Rookie question - flowers on squash plant

[TheSpottedZebra]

Hello Gardening folks, am hoping that you can help / advise me.
It's my first year growing veggies, apart from the odd tomato. My patty pan squash plants had seemingly been doing quite well, and I have plenty of flowers - a couple open and more on the way. All good so far. But the flowers are nearly all female - the male flowers are way off doing anything.

I guess this means no pollination, and thus no squash? Can I do anything about this? I could hand pollinate, but the male flowers really seem weeks off ready. Ought I to chop off the female flowers?

Thanks in advance...

Don't worry, this is common with members of the Curcubit family. They often start producing flowers of one gender only. After a few weeks they sort themselves out. Once you do get the first male and female flower open at the same time you could give them a bit of a helping hand but they will do it themselves eventually.

Ahh, thank you Wynken
I will relax a bit and try to refrain from looking at the plants every few hours, in the hope that the male flowers are on their way...