What the heck? Weird clusters of flowers on butternuts

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My one butternut refuses to flower, like, at all. I’ve accepted it’s hopeless at this point.

Today I noticed these clusters of flowers sort of trying to start but … they look nothing like squash flowers.

Anyone know what might have happened here?
 

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If you have an excess amount of nitrogen in the soil the plants will not bloom normally.
 
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If you have an excess amount of nitrogen in the soil the plants will not bloom normally.
Interesting…the plant shares a bed with another in the same soil and has normal flowers (and 3 squash). I’ll retest my soil. Thanks for the reply, it’s been very confusing!
 
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I vaguely remember a thread (maybe 6 months ago) about a squash or cucumber doing the very same thing. I can't remember the exact verdict but I think maybe @Meadowlark or @Chuck or @DirtMechanic was in the thread also. I cant find the thread myself so maybe they have a better memory.
 
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Thanks folks! I searched before posting and couldn’t find anything. And if it’s a cucumber … the seed packet had a straggler/imposter. This would make more sense to me, it def doesn’t present like a butternut!
 
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Let it grow and see what kind of fruit it produces and post a picture.

This year out of one fresh packet of tomato seeds I got one plant that was a totally different variety so your not alone. Also out of another fresh packet of tomato seeds all of the plants were of the wrong variety.
 
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Let it grow and see what kind of fruit it produces and post a picture.

This year out of one fresh packet of tomato seeds I got one plant that was a totally different variety so your not alone. Also out of another fresh packet of tomato seeds all of the plants were of the wrong variety.
If anything ever fruits, I def will! The rate of how this plant produces vines is staggering…. Like, several feet a day. The flowers took 4 months!

It’s incredible to me that seed packets can be wrong - the butternuts were a sample of like 6 seeds. Ironically I managed to thin to the one that isn’t what I tried to plant!
 
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I planted Tomatoes supposed to be Beefsteak.

Afterwards very few Beefsteak. Cherry Tomatoes and Pear Tomatoes.

A Cucumber has similar seeds but smaller.

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