Home grown butternut squash pumpkin

Here is my beautiful butternut squash (we call them butternut pumpkin in Australia) plant. I started it from the seed of a store bought butternut squash.

It’s spilled over the raised planter I planted it in and has extended its way along the deck to its current lovely form.

It first started flowering about a month ago, and initially it only produced male flowers. Those are the flowers which bloom on the end of a slender stem. Now at long last, it has produced a single female flower!

You can see the female flower, which has a tiny baby butternut pumpkin and the flower on the bottom end. It’ll will keep growing larger in size as the flower reaches maturity. Once it blooms, if there is also a make flower in bloom, they can be pollenised and develop into the fruit. Fingers crossed 🤞