another great video! I particularly like your honesty by the end. Instead of talking on and on, you simply say that is it, simple, no more to talk. I take it as respect to viewers' time! Thank you!
My cucunbers seem to be getting together just fine, but I have noticed this on my squash. Guess I am going to put on some Barry White in the morning and help out my squash girlfriends! Lol Thanks for these great tips!
I am so glad you did this video! You really address a pertinent and pressing issue of the environment today. I've been an avid gardener in Europe (Italy mainly and then Germany) and am now back in the US. I have 8 zucchini plants and would say I'm getting the same yield now as I would with 2 zucchini plants in Germany. Do they use less pesticides there? Are there more bees? Is it simply a global loss? I didn't think it'd be much of a difference, but sadly I've had to rely on my own human intervention as the honeybee count seems to have diminished. Please, folks, pressure your local politicians and spread the word about bee disappearance because, yeah sure- we all want more zucchini, but the big picgture is that the bees have no food
Been having a lot of dying zucchini lately. I've seen a lot of ants on the flowers but no bees or other insects at all. Makes me think that maybe ants aren't good pollinators. Great tip as always, will give it a try for sure! Thanks for all your very educational advices ;)
I just recently learned about male and female flowers. I have been watching my struggling (due to SVB) squashes and just found my first female flowers! I missed the pollinating window with all the thunderstorms but tried anyway on one and have several more that will be opening soon. Here's hoping for squash soon. Love the channel and your sense of humor. 💞
I've been doing this the past few days at butt crack of dawn. I didn't really realize it was such an issue until I saw all (~20-30) little cukes drying up on the trellises and wanted to cry. Only 1 cuke got pollinated when the 30 or so blooms opened and 2 pickles (btw--YUM!). I've been shaking the tomatoes as you posted a while ago and have some tomato production, but HOLY CRAP! This dying pollinator thing is serious stuff. I had so very many more pollinators last year in a different neighborhood. Thanks for the vid.
Well, Praise ye the Lord!!! I WISH I had known this a couple months ago. I have a big beautiful Butternut Squash plant that has been blooming it's heart out for a couple months and not one squash. I paused your video and went out to see what I could do and all I had was two male blooms. I will keep watch in the future and will follow your advice.
Thank you for sharing this!! My squash has just started blossoming and I have not seen any little pollinators this year. Last year all of my squash did what you showed and I didn’t know why. Have a beautiful and bountifully blessed day!!
Wow, there are so many good gardening content creators on UA-cam right now, and yours is a fantastic one. When I have questions, you normally have a video on it. Thank you.
You couldn't had post it this video in a better time. My acorn squash just started flowering and you just assured me I was not pollinating my squash wrong. Thank you so much like usual.
Yeah Brian, very few bees this year and fewer every year. I’m losing about half of my buttercup and delicata squash. I still have a lot but I should be more diligent about being a “squash mid-wife”. Thanks for the video. It came at a good time.
I laughed at myself last year. Thought the issue was calcium deficiency. All the tums dissolved in water did nothing. Then saw pollination video on another channel saying precisely what you have shared. Thanks for all the info you share
Hi Brian, I love all of your video's between your great & likeable personality and the information you share, I can't resist watching them all! Thank You for your dedication and fun loving way you make it all look and sound and it is easy! I have a Big question, on my zucchini plants, when the female is about 1-2" long, BEFORE the blossom even opens, the tiny zucchini turns yellow and the flower never opens. What could be the problem, I have fed them calcium and a well rounded vegetable food, I don't think I am over watering, when the soil is dry 1-2" deep I water. I live in zone 7 in northern Nevada 1/2 hr from Reno. I use the same raised bed potting soil that you use. I just don't know what the problem is and I'm ready to pull them out! Please help! Blessings to you and your family and your new transition to your new home and creation! Thank you again!
I have 5 yellow squash and have had a time getting the correct situation to even hand pollinate. On month into the season and I have picked 5 squash and watched at least 5 wilt away. Definitely, especially early in the season, it pays to have several plants.
Question: If you only see male flowers, can you pick them or use the little paint brush and get the pollen and save it until there are female flowers to pollinate? How long is the pollen viable?
