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mikeandsher

Abnormal squash flowers

16 years ago

I am a first time back-yard gardener, and most everything is doing about as well as can be expected... but I have started having issues with the squash! The plants are putting out numerous flowers, and at first they were beautiful and normal, but now they bloom and the male and female parts are withered and brown. The petals and everything else are normal, but the essential parts are malformed. On some of the squash, the whole tiny flower turns brown before it even grows big enough to bloom. I have noticed a lot of tiny black ants crawling in and out of the larger flowers, and our other plants have aphids (I am waging war on them with ladybugs) but I haven't seen them on the squash yet. I searched around for ideas as to what this might be but so far nothing has come up. Any ideas? I appreciate any and all help!

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