Simultaneous gender squash flowering
Finally, just today, I began seeing male flowers and female flowers on my squash vines open at the same time. The females arrived first, about 2 weeks ago. Then the males finally followed. I realize most garden blogs and YouTube vids say it's the other way around. Not here in NE Texas. From what I've read, it's a temperature-dependent process.
Just today, the plants also became miraculously covered in bees. None last week or the week before. I went out there with a Q-tip at first light planning to hand pollinate and found that all the blooms were already being serviced by industrious bees. They were nowhere to be seen last week.
These squash are Toet Bat Put, a Korean Moschata. Supposed to have good SVB resistance (squash vine borers.) Growing it this year for the first time and I have 6 vines going in large (20-gallon) grow bags trellised with mesh netting strung onto 7-foot T-posts. The plants are vigorous and healthy. So far, so good.
Originally by u/NPKzone8a on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/26mru6d7
Finally, just today, I began seeing male flowers and female flowers on my squash vines open at the same time. The females arrived first, about 2 weeks ago. Then the males finally followed. I realize most garden blogs and YouTube vids say it's the other way around. Not here in NE Texas. From what I've read, it's a temperature-dependent process.
Just today, the plants also became miraculously covered in bees. None last week or the week before. I went out there with a Q-tip at first light planning to hand pollinate and found that all the blooms were already being serviced by industrious bees. They were nowhere to be seen last week.
These squash are Toet Bat Put, a Korean Moschata. Supposed to have good SVB resistance (squash vine borers.) Growing it this year for the first time and I have 6 vines going in large (20-gallon) grow bags trellised with mesh netting strung onto 7-foot T-posts. The plants are vigorous and healthy. So far, so good.
Originally by u/NPKzone8a on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/26mru6d7
Simultaneous gender squash flowering
Finally, just today, I began seeing male flowers and female flowers on my squash vines open at the same time. The females arrived first, about 2 weeks ago. Then the males finally followed. I realize most garden blogs and YouTube vids say it's the other way around. Not here in NE Texas. From what I've read, it's a temperature-dependent process.
Just today, the plants also became miraculously covered in bees. None last week or the week before. I went out there with a Q-tip at first light planning to hand pollinate and found that all the blooms were already being serviced by industrious bees. They were nowhere to be seen last week.
These squash are Toet Bat Put, a Korean Moschata. Supposed to have good SVB resistance (squash vine borers.) Growing it this year for the first time and I have 6 vines going in large (20-gallon) grow bags trellised with mesh netting strung onto 7-foot T-posts. The plants are vigorous and healthy. So far, so good.
Originally by u/NPKzone8a on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/26mru6d7
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