Wow! I feel as though I just learned about the birds and the bees! This is great information and now I'm outside early every morning (when the flowers are open) pollinating and excited to get more than one or two zucchinis!!! I shared this video with all my gardening friends. Thank you!!!
@@NextLevelGardening I told them they should really check out your channel as well. I really have learned a lot from you. I live in Sacramento, where we have a hotter climate than yours in the summer and it is colder in the winter. But, still, it is fairly similar. Your channel is the best!
Exactly what's been happening the last couple years to my crooked neck squash. I live in the high desert of California and thought it was the heat, so I put shade cloth over the bed. This year I planted some zinnias and it seems that it is helping bring in pollinators. I don't like to grow the squash big so it doesn't shut down production. Haven't seen any flowers on the cucumber vines yet. Thanks for all your wonderful tips.
I asked this question in the comments section of a prior video and you provided the perfect answer today with this video. THANKS! I'll be inspecting flowers today to give the pollinating tip a try.
Just seen a few of these this morning on my squash. I have some that look really great and a few that look just like the ones that you showed. Cucumbers -- "the smaller flowers are going to have smaller male parts, they just are". That's life :)
I just did this today with my zyphyr squash plant and my dark zucchini. I used a small white pipe cleaner that was easy to see the yellow pollen on. Thanks for the video confirmation. I knew I should try something when there were 2 small stunted squashes. Till Sunday!
I thought zucchini plants were easy so started with those and tomato plants. Well, my zucchini looks just like what you were holding up, little and dying. Thank goodness I came and checked your videos because now I know the problem! Thank you so much. Now I just need to know how to get more blossoms going. I'm thinking there is too much shade now because I planted my tomato plants in front of them and those plants got pretty big, blocking most of the sun...?? maybe. I love your videos, they are so helpful.
New gardener here. I jumped fully on board with growing a garden in a large raised bed and pots. I needed something to calm my mind and I really enjoy it. It's a lot of work but rewarding and can be disappointing when it doesn't go as expected. I have a lack of pollinators but I see a few here and there. More are now starting to show up since we have brought in more flowers. I go out and do exactly what you showed every morning. Some are taking off and others are falling off like it didn't get pollinated. I'm now using the male to pollinate the female. I have used a cotton swab but I haven't tried a small paint brush. Any ideas as to why this is may be happening?
😭😭😭 thank you so muccchhh!!!! All of mine have been dying I'm like what the heck is going on! As soon as the son wakes up I'm going out to make my spaghetti squash fruitful and multiply 🎉🎉🎉
This was a really good and insightful piece of information about pollinating the plants I’m going to go and do that right now thank you so much love your tips🙂
Thank you for this. My squash plant has the very tiny squash and not getting bigger. Now I know why. I checked and flowers left kale but hit lots if buds. Hoping for some girls!!!
Hi Brian, this is my first year as a "full-time" gardener and I made so many mistakes! Planting my stuff too close together, not cutting the suckers off the tomato plants (the indeterminates are huge) ...Which of these are apt to damage my squash/cucumber garden? I've seen pill bugs, black skinny pincher-type bugs, grasshoppers and ants? The ants are in the male flowers just like your video, grasshoppers is probably obvious, I saw one eating leaves (moved the little guy to a neighbors house who doesn't garden..ssshhh) but pill bugs, ants and black pincher-type bugs? Are all 3 bad? Will Neem oil solve this? Thanks much from a new but dedicated gardener.
every year my butternut crop as small as it may be does seem to do very well so hopfully the same will happen this year but the video is very good to know just in case!
Hi Brian I had bought 4 spaghetti squash cooked 2 of them had the other 2 on the counter and seen that they keep for a long time when I went to use them one had gone bad and thought I would keep the other one for seed I cut the ends off then cut just thru the flesh not to damage any seeds and there were spouts inside 4 and5 inches long roots were in the flesh we have put them under a grow lite and some right outside they are all growing fast have you ever seen that before
My butterfly bush did not bloom until a few weeks ago and the bumble bee is it's main pollinator. These bumble bees were pollinating my squash and zucchini furiously last year and I was getting loads of squash last year. I think I will start my butterfly bushes earlier to get those bumble bees earlier!
