Zuchinni plant flowers?

I have a zuchinni plant. The flowers started blooming, they are HUGE and yellow.In the morning I see the bloomed ones, but when I get home in the afternoon they are shriveled and closed, but the inside pollen fuzz thing is still intact. Are they supposed to close?

FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy FlowersNormal, and they're probably males. The female blossoms start afterwards.
Reply:Yes. The flowers come right before the zucchini. If you pay attention, you'll see that a zucchini grows where each flower was. I noticed that the flowers love the morning sun and then close later in the afternoon and at night. These flowers don't last long. Before too long, they will shrivel up for good and fall off. A little while after that, zucchini starts to grow.
Reply:Yes this is were the zucchini grows from. The flower closes and shrivels and then you will soon see your zucchini forming.
Reply:yup. they stay open for a nice sunny day and hopefully will have been pollinated bu the end of the day so you'll get a beautiful vegetable.


tomorrow there will be lots more blooms.


actually some people pick the blooms in the morning and cook them. apparently they are quite delish when fried.
Reply:Yes! It is great you have blooms this means you are doing everything right. The bloom is supposed to close, if you leave it on, it will develop into a zucchini. If you see many blooms, you may want to remove some so that you end up with some large zucchini, that way the plant will not continue to put all of its energy into producing flowers, but will put its energy into growing the fruit. You will have to decide how many zucchini you want! Have fun, it is really exciting to watch them grow.
Reply:Yes, they close, dry up and fall off. Don't pick at them because that "pollen fuzz thing" is supposed to develop into the zucchini.





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