Re: Squash - Female flowers not opeing, so how can they get pollinated?

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• To: j*@mindspring.com, s*@lists.umsl.edu
• Subject: Re: Squash - Female flowers not opeing, so how can they get pollinated?
• From: N* C* <c*@dseg.ti.com>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:55:07 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <3598a0f9.115186363@news.mindspring.com>

Judy,

What time of day are you looking.  My yellow squash have the same problem
except in the morning.  When I go into the garden before work (great way to
start the day) I look for female squash flowers.  When I see them open
(every few days not every day) I pick a male, pull off its petals, and
stick it in the female to force pollination.  I don't catch them all and
some pollinate on thier own but it seems to help keep the production up.
BTW I don't seem to have to do this for anything but the yellow squash.

Hope this helps,

Norm


At 07:14 PM 6/25/98 GMT, you wrote:
>I have a summer squash plant - yellow straightneck.  Lots of flowers,
>both M & F.  The M open, age & fall off.  The F have that little
>swollen yellow squash-wannabe, but they stay tiny as do their blossom
>-- VERY small & tightly closed.  So, natrually, eventually they
>atrophy & fall off.  What to do??  TIA
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