Straight Yellow Squash - Is This Normal?

[John3]

I bought a pack of 20 cent seed packs. 26 seeds and 23 germinated. I went and transplanted them out with the first two leaves (non-true leaves) I drenched with water mixed with SeaCom PGR. Three days later they are about 3 1/2 inches tall and have blossoms bigger than the plant - is that normal for these type - I usually grow the crookneck type.
Here's a picture of one - not that great as I took with vid cam and saved an image from it.

[Worth1]

Weird

Worth

[Wi-sunflower]

I've never seen a blossom on a plant that small. It's a male blossom too.

Carol

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

I've never seen a blossom on a plant that small. It's a male blossom too.

Carol

Say what

[Crandrew]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Say what

HEHE freaking worth.

[Wi-sunflower]

Squash plants all have 2 types of blossoms, male that are on a "stick", like that one is, and female that are on what looks like a mini version of the squash. If the female bloom gets fertilized, that mini will grow into your squash.

There often are an excess of male blooms early before the female blooms open.

Carol

here is a pic that shows the 2 types.

[stonysoilseeds]

you can eat some of the extra male flowers they are truly delicious pan fried

[livinonfaith]

The squash bugs and vine borers always destroy my plants before they set fruit, but before they die they do put out a bunch of blossoms.

This year, I'm trying a couple of moschata type squash, since they are supposed to be more resistant to the SVB and Squash bugs. However, I still plan to plant a few summer squash as trap plants to give my new moschata squash a fighting chance.

Since I don't expect any fruit from those plants, this time I plan to eat the blossoms. At least that way, we get something from them.

[Tormato]

I'm thinking it would have to be a male blossom, since there is no vine growth, yet. I too, have never seen a blossom on such a small plant. It is not normal.

But then again, one of my newly planted apple trees (it's a whip, with no branches) has several blossoms on it.

Gary

[John3]

We had a hard rain here sense I posted the image a day ago - the plants not much bigger but spreading out dropped the pale flowers and now these dark yellow ones came on they really dwarf the plant. So I gather the small plant usually doesn't flower that early.

[stonysoilseeds]

the plant looks very stressed and alot of times squash plants go into reproductive flowering stage when stressed or before deat to produce the fruit.. i would remove all flowers so the energy can go into veetative stae