If you're growing a pumpkin for Halloween and you're having some issues with it actually producing a pumpkin, well that's what this episode is all about.

There are some reasons why a

pumpkin or squash would not produce a fruit and we'll talk about how to fix it. So the

most obvious one is that the female flowers are not being pollinated.

With squash, the first flowers you'll see will be male.

You'll know they're male because there's a very thin stem attached to the base.

They don't have an ovary. There's no little

bump behind them that needs to get fertilized, right? So those come out first and

they'll be the only ones you see for a couple weeks and they're

basically telling everything in the area hey it's about to get real the

pollination event is about to take place.

That way when the female flowers start to form,

then all of the beneficial insects that are pollinating

will actually get that job done.

So if you only have male flowers, the

female flowers might just not be there yet or they might not be ready to open. Now, sometimes

you have female and male flowers open at the same time, but they shrivel and die off.

That means that you actually have the opportunity to pollinate, but they aren't getting pollinated. That could be because you don't have any bees in the area so you may have to do a hand pollination.

So what you can do is you can break off the open male flowers and then take them and brush them into the female flowers.

Just do that and you'll hand pollinate and that will actually get the job done.

Now that's the pollination issue somewhat solved for you. Now what about

something else that might be causing it? If it's too hot above 90 degrees

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