whats wrong with my squash?

Everything I've planted, except my yellow crooked neck squash , is growing well. The squash has been in ground for about 3 weeks (transplants) and I can't tell that they've grown at all ,they aren't as green as everything else and appear to be the same size I planted. I turned the soil before planting and added compost and some year old horse manure,I've mulched with old shredded paper and I water them on the average every other day. All my other transplants came from Bonnie nursery and are doing great the zuccinni plants are huge and my tomatoes and cucumbers are growing quite well, all in the same compost/ manure mix. Any ideas?
I had heard that seeded plantings match or surpass transplanted, but last year my transplants more than tripled production of my seeded plants.

I wonder if we are having the same problem--my squash is also bonnies, planted roughly a month ago--they have put on a couple of sets of leaves, but are still very small--they are flowering now but are shrimps! :~)

I don't have more leaves or flowers they look almost exactly like when I planted them.

even though mine are in a raised bed that I fertilized with superphosphate and blood meal and everything else is doing great, I fertilized them with some MG yesterday--hope this will help the little guys out--they are only about 3-4 inches tall...

They probably set on the shelf too long and are stunted. Transplanting squash is tricky, a little too old and they never do much. I would stick some seeds directly into the ground as insurance.

On the subject of squash. Does anyone know what's wrong with the plant when: The plant is huge and very healthy looking, but..the little squash that are beginning to show are turning yellow, drying up and falling off???? :( Thanks for your help!

I'm so glad I saw this post - I am having the exact same problem and mine were Bonnie's too

Daylily. The baby squash are aborted when they are not pollinated. Sometimes, with some cultivars, the females arrived before the males. You have to have both female and male flowers open at the same time. Squash blossoms only last a few hours in the morning. They are insect pollinated so insects such as bees need to working at this time. If not you may have to resort to hand pollination. Read some of the other threads on squash. There is a lot discussion going on in this forum.

Thank you Farmer. I did read further last night and thought that might just be the problem. Thanks for your input. So, the male flower has the long stamen and the female does not?? I saw in one post where they used the male, removed the surrounding flower petals and polinated the female with that. Worth a try. Can the heat affect the fact that the female opens before the male? Just curious with all this weird weather we've been having lately. Thanks for your help.

The female flowers have a tiny fruit behind the flower, the males attach directly to the stem. I seem short of bees this year, so I'll probably be hand-pollinating myself...

Maybe it was transplant shock? I put a VERY small amount of 10-10-10 fertilizer around them last week and have given them 2 or 3 doses of worm tea and they seem to be improving,I see new leaves and some vine growth. still no flowers or squash but I have cut 5 or 6 zuccinni since last weekend

I just spotted this thread, and I had to mention that I'm also extremely short on bees this year and will probably need to hand pollinate also. Not looking forward to that. :=(

I think the fertilizer did it for my squash too--I gave them some high nitrogen fertilizer (they were already flowering but very small) it has put on some more leaves and now has about 5 flowers--of course, the growth also came with 90 degree weather instead of 70's, so who knows

as for the bees, they are all over my nepeta and agastache, so I am thinking of putting one of those in my veggie garden to get them over there--only bumbles this year (haven't seen any honey bees)

Okay, I have a spaghetti squash vine growing in some great soil with homemade compost. Color is great and it has taken off, whereas the same plant
planted in my haybale is about the same size(hay probably not rotten enough) but the problem I'm addressing now is that this morning I went out and looked very
close at the vine and found a 2 1/2 inch slit in the stem where it changes direction. The vine doesn't look like its suffering any weakness and it doesn't look like
a bug ate it. Its just opened up!! I'm wondering if this is normal or should I try and tape it up?!

I think my squash, a starship patty pan, has downy mildew. What do you think? This is the only leaf out of 4 plants that I can tell is affected so far. Any suggestions for a good fungicide?

My squash looks great right now. Lots of big leaves, lots of male flowers. But it looked like this last year and then it crashed hard. Crossing my fingers it sticks around long enough to give a good harvest.

Ladybeetle

My spaghetti squash did the same thing (split at the stem). They are doing great putting out lots of squash. I did get powdery mildew on one plant and got rid of it so it wouldn't spread.

Lucy