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Re: More questions

Leslie Carr wrote:
>
> >>2)  I got up this morning to find three gorgeous bright yellow flowers on
> >>two of our seven squash plants (they are HUGE).  Two of the flowers are
> >>on the same plant (yellow crookneck) and are a male and a female so we
> >>hand pollinated with a paintbrush (does it take much pollen?).
>
> Can we back up here - I have to admit I don't know how to sex a squash.
> I can sex kittens, I'm pretty reliable with chickens, I can usually tell
> with teenagers...  I'd appreciate it if someone would let me in on plants
> - how to tell them apart, and what I should do with that information.  We
> got a while to go yet, the squash go into the garden tomorrow.  Thanks.
>

        Females are the ones with little green squashes under the flower. And,
yes, the more pollen the better. Incompletely pollenated fruit won't
set.
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