Sep 30, 2023
I'm trying out Black Beauty zucchini for the first time and I notice like half of the female flowers (across multiple plants) have this weirdly wide blossom end deformity with exposed seeds.
Some of these got so big without blooming that I just looked up whether this variety can be parthenocarpic, and apparently yes.
I was gonna say I would definitely not be saving these seeds because of the deformity, but if the deformity doesn't interfere with fruit set then... I guess it's not a terrible thing. I'm still not gonna save seeds because this is kind of offputting, but the fruit's no less edible.
