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Zucchini Cucurbita pepo plants are so prolific that each plant will produce between 6 and 10 pounds of fruit each growing season. You may end up with a bumper crop of zucchini shortly after the flowers bloom. Just a few days is all it takes before you will be ready to harvest your veggies, depending on the size you want the squash to be when you pick it. Be ready to harvest them at least every other day after you see the fruit appear. The squash grow as annuals in U.
I have checked at all times of day. The zucchini behind the flowers get around 4 inches long but the flowers never open and the zucchini eventually just shrivel up. I hand pollinated a couple of the flowers but the zucchini still shriveled up. I have the opposite going on. My first two female flowers have opened, while the males are still tiny. On the upside, I think someone nearby in the neighborhood has some zuke plants because those two females seem to have been pollinated.
But what usually happens for me anyway is the plant puts out a flush of one sex of flower or the other early on, then the other has to catch up, then finally, there will be both male and female flowers at the same time so pollination can take place either by hand, or by insect. I usually plant only one, so I have to be patient and wait for both flowers to be present. I am glad I found this thread.
I'm not really sure how I missed it. I am having the same issue with my squash and zucchini plants. I have gotten one squash so far. There have been several other female flowers that have done as others said and never opened and just shriveled up and died.
I will have to try and pollinate the females by opening up the flowers myself. I had this problem in my first garden year, see my earlier post. I finally read that this is a common symptom for a plant that is stressed. That first year, my zuch was crowded, shaded, water stressed by drought, and I had tried to train it into a tomato cage to keep it from taking over the space in the square foot garden.
I wonder why it was stressed? LOL Now I plant my zuch's in a more sunny location with at least 4 square feet allocated to it and steady drip system irrigation. Haven't had the problem since. So figure out what is stessing your zuchini plant, and you might solve the vestal virgin zuchini problem in your garden. Now that I think on it, that cage kind of worked like a chastity belt, no wonder there was no zuch sex going on!
Hmmm, evidently all I needed to do was post a message about my female zucchini flowers. When I checked them this morning 2 were open. I hand pollinated them just to make sure but I did see a bee out there later on today. I checked my base stem very closely and saw a little damage and I saw a tiny bit of damage on a few of the undeveloped tiny "would be" squash. I put some insecticide powder on the lower stem, down at the base area.
I also cut back on the watering in a hay bale. Not sure which one worked probably the insecticide but I now have squash again!!! Naomi i really cant understand myself iam so stressed my zuchinni develops little zuchs and will not open they shrivel up and turn brown i disposed of them and am hoping to find some of my female flowers to open in the morning i give them kelp fertilizer and tum calcium tablets at the base of the plant and water them at least twice a weak they are at least 28 inces apart please can somebody give me any answers.
My experience has been that most of us "over care" for our plants. My natural instinct is to give them more water when something isn't quite right but most of the time that isn't the answer. When in doubt, I cut back on the water. Mulching and very little supplemental watering once plants are established seem to do the trick at my house anyway. My squash plants are getting male blooms and they do open.
One at a time though. The females blooms aren't getting big enough to open. What can I do? Each year, if I recall correctly, many of us are frustrated by the coyness of our female Cucurbitaceae. From what I have gathered, it can be a reaction to stress. Whether climate conditions, water issues, nutrition issues or insect stress check at the very bottom of your stems the couple of inches just above the ground.
Many time stem borers have attacked your plant and you don't even know it. That is one of the things that happened to mine this year.
I am having the exact same problem and was hoping someone would have a solution. The pictures you added tell a lot. Your plants are further along than I assumed based on your original post. When the plants are as far along as yours are, flowers not opening can be a sign of stress.
Sometimes it happens when you have a squash vine borer, but in your case, I think it is because the plants are much too close together. I plant my zucchini in raised beds, and each plant gets a 3' x 3' area to itself. They are huge plants and need space. If they are closed still, they are not yet mature. They will open, and once they do you will notice them open during the day. Your first flowers are likely to all be male flowers, so you will not get any fruit from them.
After a flush of all male flowers, you'll start noticing a mix of male flowers and female flowers. The female flowers will have a small bulge in the stem at the base of the flower. This bulge will become the fruit once the flower is pollinated. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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