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I need yellow squash advice
I need yellow squash advice
My plants are beautiful and have lots of blooms but when the squash gets about 2 inches long it starts to shrivel up to turn brown. Any suggestions?
jeboo-
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Age : 56
Location : Dallas
Re: I need yellow squash advice
Squash plants may produce female flowers before there are male flowers to polinate them. When this occurs they will produce a small fruit that will rot and fall off. They will also drop new fruit when there is already an abundance of fruit on the plant. Give it a bit more time to set fruit before you worry....it is not a disease. This is one of my squash plants today....


manitoak123-
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Location : Winterville, NC
Re: I need yellow squash advice
Thanks manitoak123!! Your squash looks great!
jeboo-
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Age : 56
Location : Dallas
Re: I need yellow squash advice
If this keeps happening, you can hand pollinate. Just take a male flower, strip off the petals and dab the pistil it on the female pistil. (I think I'm blushing describing this
)

Retired Member 1-
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Re: I need yellow squash advice
How do you tell the male and female squash flowers apart again? Hopefully this is a family-safe subject. 

Re: I need yellow squash advice
i personally have no clue how to tell the difference, BUT!
last year i had amazing crop of FOUR canteloupe from one pollination session on a single plant - all i did was take a qtip and when i saw flowers one day swabbed the inside of every flower a couple times - going back and forth til i know i got them all at least 2x - figured the pollen would be appropriately blended then..
worked great! wish i had done it the next time i saw a bunch of flowers but i got distracted with kids and 'stuff'. ..
this year, i'm gonna do better and see if i can double the harvest per plant!
i also put a child's 'artist paintbrush' in my gardening 'gear' so when i see flowers, i can be mroe delicate about pollination. qtip is pretty big.
hth.
bettyann
last year i had amazing crop of FOUR canteloupe from one pollination session on a single plant - all i did was take a qtip and when i saw flowers one day swabbed the inside of every flower a couple times - going back and forth til i know i got them all at least 2x - figured the pollen would be appropriately blended then..
worked great! wish i had done it the next time i saw a bunch of flowers but i got distracted with kids and 'stuff'. ..
this year, i'm gonna do better and see if i can double the harvest per plant!
i also put a child's 'artist paintbrush' in my gardening 'gear' so when i see flowers, i can be mroe delicate about pollination. qtip is pretty big.
hth.
bettyann
happyfrog-
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Re: I need yellow squash advice
I went out this morning to pollinate my squash and was surpriseed that only one of the blooms was female. I have had so much fun with my first garden and everyday I learn something new. I just assumed that if there was fruit forming that it was not a pollination problem!!!! Now I am going to try it with my cucumbers 

jeboo-
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Re: I need yellow squash advice
@Megan wrote:How do you tell the male and female squash flowers apart again? Hopefully this is a family-safe subject.
The female flowers have a bulb behind them which is the baby squash, and the pistils are small bulbs in the center of the plant. The male blossom is on a stem and the pistil is, well, "male like".

I use a small paintbrush for cukes as I sometimes have to be a contortionist to see which are males or females. It's just easier to touch a paintbrush to each blossom.
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