I've been "helping" my squash and cukes for several years, absolutely helps! Unfortunately, this year my females are going bad before the flower even opens :( I've started them on calcium already to help prevent blossom end rot but not sure what's going on. They are "rotting" before the flower even matures and opens.
I pruned off some of the leaves to expose the interior of the plant. Does 2 things. Better air circulation and the pollinators can see the flowers and are attracted. Like tomatoes, it hasn’t effected the plant to loose leaves
How do I control cutworms. I’ve tried collaring my transplants, putting toothpicks/nails next to the stems, egg shells and the only way I’ve been successful is to dig in the soil after the damage and find the cutworm. However, I’m having trouble with cut worms taking out my beets which it is difficult to dig in the soil w/o disturbing the neighboring beets. I heard you mention BT spray but with the cutworm in the soil, where do I spray? I love your show. Thank you for all your work.
So I have squash and zucchini that didn’t pollinate do I remove what is bad then pollinate when new flowers appear? I’m guessing yes. Thanks Brian. Enjoy your channel btw. Learning a lot.
Thank's. Lots of videos to show how to but not on how it looks like if it's not polllinated. So my baby delicata squashes look like OK, it still getting bigger after 7 days.
I've made 3 mason bee houses for my garden, and planted lots of flowering plants to encourage the pollinators. I just noticed that my coreopsis was covered in small mason type bees (native pollinators). Give coreopsis a try.
I am using the teepee method to train the squash to go up and get off the ground. The crook neck squash has been cooperative as I’ve had 1 main stem to go up the pole. The Sunburst goes in all directions and I’m only able to train 1 main stem up the pole and let the others go on the ground. Getting lots of squash daily. Usually 2 crookneck and 1 Sunburst. People are starting to not answer the door when we ring🙄😁😁
Nice information. My squash fruit did not even had change to open the flowers for pollination yet they just shriveled in the vine, so what could caused that problem?
I finally got a female flower and then no male flower to pollinate by hand. Then what do you do? I had a yellow squash (male) flower and used that to pollinate my zucchini female flower. Will I kill it?
I knew that was my problem. I’m not seeing any bees this year. I have a ton of blooms and I’ve been cutting back the biggest older leaves to make it easy for pollenators to get to them but my fruit is dying on the vine.
Hi Brian, I have a question about my squash plants if that's ok. Would you know why my plants only have male flowers? I have no fruits at all and I 'd like to help with the hand pollination but I have no female flowers to rub with the male...so you have a solution? Why is this? Thank you...
Awesome. I had this problem in Houston and was despairing. I noticed the lack of pollinators for years now. However I have also noticed that bees are more attracted to my Basil and I don't see them with the squash or cukes when they are present?
Thank you Brian for this video but I’m having another problem I can’t seem to find the answer to. I was going to do the pollination on my squash but the female flower wasn’t open. I thought it was fine to open it very gently but it tore up and then fell off. It happened to both of them on this plant. I was very gentle and I was very surprised how easily they fell off. Do you have any advice on this? I do appreciate it. I’m a regular watcher of your video’s because I learn so much!
Hello, love your videos, great explanation professionally spoken. I have a question. I have three butternut squash all in the same soil and watered similarity and no insects that I can see. The leaves on one plant are going yellow. Is there something that is missing in the nutrients? Thank you.
I have zucchini, yellow squash, and pumpkins beginning to put out females but they are shriveling and turning yellow before they become mature enough to bloom. We are in the 100s this week. Is it the heat or a deficiency? The plants themselves are very healthy and has good growth. They are planted in a wicking bed so stable, consistent moisture isn't a problem. TIA
I have not seen any pollinators either. But my zucchini only have make flowers. I have not seen any female. Also the flowers I do have die before they can open. Does that mean anything? Love your channel!!!!
another great video! I particularly like your honesty by the end. Instead of talking on and on, you simply say that is it, simple, no more to talk. I take it as respect to viewers' time! Thank you!
You're welcome!
My cucunbers seem to be getting together just fine, but I have noticed this on my squash. Guess I am going to put on some Barry White in the morning and help out my squash girlfriends! Lol Thanks for these great tips!
Lol. So funny!
I often have Barry White CDs playing on the back deck when I’m working in the yard and garden. Maybe I won’t have to “spread the love “ by hand. 😂 😂😂
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Love this. Thanks foe the howling laughs!
Just figured this problem out right before you released this video. It's like I'm in church or something, the message was meant for me!
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Same here! Great timing!
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I am so glad you did this video! You really address a pertinent and pressing issue of the environment today. I've been an avid gardener in Europe (Italy mainly and then Germany) and am now back in the US. I have 8 zucchini plants and would say I'm getting the same yield now as I would with 2 zucchini plants in Germany. Do they use less pesticides there? Are there more bees? Is it simply a global loss? I didn't think it'd be much of a difference, but sadly I've had to rely on my own human intervention as the honeybee count seems to have diminished. Please, folks, pressure your local politicians and spread the word about bee disappearance because, yeah sure- we all want more zucchini, but the big picgture is that the bees have no food
I do this too. I use a clean pipe cleaner to gather pollen. Easy to capture and longer to get to the female with out breaking off the male flower!
Been having a lot of dying zucchini lately. I've seen a lot of ants on the flowers but no bees or other insects at all. Makes me think that maybe ants aren't good pollinators. Great tip as always, will give it a try for sure! Thanks for all your very educational advices ;)
Yes I was also seeing ants plus getting no pollen on the brush. I was wondering if the ants were eating the Pollen or farming something that does?
Brian you are an amazing teacher! Thank you for sharing your garden wisdom!!
Thank you
Hi. Great video instructions !! I hope you had a great FATHER'S DAY !! Peace to you and yours
I just recently learned about male and female flowers. I have been watching my struggling (due to SVB) squashes and just found my first female flowers! I missed the pollinating window with all the thunderstorms but tried anyway on one and have several more that will be opening soon. Here's hoping for squash soon. Love the channel and your sense of humor. 💞
I've been doing this the past few days at butt crack of dawn. I didn't really realize it was such an issue until I saw all (~20-30) little cukes drying up on the trellises and wanted to cry. Only 1 cuke got pollinated when the 30 or so blooms opened and 2 pickles (btw--YUM!). I've been shaking the tomatoes as you posted a while ago and have some tomato production, but HOLY CRAP! This dying pollinator thing is serious stuff. I had so very many more pollinators last year in a different neighborhood.
Thanks for the vid.
It is serious! Try planting lots of flowers to bring them in
Well, Praise ye the Lord!!! I WISH I had known this a couple months ago. I have a big beautiful Butternut Squash plant that has been blooming it's heart out for a couple months and not one squash. I paused your video and went out to see what I could do and all I had was two male blooms. I will keep watch in the future and will follow your advice.
great help thanks
Thank you for sharing this!! My squash has just started blossoming and I have not seen any little pollinators this year. Last year all of my squash did what you showed and I didn’t know why. Have a beautiful and bountifully blessed day!!
You are absolutely right that it used to just work automatically and a squash would double in size every day !
Thanks for the tips !
You're welcome
Wow, there are so many good gardening content creators on UA-cam right now, and yours is a fantastic one. When I have questions, you normally have a video on it. Thank you.
Just got the link, definitely need to help with my squash pollination, thank you.
You couldn't had post it this video in a better time. My acorn squash just started flowering and you just assured me I was not pollinating my squash wrong. Thank you so much like usual.
Oh good!
Brilliant -- definitely how I'm going to teach my daughter about the birds and the bees
Definitely trying this with my cucumbers , watermelon and butternut squash .Thanks Brian . 😊
Yeah Brian, very few bees this year and fewer every year. I’m losing about half of my buttercup and delicata squash. I still have a lot but I should be more diligent about being a “squash mid-wife”. Thanks for the video. It came at a good time.
I know. I seem to have more this year with all the flowers I planted.. Good luck. 😀👍
Squash midwife! 🤣
I laughed at myself last year. Thought the issue was calcium deficiency. All the tums dissolved in water did nothing. Then saw pollination video on another channel saying precisely what you have shared. Thanks for all the info you share
Hi Brian, I love all of your video's between your great & likeable personality and the information you share, I can't resist watching them all! Thank You for your dedication and fun loving way you make it all look and sound and it is easy! I have a Big question, on my zucchini plants, when the female is about 1-2" long, BEFORE the blossom even opens, the tiny zucchini turns yellow and the flower never opens. What could be the problem, I have
fed them calcium and a well rounded vegetable food, I don't think I am over watering, when the soil is dry 1-2" deep I water. I live in zone 7 in northern Nevada 1/2 hr from Reno. I use
the same raised bed potting soil that you use. I just don't know what the problem is and
I'm ready to pull them out! Please help! Blessings to you and your family and your new transition to your new home and creation! Thank you again!
I have 5 yellow squash and have had a time getting the correct situation to even hand pollinate. On month into the season and I have picked 5 squash and watched at least 5 wilt away. Definitely, especially early in the season, it pays to have several plants.
Question: If you only see male flowers, can you pick them or use the little paint brush and get the pollen and save it until there are female flowers to pollinate? How long is the pollen viable?
I appreciate this I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong but the light 💡 just went off when I watched your video
Wow! I feel as though I just learned about the birds and the bees! This is great information and now I'm outside early every morning (when the flowers are open) pollinating and excited to get more than one or two zucchinis!!! I shared this video with all my gardening friends. Thank you!!!
Divine timing!! So new to gardening and this plant has grown immensely! Two inches a day!!
I shared this with my city-wide gardening FB group. A lot of folks have been complaining about this. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
@@NextLevelGardening I told them they should really check out your channel as well. I really have learned a lot from you. I live in Sacramento, where we have a hotter climate than yours in the summer and it is colder in the winter. But, still, it is fairly similar. Your channel is the best!
Exactly what's been happening the last couple years to my crooked neck squash. I live in the high desert of California and thought it was the heat, so I put shade cloth over the bed. This year I planted some zinnias and it seems that it is helping bring in pollinators. I don't like to grow the squash big so it doesn't shut down production. Haven't seen any flowers on the cucumber vines yet. Thanks for all your wonderful tips.
You're welcome. Good luck 👍
Thank-you so much Brian!!!!! I never knew this before and now I'm anxious to go and get my plants all fertilized! Your're the bomb!!!
Thank you!
I asked this question in the comments section of a prior video and you provided the perfect answer today with this video. THANKS! I'll be inspecting flowers today to give the pollinating tip a try.
Just seen a few of these this morning on my squash. I have some that look really great and a few that look just like the ones that you showed. Cucumbers -- "the smaller flowers are going to have smaller male parts, they just are". That's life :)
Lol.
I just did this today with my zyphyr squash plant and my dark zucchini. I used a small white pipe cleaner that was easy to see the yellow pollen on. Thanks for the video confirmation. I knew I should try something when there were 2 small stunted squashes. Till Sunday!
Good idea!
I thought zucchini plants were easy so started with those and tomato plants. Well, my zucchini looks just like what you were holding up, little and dying. Thank goodness I came and checked your videos because now I know the problem! Thank you so much. Now I just need to know how to get more blossoms going. I'm thinking there is too much shade now because I planted my tomato plants in front of them and those plants got pretty big, blocking most of the sun...?? maybe. I love your videos, they are so helpful.
New gardener here. I jumped fully on board with growing a garden in a large raised bed and pots. I needed something to calm my mind and I really enjoy it. It's a lot of work but rewarding and can be disappointing when it doesn't go as expected. I have a lack of pollinators but I see a few here and there. More are now starting to show up since we have brought in more flowers. I go out and do exactly what you showed every morning. Some are taking off and others are falling off like it didn't get pollinated. I'm now using the male to pollinate the female. I have used a cotton swab but I haven't tried a small paint brush. Any ideas as to why this is may be happening?
Hi to my favorite farmer and teacher!!
Hi!
Good to see all is well. Ty for the tip😊
I got my first summer squash plant, and it’s growing massive leaves and flowers, bigger than my head! I’m using a q-tip, to pollinate.
😭😭😭 thank you so muccchhh!!!! All of mine have been dying I'm like what the heck is going on! As soon as the son wakes up I'm going out to make my spaghetti squash fruitful and multiply 🎉🎉🎉
Did your squash banging work?
This was a really good and insightful piece of information about pollinating the plants I’m going to go and do that right now thank you so much love your tips🙂
Thank you for this. My squash plant has the very tiny squash and not getting bigger. Now I know why. I checked and flowers left kale but hit lots if buds. Hoping for some girls!!!
Your looking good, hopefully headaches are gone. The timing is perfect, we are experiencing right now. Thanks again.
Me too. I just pulled all mine and threw em on the ground in disgust about two hours ago. I hooe this helps.
Mostly yes thank you!
Thank you. I learned so much from this video. 🇨🇦 . Love all your videos.
I’m hoping my zucchini is ready to be put in the mood!
But seriously, this is awesome to know. Thank you for the great content!
Omg! You’re brugmansia is beautiful!
I had this happen last year and I wondered why…thanks!
Hi Brian, this is my first year as a "full-time" gardener and I made so many mistakes! Planting my stuff too close together, not cutting the suckers off the tomato plants (the indeterminates are huge) ...Which of these are apt to damage my squash/cucumber garden? I've seen pill bugs, black skinny pincher-type bugs, grasshoppers and ants? The ants are in the male flowers just like your video, grasshoppers is probably obvious, I saw one eating leaves (moved the little guy to a neighbors house who doesn't garden..ssshhh) but pill bugs, ants and black pincher-type bugs? Are all 3 bad? Will Neem oil solve this? Thanks much from a new but dedicated gardener.
Thank you for the information I have been wondering why they were dying before they got mature 👍👏
Perfect timing! Thanks Brian!
You're welcome
every year my butternut crop as small as it may be does seem to do very well so hopfully the same will happen this year but the video is very good to know just in case!
No female flowers only male flowers. Can i prune some of the male ones????please reply back Thanks. Bruce
Hi Brian I had bought 4 spaghetti squash cooked 2 of them had the other 2 on the counter and seen that they keep for a long time when I went to use them one had gone bad and thought I would keep the other one for seed I cut the ends off then cut just thru the flesh not to damage any seeds and there were spouts inside 4 and5 inches long roots were in the flesh we have put them under a grow lite and some right outside they are all growing fast have you ever seen that before
Yes. I've don't the same with pumpkins🙂
So helpful! Thank you for saving my squash
Good one! Many people will not know to do this! Glad you have made this .. great for sharing! :-)
My butterfly bush did not bloom until a few weeks ago and the bumble bee is it's main pollinator. These bumble bees were pollinating my squash and zucchini furiously last year and I was getting loads of squash last year. I think I will start my butterfly bushes earlier to get those bumble bees earlier!
thanks for the great advise. very helpful
I've been "helping" my squash and cukes for several years, absolutely helps!
Unfortunately, this year my females are going bad before the flower even opens :( I've started them on calcium already to help prevent blossom end rot but not sure what's going on. They are "rotting" before the flower even matures and opens.
Timely video! My cukes and squash are just getting some blooms. Great to see you looking like you feel better. Continued thoughts and prayers. ❤️❤️🌹🌹
Thank you I AM!
Great info that will increase my production.
I pruned off some of the leaves to expose the interior of the plant. Does 2 things. Better air circulation and the pollinators can see the flowers and are attracted. Like tomatoes, it hasn’t effected the plant to loose leaves
Brian thanks again.
That was awesome. Thanks!
How do I control cutworms. I’ve tried collaring my transplants, putting toothpicks/nails next to the stems, egg shells and the only way I’ve been successful is to dig in the soil after the damage and find the cutworm. However, I’m having trouble with cut worms taking out my beets which it is difficult to dig in the soil w/o disturbing the neighboring beets. I heard you mention BT spray but with the cutworm in the soil, where do I spray? I love your show. Thank you for all your work.
Great video! I will try and let you know how it goes! Thx!
So I have squash and zucchini that didn’t pollinate do I remove what is bad then pollinate when new flowers appear? I’m guessing yes. Thanks Brian. Enjoy your channel btw. Learning a lot.
Yes!😀
Thank you for your content!!!
Thank's. Lots of videos to show how to but not on how it looks like if it's not polllinated. So my baby delicata squashes look like OK, it still getting bigger after 7 days.
