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Didn’t even know there were male/female squash blossoms.

That's where little squashes come from... :-)

[LomanBill]

>>That's where little squashes come from... :-)

heh ;-}

I had in mind the incorrect conception that it'd work the same as my indoorsie tomatoes - where the flowers are self-fertilizing. On those, I use an old Sonicare electric toothbrush to buzz the flowers -- moving the pollen between stamen and pistil in the same flower for fertilization.

Obviously doesn't work the same with the squashes.

Outdoors this year, nature took care of squash pollination splendidly. I'll be eating variations of squash soup all winter as a result.

Speaking of outdoor pollination - I observed an apparent increase in the local bee population this year. Large vigorous and hearty fellows who were still quite active up until just a couple of weeks ago - when the frost finally did away with the last of the flowering here at 7000 ft on the Colorado high plains.