are female. Dozens of them, so i have no fruit whatsoever forming. any advice out there??
Charentais Cantaloupe problems
My cantalopes make a lot of vines and flowers but never make a lot of cantalopes per vine. Is the vine long enough to start making cantalopes. Also are you in that part of the country that has had so much rain and cold weather? That would be a problem and it might do better when the weather gets warmer.
vines about 4 feet. TONS of flowers. i will take a pic of them, i think the r females. looks like nothing in them. rain isnt a problem as it has overhead protection.
wait i am wrong i guess they are all male flowers. im so confused. im going to upload a pic soon
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another view
last view
funghi2 - It's not unusual for members of the melon family to put-out male blossoms ahead of female blossoms.
I have the reverse problem, the cantaloupe I planted this year put-out mostly female blossoms. Fortunately, a few "volunteers" from last year have grown up in my sweet potato patch, so the bees are able to cross-pollinate the flowers.
so these are male flowers then?
funghi2 - they are quite possibly all male flowers. Take a close look just behind the blossom - if there's a little "bump" it's a girl, if there is no "bump" it's a boy :)
The bumps will continue to swell if the blossom has been fertilized - without fertilization, the bumps will turn yellow and fall off! Honeybees and Bumble Bees will do all the work of fertilization - if you don't have them in your garden, you will need a small, soft brush (such as a cosmetic brush) to transfer pollen from the male to the female flowers.
hmmmm, i think i may have my first female, is it a female???
Congratulations, funghi2 - it's a GIRL! :)
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