I've made 3 mason bee houses for my garden, and planted lots of flowering plants to encourage the pollinators. I just noticed that my coreopsis was covered in small mason type bees (native pollinators). Give coreopsis a try.
djh Thanks for that tip! I'll be rushing tomorrow to our garden center to buy it. Save the 🐝 bees!!! 🙏🙏❤️❤️🥰🥰✌️🦸
Bees love the sunflowers too. They seem to always cover them.
What kind of flowers should I plant next year to get bees make their home. Mason bees? How you make them?
Hi, how can I pollinate to the female flower when it's so tiny baby and not opened yet then it dies baby squash? Would love to know. Thanks
I am using the teepee method to train the squash to go up and get off the ground. The crook neck squash has been cooperative as I’ve had 1 main stem to go up the pole. The Sunburst goes in all directions and I’m only able to train 1 main stem up the pole and let the others go on the ground. Getting lots of squash daily. Usually 2 crookneck and 1 Sunburst. People are starting to not answer the door when we ring🙄😁😁
This is great! Thank you!!
Nice information. My squash fruit did not even had change to open the flowers for pollination yet they just shriveled in the vine, so what could caused that problem?
Thanks I am having that problem going Give it a try
super easy, thanks
I finally got a female flower and then no male flower to pollinate by hand. Then what do you do? I had a yellow squash (male) flower and used that to pollinate my zucchini female flower. Will I kill it?
Thank You... that was MOST helpful.
Good video on the subject.
Great video, thank you!!!
What if the squash is rotting before the flower even opens? Please help this is my issue with both my Kuri and butternut squash plants.
I wondered why my squash was doing that!! Thank you! I really though I had done something wrong!
I knew that was my problem. I’m not seeing any bees this year. I have a ton of blooms and I’ve been cutting back the biggest older leaves to make it easy for pollenators to get to them but my fruit is dying on the vine.
Thank you
Brian
For our birds and bees lesson lol
Literally how I taught my son
I wonder if you can keep pollen from the previous year in a bag
I’m SO glad 😁you made this video. I’ve been having that issue happen and have been meaning to ask! Thanks!
#mindreader 🤣🤣
Brilliant, thank you 😊
Hi Brian, I have a question about my squash plants if that's ok. Would you know why my plants only have male flowers? I have no fruits at all and I 'd like to help with the hand pollination but I have no female flowers to rub with the male...so you have a solution? Why is this? Thank you...
Same here darling. 😏
So to be sure I understand; do I do this to my small squash that are already shrinking.
Awesome. I had this problem in Houston and was despairing. I noticed the lack of pollinators for years now. However I have also noticed that bees are more attracted to my Basil and I don't see them with the squash or cukes when they are present?
Squash are mostly pollinated by another species called "squash bees." You don't see other bees pollinating them much.
Thanks for the video. Also is that honey suckle behind you? Does that need full sun?
Did you open the female flower or did it open on its own? I never see the female flowers open on my plants, and i check early morning and evening
Omg, I just learned a trick, thank you so much, Brian! 😃
Yay. You're welcome
As always loved the video. I think we need to start breeding bees.
Good idea
Thank you so much, was wondering what I was doing wrong....doing the HAPPY DANCE lol
Very informative and helpful! Thank you.
Thank you Brian for this video but I’m having another problem I can’t seem to find the answer to. I was going to do the pollination on my squash but the female flower wasn’t open. I thought it was fine to open it very gently but it tore up and then fell off. It happened to both of them on this plant. I was very gentle and I was very surprised how easily they fell off. Do you have any advice on this? I do appreciate it. I’m a regular watcher of your video’s because I learn so much!
Hello, love your videos, great explanation professionally spoken. I have a question. I have three butternut squash all in the same soil and watered similarity and no insects that I can see. The leaves on one plant are going yellow. Is there something that is missing in the nutrients? Thank you.
I have zucchini, yellow squash, and pumpkins beginning to put out females but they are shriveling and turning yellow before they become mature enough to bloom. We are in the 100s this week. Is it the heat or a deficiency? The plants themselves are very healthy and has good growth. They are planted in a wicking bed so stable, consistent moisture isn't a problem. TIA
This is so helpful!
I have not seen any pollinators either. But my zucchini only have make flowers. I have not seen any female. Also the flowers I do have die before they can open. Does that mean anything? Love your channel!!!!
Thanks so much for this video 😁