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Old 07-17-2007, 02:33 AM
twilkins19 twilkins19 is offline
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Default My squash plants are making too many male flowers? Help!?

I can't control it! For two months now male flowers everywhere only a few female now and then! But they don't grow to much size. Bees are usually everywhere in the morning hours all in between the flowers so pollination is not the problem so what is? All males for the most part and very few females. The female(actual squash) barely get big. What could be the problem? I have only used miracle grow twice all summer once in may and last week! I live in Virginia and I have about 10 plants. This is weird! Help if you can!

Thanks so much for your answers and input!


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Old 07-17-2007, 03:20 AM
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Keep trimming all of the non-essential parts, like the male flowers. The squash will grow bigger when the plants energy is flowing into the squash, and not the other areas of the plant.
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Old 07-17-2007, 03:41 AM
Joanne A. W Joanne A. W is offline
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From: http://www.ag.arizona.edu/gardening/news/azdailystar/garden_failure.html

"It is common for summer squash plants not to produce, or to produce poorly. This is because of insufficient pollination of the female flowers. Both male and female flowers are produced on the same squash plant. Sometimes many more male flowers are produced and few if any female flowers appear. At other times many more female flowers are present, but male flowers are scarce. Pollination from male to female flower fails to happen, and no squash are formed. Hand pollination can be carried out.

Male flowers from one plant can be used to pollinate female flowers from another, or of the same plant. Female flowers can be identified by the miniature squash (unfertilized embryo) attached under the flower. Male flowers have no such attached miniature squash. To hand pollinate, a male flower is removed and the pollen producing anthers in the center of the flower are rubbed onto the stigma of the female flower to achieve fertilization."
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Old 07-17-2007, 06:02 AM
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you should pinch them off for bigger squashes to grow
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