Zucchini plant growing – herbaceous of the genus Cucurbita also known as Courgette, Zucchini plant annual plant, grow as shrub, semi vine, vine or creeping vine, can grow in mediterranean, desert, subtropical, temperate or tropic climate and growing in hardiness zone 4+.
Flower edible in yellow color with five lobs, female contain semi fruits that looks like a little Courgette plant, and male flower are smaller.
Zucchini vegetable
Fruit of Courgette plant picked up when it’s unripe before it’s fully grown, peel is green yellow, orange sometimes stripes, the shape can be oval, round or the structure rough sometimes cause incontinence to human skin, inside the fruit is light green.
Zucchini for sale – Seeds or Plants to Buy
Requirements for Courgette growing and care:
Recommend to watering on the ground and not watering on the leaves or the fruits, the vine species need trellising
What is the best way to start growing?
Seedling / Seed
Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
No
Difficulties or problems when growing:
Attacked easily, when the plant attacked in the base if not treatment well it will die
Planting season:
Spring
Pests and diseases:
Powdery mildew, aphids, moth, virus, beetles
Pruning season:
No need. But possible all the season
How to prune:
Infected leaves needed to take out, also try to clean them
Size of the plant?
0.5-1.5 m, 20-60 inches
Growth speed in optimal condition:
Fast growing
Water requirement:
Average amount of water
Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Full Sun
Is it possible to grow as houseplant?
No
Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Yes
Blooming information
Bloom season:
Late spring
General information about the flower
Flowers are edible, yellow flower with five lobs, female contain semi fruits that looks like a little Courgette plant, and male flower are smaller
Thinning the bloom:
Sometimes happened because disease or not enough water, or need hand poination
Pollination is done by:
Bees and more pollinators, by hand
Fruit information
Fruit harvest season:
Summer
Fruits pests or diseases:
Powdery mildew
What can be done with big quantities of Zucchinis?
Eaten raw, cooked, grilled, stir fry
Work requirements on the fruit:
Sometimes to space it from the ground
How long does it take to bear fruit?
45-90 days
How to Grow from seeds
Sowing requirement:
Easy to sow no special treatment
Saving seeds until sowing:
Room temperature, dry place
Sowing season:
Spring
Planting spacing:
Depend if trellising 20-30 cm
Depth of Sowing:
1-2 cm
Conditions for seeds germinate:
Moist soil, full sun
Watering requires for Seeds:
Average amount of water
Germination time:
5-14 days
Condition of seedling:
Warm weather, big amount of water, full sun, place to trellising
Do the seeds require burying?
No
Scientific name:
Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica