Zucchini has lots of blossoms, not much squash ?

Question

there are plenty of blossoms.. i see lots of male flowers, and lots of closed flowers that have fallen off the plant.

we are set on a hill next to a lake and it gets pretty breezy, even windy.

i know there is a bee shortage but i am curious if it could be too windy - can it be the wind be blowing the pollen away ?

Answer 1

Ours does the same thing. I'll see what you get for answers.

Answer 2

Zucchini are monocots.  Plants with incomplete flowers are divided into two groups. The monoecious plant grouping has male and female flowers on the same plant. Monoecious means one house. A couple of examples of monoecious plants would be corn and squash. The tassel at the top of corn contains the male flower, and the ears hold the female flower. Squashes bear ONLY MALE flowers early in their life cycle, but later in the growing season produce both male and female flowers

Answer 3

They might not have been  properly pollinated, so the ovary, which looks like a little vegetable, doesn't set fruit & falls off. There may be several other  reasons why you don't get fruit on your squash: too much fertilizer, not enough sunlight, too much heat or too cool weather, rainy weather at bloom time,  no pollinating insect activity,  improper pollination or pest problems.

Pollination needs to be made to all segments of the female flower. This has to be done by 10 a.m. because pollination carried out later than the end of the morning during warm weather has very little chance of success because the pollen will have heated up and fermented and will no longer be viable. You can help pollinate the squash.

Pollinating squash by hand video: You should see the squash enlarge the day or two after pollination & it should be ready to pick in  3-4 days... unless the squash bug intefers with the process by sucking the juices out of the developing squash.

http://lubbock.tamu.edu/ipm/AgWeb/videos...

Make sure you don't water overhead early in the morning so the male flowers can have a chance to pollinate the female flowers. They will open up before dawn and will close completely by mid-morning.The male flowers possess both pollen and nectar, the female flowers only nectar. If the plants are watered from overhead early in the day, that may prevent all further pollination for that day. Everything gets washed off of the short-lived flowers. Replacement flowers do not open then until the following morning.There can be other reasons why blossoms don't set fruit & fall off. Sometimes, even if they were pollinated... the blossoms can  abort from the stress of high day and night time temperatures.  Extreme temperatures during flowering... below 55 degrees or above 85 degrees... can reduce fruit set.  Sometimes there are only female flowers & not any male flowers, so the female flower can't get pollinated. Too much shade or not enough light, plant disease, & even too much nitrogen can also cause poor fruit set.  

http://www.kokopelli-seed-foundation.com...

You have a lot of male flowers now, but your plant should be be getting  enough female flowers soon to start producing more squash.

Good luck! Enjoy the video :)  

Hope it helps.   Cupid :) LOL

Answer 4

I believe this is due to a problem with pollination.  One trick I have learned, is to pluck a male blossom and rub the stamen into a female blossom.  Or use a paint brush to transfer the pollen.  Good Luck