Gardening > Growing FoodSeptember 08, 2010

Growing Cantaloupes

I have cantaloupe plants that had bloomed with yellow small flowers. Am I suppose remove the blossoms for the fruit to grow or not? I don't want to kill my fresh produce.

Hardiness Zone: 6a

By Trudy from PA

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09/11/2010

Not every flower will produce fruit. There are both male and female flowers, and the female ones will develop fruit after the bees pollinate them.

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09/10/2010

Leave the flowers alone. It has to bloom and when the bees have pollenated the flowers they later fall off and the fruit grows on that stem.

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09/09/2010

The flowers are what turns into fruit, just like apple blossoms turn into apples, etc.

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