Okay, tomato is taped together - it still had that skin connection on one side.
“Do those male flowers ever do anything besides look like a fuzzy weird thing?”
Every fuzzy thing is a flower before it blooms.
I just found this:
“The flowers you are seeing are likely to be all male flowers. Squash, melons, and cucumbers produce male flowers first and are then followed by female flowers which often form on side or “lateral” branches. Be patient and they will appear.”
I have two flowers which I would call on the main stalk. I have another flower that should be open by tomorrow that I would call being on a lateral branch. There is nothing growing under the one on the lateral branch and nothing growing under the other two flowers.
I've yet to see a male flower bloom, but I have squash on the plant. I just went out and counted thirteen yellow green squash. Three are zucchini size. The rest are smaller ones.
Later, when it's not so hot, I am going to put two more cucuzza plants out into their final spot. I also have one more T squash that is ready to go out into it's place by the cattle panel, and one that I'm still waiting to emerge.
They are in the greenhouse right now. I had the door and window open, the greenhouse is covered in shade cloth, and I had a fan going in there at medium speed. It was 100 degrees in there. I am thinking that I am going to take the plastic off, and cover it with just shadecloth until fall. The only downside to that is that I also use it like a potting shed, so I will have to move things I don't want to get wet out of there..
Yesterday, we got a whopping 12/100th's of an inch of rain. I guess that wouldn't have gotten anything in there wet, plastic cover or not.