How many seeds would you need to grow 1 sqaush plant?

Question

Ok my mom is making a soup with sqaush in it and I washed all the seeds and dried them with paper towls, how many seeds would I need to grow one squash plant?

Ok because some plants require 2 or more seeds to make 1 plant and I jsut wasn't sure.

Answer 1

Hi,

To grow a squash PLANT, you technically need only one seed. You could (should) plant 2 or 3 seeds in the pot and then pick out the weaker plant(s) and leave the strongest plant (at the 3 leaf stage).

Now, if you want a squash FRUIT (the squash itself is a fruit, even though we think of it as a vegetable), you will need at least 2 plants. One female plant, and one male plant are required to pollinate and make a squash FRUIT. In order to get one female plant and one male plant in your pots, you will have to go with luck and plant 3 or 4 pots of squash plants. You cannot tell whether the squash plants are male or female until they flower, so you need to have some back-ups just in case.

Keep the pots of plants in close proximity (near to each other), so that when they flower they will pollinate.

Hope this helps,
Lorax

Answer 2

1 seed is all u need 2 make 1 squash plant.

Answer 3

Any one seed that grows will do it. However as long as you are going to the labor of planting seeds most people put in three or four just to be sure that something grows in each hill since not all seeds germinate.

Answer 4

1 seed would make 1 plant

Answer 5

Sometimes you are better off to plant more than one seed because they do not germinate 100% of the time. Usually I plant two seeds when I want one plant.

Answer 6

Lorax is close. Squash plants are both male and female. However, I am not sure if all types of squash can pollinate themselves. You will probably need two plants to assure pollination.

Squash is an insect pollinated fruit so you will have to keep them outside for pollination to occur.