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Our Magda squash plant seems to be ailing. It has great vegetative growth and is producing 3 baby squash. The problem is that only one of them is healthy. Two of them are no longer firm, but have become soft and spongy. There is no outward sign that they are any different than the healthy one - no color change, no sign of fungal growth around the blossom end. We have cut them open and they appear normal, but spongy and soft. I can't find anything on the net that addresses this, perhaps someone out there can enlighten us. Our small, backyard garden is 3 raised beds with a drip watering system. Happy to provide further info. if it will help. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Our Magda squash plant seems to be ailing. It has great vegetative growth and is producing 3 baby squash. The problem is that only one of them is healthy. Two of them are no longer firm, but have become soft and spongy. There is no outward sign that they are any different than the healthy one - no color change, no sign of fungal growth around the blossom end. We have cut them open and they appear normal, but spongy and soft. I can't find anything on the net that addresses this, perhaps someone out there can enlighten us. Our small, backyard garden is 3 raised beds with a drip watering system. Happy to provide further info. if it will help. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Here are just a few posiblilties, and I am sure there are more: 1-squash bugs or squash bores (not spelled right) The bores you can't do a thing about but cry but the bugs, you can stray...The other is wet meldew but it doesn't sound like that...
Thanks for the response, Nita. I believe that the squash bugs and squash vine borer both affect the leaves to the point where the plant dies. My Magda's leaves look great. Only some of the fruit seem to be affected. They start out nice and firm and then begin to get soft and spongy and seem to sort of collapse inward. However, their color is still good and there are no blemishes right up to the end.
While we live in hot, dry W. Colorado, I know that we can still get fungal and bacterial diseases, but I can 't find any on-line that seem to fit what our squash is doing. Thank you for your in-put.
Sounds more like the squash didn't get pollinated. If your plant doesn't have many male flowers that can happen.
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