Beginner Gardening: flowers on squash females blooming, no males blooming yet, 1 by jamibad

jamibad wrote:
OK, here's the squash, and I guess I should have taken pictures of the flowers too, as i'm out there on the ground with a very small paint brush in the rain we had trying to pollinate plants, LOL, too funny, glad my hubby wasn't home to question as to what I was doing, as in maybe tryin gto paint the fruit on, hehehehe, too funny, but the truth is, I didn't know what I was doing, so I guess if I show pictures of what I think is a male, and what I think is a female, and than go from there, I may understand what it is supposed to be doing.Some of the flowers have a baby squash, very tiny, and I did see some flowers with the thin stem, no baby squash, I just want to make sure I have this correct. The plant I'm showing in the pic has some new 1" size squash starting so maybe it's the bird and the bee thing already happening, and won't need my help. Also can you do this with cucumbers, and any other veg plant, I understand some plants have too small of a blossom to try this with, but just wondering. OK, here's the picture, and a few others, of things I have taken off the plant already or still on, I pulled a nice size cucumber and never got a picture of it on the plant before i pulled it :( Till the next time, thanks for the help, Ciao, Jami