Zucchini Plant Anatomy. Only female squash blossoms mature into a squash. Those are the ones you want to pick and use for frying.
How to Plant Zucchini. Zucchini cultivars can even be found with skin that is striped. Cocozelle is quite long reaching 14 to 16 inches in length.
When a zucchini plant starts flowering for the first week or so those flowers are male flowers Shawn explains.
Female flowers have a thicker stem with a tiny unfertilized fruit below the flower. This is an immature fruit which if pollinated will become a beautiful edible squash zucchini or cucumber. After the chance of frost has passed plant two to three seeds 36 inches 92 cm apart. How to Plant Zucchini.