Beginner Gardening: Trombocino, Trombetta di Albenga No mature females!, 1 by Horseshoe

Horseshoe wrote:
efarnsworth, it sounds like your high humidity could play a major role in your lack of pollination. Excessive humidity will tend to clump pollen, halting dispersal. I also wonder, and feel it is of more concern, if you have ample bees/bugs around as they tend to be the pollinators, normally most active in the morning hours.

"I promise they are much too small, hard and immature to even think about trying to pollinate them (and I've tried with a few that started to get a little bigger). You have to pry open the hard green bud. It doesn't help. "

You shouldn't need to pry open the buds for hand pollinating, let the bud become a flower and it will be very easy to work with. (see pic)

"What confused me about my squash not developing, is that I have tomatoes and peppers right next to them that are doing just fine. So it has to be something with the squash (probably)"

Your tomatoes and peppers are self-pollinizing, not relying on insects to produce their fruit, which is why they are doing well and your trombocino is not.

I hope you have enough season left to get some of those squash, you'll love them. I'd be patient and hopefully you can get true flowers (not buds) to work with.

Best,
Shoe