Lots of blooms, but no veggies?

LSU628

 My squash and zucchini are both producing lots of flowers, but I have not seen any veggies developing. Any ideas of what is going on, and what I can do to fix it?

kastle

When those plants first start blooming, they produce a lot of boy flowers and then they start producing girl flowers.  However, if it's been like 3 weeks+ of all flowers, no fruit, you have a pollination issue and you may want to play match maker.

First, find a boy flower.  These don't have a bulge at the end of the flower (that's what girl flowers look like).  Take the pollen from the boy flower & brush the inside of the girl flower with it.  Also, plant things to attract pollinators so you won't have to do this anymore! 

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You need to have more than one zuc and squash plant for it to work. That way there are enough male and female flowers. I don't think they can self pollinate, so the male flower's pollen can't be from the same plant as the female flower. 

LSU628

Guess I will be going back to the nursery for more plants! Thanks, Ladies.

kastle

sugrfrejaz:

You need to have more than one zuc and squash plant for it to work. That way there are enough male and female flowers. I don't think they can self pollinate, so the male flower's pollen can't be from the same plant as the female flower. 

Actually, male flower can pollinate a female flower on the same plant.  More plants just give you a better chance of having males & females going at the same time.

ChristyDM82

sugrfrejaz:

You need to have more than one zuc and squash plant for it to work. That way there are enough male and female flowers. I don't think they can self pollinate, so the male flower's pollen can't be from the same plant as the female flower. 

I had one zucchini plant last year and it produced a ton of zucchini.