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Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 0:45
| My female squash flowers are not producing the little baby squash at the base of the flower. The plants are healthy and have a number of male and female flowers on them. Just the female flowers have no babies attached to them. I know that you can self pollinate the female flowers but don't they need the little babies behind the flowers. |
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- Posted by Bloomin_Onion 2/3 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 9:57
| Are you sure you're looking at females? Females have a swollen stem behind the flower and it has a different shape depending on which kind of squash you're building. My crooknecks have a bulb while my zucchini have a thicker stem than the males but not a bulb shape. I had never grown squash before this year, and it's been a learning process. "Why are my males so big and the females so small/non existent? When will my female flowers bloom? How do I know if they're pollinated? When do I harvest them? What happens if they don't pollinate?" I found myself tackling all these questions in about two weeks as suddenly my plants started pushing out female flowers and fruit. To answer your question completely, I've never seen a female flower without a swollen stem behind it that eventually becomes fruit, and if there isn't any, then I don't know what could cause that. :( |
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| Yeah... what makes you think they are female flowers if there isn't a baby squash at the base of the flower? Pictures would be fairly definitive. |
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| I too have seen no females all season! been like 3-4 weeks and all male flowers every few days, until this past weekend when i saw ONE female starting to grow ( hopefully will flower soon). i really hope my zucchini plant doesnt produce only 1 fruit all summer lol |
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| I've got the opposite - all females, haven't seen a male yet. Thinking of asking my neighbors if one of their plants can make a pollen donation ;-) |
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