Are Your Squash Flowers Not Opening? Some Reasons Why and What to Do!
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- Are you seeing squash flowers that never open? Sometimes squash flowers don't open and the fruit fades away without ever being pollinated. This is usually caused by stress on the plant. The best way to take care of your squash plant is to reduce the stress! Compost, proper fertilization, and good watering techniques will help to ease that stress and allow future squash flowers to bloom properly and produce fruit!
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Love this no music or other useless intro, straightforward and great help! Thanks!
Thanks for this!! Ours weren't opening then fertilizer really boosted them and opened. But then... hard rain and wind almost wiped them out. Nursing them to recovery. We'll see... had to just pull some out. We've had a really tough time with squash this year.
Glad it was helpful! Squash is a harder plant to grow than most people realize. The squash vine borers almost always find ours before they can produce well.
Wrap your vine with aluminum foil and the vine bores will leave them alone.
Excellent upload friend. Thank you for sharing. Love it 😍
Thank you!
I made a small opening on female blossoms that didn't open, and I pollinated it through the hole. Will see if it worked😊
Did it work?
Did it work
I'm trying this today
Hey gardeners, what’s a good compost for squash?
My female flowers are just not opening. They look all big and yellow but nothing. It’s a new bed with new soil with a whole bag of compost added to the top layer of soil… and I fertilized halfway through the season last week. Rain has been great this year. Rain then sun, rain then sun… and consistently hot.
Your compost may have too much nitrogen in it, throwing the potassium and phosphorus levels off. Look for a fertilizer that is lower first number, and the next two numbers higher, something like a 0-5-5 or similar.
Thank you for this
I have done this with the potassium and the phosphorus. They still refuse to open. Can I force them open? I'm doing everything right. Three plants two fruit. I normally have 20. Same with the zucchini no weeds. It's been the second hottest summer ever. I kept them partially shaded with shade cloth from 12-4 daily. I'm disappointed
So yeah my plants are growing big , and producing a lot of flowers , and but the females don't flower properly and grow squash. I will try to find some high phosphorus soil and mix it in to the 1st layer
Hey man thanks for the video. Perhaps you can help me out.
So I have a super healthy squash plant. Lots of males, I keep it pruned back, training up a thick branch, the pot is around 5 gallon or so. I'm in an apartment and maybe get 5 hours of sun. I'm sure this is part of why none of my females have opened up. I started the plant off with a fish emulsion when it was young, then recently switched to a Tiger Bloom 2-8-4. When I transferred the plant to its big pot, I amended with Dr Earth Slow release 4-6-3 and Garden Lime.
The plant seems to be really thriving but those females are really stubborn. I don't have any compost at the moment but I do grind up my kitchen scraps with water and feed the plants that way. I also throw in egg shells, coffee grounds, tea grounds, etc.
I'm in Raleigh NC and it gets pretty hot here. Lately in the high 80s / 90s. Is this just a matter of being patient? We do have the luxury of a somewhat longer growing season because it stays warm even into September and October.
One of the female fruits was getting rather large and I thought "Surely this one will open up" and nope. Lol. It just yellowed and died. Same thing is happening with another one.
Any tips or advice is much appreciated!
I have a pan pan squash, growing without the flower having ever opened. I don’t understand how it turned into a fruit without opening for germination. Is it possible that a bug crawled in side and germinated it without it opening?
That's possible. Sometime ants can serve as pollinators and they can crawl into small cracks. It may be that it opened just enough to get pollinated.
Is it bad to open the female flower yourself to self pollinate?
There's no problem with doing that. If it doesn't open then you won't get pollination so it's definitely worth a try.
Buttercup squash blooming, 2 open but no male flowers are opening.
Ive got A StraightNeck with 6 upcoming fruits producing.
Unfortunately one of the more developed ones is rotting before even opening.
I've used a phosphorus fertilizer in the past so I'm not sure if its a lack of nutrients or somethin else.
It sounds like blossom end rot to me. Have you had lots of rain lately? BER is caused by cell development failure due to a lack of calcium. That can be caused by water prevent the uptake of nutrients in the soil, a soil deficiency, or in some cases a disruption of the nutrients in the plant caused by borders. Check your stems for any saw dust or holes to look for borers. For the calcium issue a foliar calcium spray should help and you can add calcium to the soil. Dissolved calcium antacids or the milk residue from a washed out jug of milk may help some.
@Growingthehomegarden Im growing this thing indoors so I don't really have to worry about rain😅
BUT I did give it a LOT of Phosphorus before to encourage fruiting, and now I've heard that may cause a lack of nutrients in the soil so-
maybe I do need to add the calcium and probably OTHER minerals back in my soil😅
Lol, well being indoors hopefully you aren't getting rain on your squash! You may have unbalanced spoil nutrition though.
@@Growingthehomegarden huh, probably explains y the leaves are droopy aswell
@@Growingthehomegarden would you recommend using Cal-mag fertilizer as a source of Calcium?
I've heard good things and bad things with it.😅 (mostly related to magnesium)
Is it helpful to cut away excess young male flower and just keep the female flower?
How long can male flower be saved after cut to be usable to manually pollinate the female flower? Would the male pollen still be good after 2 weeks?
You can store the pollen to keep it fresh in a refrigerator and it could be good for a couple weeks. If you cut off the excess flowers you send energy back to the plant to start forming new flowers. Eventually it will generate female flowers too. You definitely need both types of flowers to get production so keep a couple male flowers around for pollination.