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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on May 07, 2016, 03:56:45 pm

Title: do I need more than 1 squash plant?
Post by: northfifeduckling on May 07, 2016, 03:56:45 pm

Hello - I have 3 germinated seedlings and would like to pass one on to a friend. Will she get fruit form 1 plant? With courgettes I tend to hand-pollinate from a different plant as male and female flowers appear at different times. Might be the same for squash but might be different. what's your experience?

Title: Re: do I need more than 1 squash plant?
Post by: Blondie on May 07, 2016, 05:37:35 pm

I think squashes can be pollinated by any other type of squash.... You don't have to have two but it would greatly increase chance of pollination to have two

Title: Re: do I need more than 1 squash plant?
Post by: farmershort on May 07, 2016, 08:14:12 pm

Yeah squashes aren't too fussy about what pollinated them. Your issue might be the substantially lower yield though. On a bad year with a fussy type of squash you might only get a couple of viable fruits per plant.

Depends on the species, weather, soil, experience... Yadda yadda.

Don't expect anything like the cropping level of a courgette!

Title: Re: do I need more than 1 squash plant?
Post by: Marches Farmer on May 21, 2016, 09:02:36 pm

Ours cropped well into October a couple of years ago.  The pigs were glad we grew five plants.

Title: Re: do I need more than 1 squash plant?
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on May 21, 2016, 10:26:01 pm

can I recommend a variety plz? T&M's butterbush very good for producing vast amounts. I am not sure as to the origional question, I always grow lots and they seem to fo better with many more of them.