Why Your Zucchini Fruits Keep Falling Off: The Pollination Mistake Every Morning Gardener Makes
You picked those zucchini flowers at dawn like the gardening guides suggested, but three days later every developing fruit fell off the vine. The culprit isn’t bad luck—it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how zucchini pollination works. Male and female flowers follow completely different rules, and harvesting at the wrong moment in the pollination cycle triggers the plant to abandon its fruit.
