Omg...thanks for this video...i ddint know this before that there are female n male flowers in the pumpkin evrytime we grow pumpkin we looked after them like babies but nothing.. No fruits servived ..but thank you i will do this crosspollination to my pumpkin next time..and the video is so clear...you are star⭐🌟🌟⭐⭐👍
mine didn't gimmy nothin last yr either... but THIS TIME.. i been on them FULL FORCE!! i gotta b able to let my squirrels carve my Halloween pumpkins for me, cuz THAT is what WE do! 😁👍 (that's how we roll, over here at The Peanut Butter House, yo!! 🌲🏡🌲)
Do not throw away the petals of male flowers. They make many delicious recipes. My favorite one is shallow fry after dipping in batter to make awesome fritters.
I have a volunteer plant that has huge leaves some resembling melon's, some pumpkin. Starting from the bottom of the plant, it is producing and opening male flowers just like in the video. Definitely no female flowers on sight. There are 3 new sucker points that appear to have a flower bud each. Should I prune the plant, or the early male flowers? I saved 2 in my fridge just in case. Thanks.
Get yourself a variety that produces females and use the males from your volunteer plant to fertilize the female flowers, and then save the seeds of the fruit produced so you can see what grows from it. You may be able to create a new squash variety❤️ get some money from it👍
Just watched this video. I checked my squash blossoms and found that ALL the blossoms in one barrel appear to be male. The other barrel, placed about 12 feet away appear to be female flowers. I will attempt to pollinate in the morning. Why would one group be all one gender?????
Good video. Have you tried pollinating another female flower with the same male flower or flowers that you have already used to pollinate? Did it still work? Thank you.
Thank you so much helping me to understand the difference between Male & Female Plants and how to Pollinate. Can you use the male Pollen (the same Paintbrush) on several Females, or not?
YES!!! wondering the SAME THING as Marc G !?! And, how long does a female flower stay open? Until pollinated and if so, you're saying it the female fruit won't make it if pollinated by a flower elsewhere and that's why hand pollination is better? or...???? Thx!! Great video. Best I've seen!!!
Bees often only partially pollinate, causing the fruit to abort later, so hand pollination increases yield. Also, he mentions at the end that he's saving seeds. Bees cross-pollinate so any seeds saved from those fruits will be some crazy hybrid. That's why he's clipping the flower closed after he's done, so no bees can get in with pollen from all over the neighbourhood stuck to their body. Female flowers don't stay open long at all! Less than a day-maybe only hours! It's hard to catch them. There are usually way more male than female flowers, so I don't understand the first question.
Could be a number of things such as, it’s premature, lack of nutrients, lack of water. However, typically male flowers bloom before female flowers. If the plant is still small be patient. You can also apply a fertilizer to the plant such as, worm casting tea or fish fertilizer works very well. Hope this helps!
Lisa Bevill: Female blossoms can occur very early in the plants growth (a couple of weeks after transplanting), and are easily recognizable by the attached ovary very close to the base, but often there are no male blossoms to effect pollination and so the ovule will not continue to develop...it will simply turn dark and eventually fall off.
i'm worried that my squirrels will ruin my garden out there. (i'm TRYING to grow pumpkins, squash, cantaloupe, tomatoes, carrots & green peppers & all kindsa flowers) around Halloween, i always let the squirrels carve my pumpkins for me & i'd hate for them to go after the 1s that are NOT on my porch.. 😬 my garden can ALSO b followed... & so can my squirrels... 👌🥰👍 (all are welcome)
You shouldn't be interfering with those wild animals in the first place. Your food and company turn them reliant on people, make them pests, cause them to be killed, and directly makes them sick. You're amusing yourself but hurting them and the ecosystem. Of course they're going to destroy your garden, that's what rodents do. They aren't pets, and they aren't "yours".
I know this is an old video but do you really need to f****** pollinate zucchini I find that I shouldn't be planning to much zucchini because it produces too much
Jhonny Whitehead: The cucurbit family is easily cross pollinated resulting in any number of hybrids if entirely left to nature. This can result in complete failure the following year, or the production of something not useable for food. Hand pollinating a couple of fruits this year will result in hundreds of seeds of the same variety for next year”s garden. Leaving it to chance will likely result in failure.
balmedout1: The “stamen” is a structure in the male blossom that includes a tip called “anther” that produces pollen. The “stigma” is the pollen receiving tip of the “pistol” in the female blossom. Many plants have both stamen and pistol structures in each blossom, but cucurbits (squash, zucchini, melons, cucumbers, marrows) do not - they have separate male and female blossoms.
I don't know, but maybe he wants to control the yield, or to do selection. That is, he maybe cross pollinate two vigorous vines to assure large pumpkins or/and vigorous future plant obtained from pumpkin seeds. Just guessing.
