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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:13 Planting the Seeds
00:24 Sprouted Seedlings
00:37 Prepping Containers for Planting into
01:03 Making Soil to Plant in
01:24 Filling Container and Adding Fertilizer
01:43 Transplanting into the Container
02:18 Spraying Plants with Surround Kaolin Clay
02:48 Pruning Young Gourd Vines
03:11 Building a Trellis to Grow Up
03:49 Attaching the Vine to the Trellis
04:10 Gourd Plant Flowering after 70 Days
04:43 Large Gourd Growing on Trellis
05:04 Gourd Ripening
05:34 Harvesting the Gourd
05:49 Removing Seeds from the Gourd
06:44 Soaking the Gourd
07:09 Removing Skin from the Gourd
07:52 Disinfecting Gourd and Drying it Out
08:43 Making a Seed Starting Pot from the Gourd
09:33 Young Plant Growing in the Gourd Pot
10:24 Common Uses for the Luffa Gourd
10:41 Cleaning a Carrot for Tuck to Eat
11:45 How the Gourd is Edible
12:59 Additional Used for the Luffa Gourd
15:26 Final Thoughts
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41 Comments
I use luffas in pet birds toys.
Great idea to use them as plant seed containers instead of using plastic. ❤❤❤ for Tuck
Hi James I’m looking for bare root fruit trees like paw paw and chestnut tree súper budget thanks 🙏
Thanks James for sharing your experience with the luffa pots. Great idea! We’re going to be growing them next year. Can’t wait to test them as pots for seedlings!❤️ for the little boss
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James, Can the loofa grow in dappled shade?
I've been using luffas as mushroom pots for years and also indoor herb pot fillers. They're great for so much
❤❤❤❤ for Tuck and another great video!
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The seedling pot idea is super clever. It avoids plastic, lets you air prune seedlings and composts in place! Other ideas like that are great and would love to hear them!
I love eating loofah. Its so good. I planted two plants and it's covered three arch trellises and the back trellises that I had in the same raised beds for my tomatoes. They have completely taken over. Probably 75 to 100 loofah plus the ones I harvest to eat.
WAY better idea than tp roll recycle!! Incredible innovation, James (Tuck!)🎉
Second year w/o success with loofa. I think 6a is too short growing season and it had too much competition planted near pumpkin vines
Love the idea of using loofahs for starter pots! I thought Tuck was going to have a melt down over that carrot. 🤣 He does dearly love them! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
Have you tried crushing the Loofah and using it instead of coco coir in your soil mix?
Your videos are great and Tuck is the King of your garden.
I've tried growing them twice, still no luck. It was so exciting watching yours. I need to try again
Very cool!
Here in Brazil some people use it for handcraft like handbags. It’s very usual find them at the supermarket straighted and stitched in a piece of towel fabric for use in the shower.
You help bring out the best in Mother Nature!! ❤❤❤❤❤'s for Tuck!!
Luffas grow a large climbing vine. Their flowers are beautiful and make you think of the tropics. Plant in spring and harvest in late fall. I've been growing them for years and all my asian neighbors come by and pick what they want to eat. I harvest the sponges as you did at the end of the year with what I'm left with. Always plenty. I only recently found out about soaking them before peeling. All those sad years I did things the hard way. Love the soak method. Luffas are easy to grow and quite useful. Also, the kids can make money selling them.
I like that James,
I'll try the costada romanesco too. I grow specilaty zucchini this year that were supposed to producs a ton of delicious flowers but they didn't do diddly whereas my cheap conventional green zucchini from last year had us rolling in Flowers.
Of course it may have been the heat. The hear screwed up everything
Thanks as always, need to buy some!💜💚💙🩷🦋
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I've always grown angled luffa, called si gua or silk squash in Chinese, as a food crop. The seeds will germinate in 2-4 days, instead of 2-4 weeks, if you carefully clip open the shell with nail clippers to let water inside. Over the past couple years, because my compost has become difficult to move around the garden, I've simply planted them around the perimeter of the compost. For a trellis, I strung wall cables from the T-post stakes to the second floor windows and let the plants climb up them. They can grow clear across the roof of your house if you let them. I got so many luffas this year, I couldn't find them all to harvest them, so those are the ones I'm letting go to seed.
I would love to have space to grow luffas!
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you should have started a luffa seed in the luffa!
Nice video James! Just a question about your potting mix, do you put it in your compost heap when you are finished growing in it or can you just reuse it again by adding the 1/3rd of mushroom compost?
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@jamesprigioni does the clay prevent aphids from attacking the plants?
Great tutorial James. I think Tuck loves carrots more than I. ❤🥕Tuck and educational videos.
Love the seed pot idea👌 Mine self sow yearly
Very interesting and informative
Super video. Ja pestujem Lufu aj Okru. Pozdravujem z Slovakia.
I wonder what slugs and snails think of them?
Thanks for demystifying the luffa.
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Tuck likes the loofa!
I'm in Australia and would love to grow one of these. What is the botanical name for this plant. I would appreciate that. Cheers 😊
This tutorial is thorough and informative