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My luffa didn't do c-rap! The vine looks healthy and all, just didn't seem to recover from all the damage it saw before I got it in the ground! I don't think it will ever catch up.
Yours looks wonderful!
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Posts: 2475 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
Since you are growing the luffa for the sponge you have to leave it out there until the plant dies off, and the squash is ripe and hard. I only grew them once, and, like most other squash I have grown, it was killed by the SVB, before it was anywhere near ripe.
Dave
Posts: 996 | Location: Zone 6b Woodbury, NJ | Registered: December 10, 2003
Isn't it cool to find one where you didn't think there were any? I found numerous baby eggplants today. Hope they hang in there 'cause I haven't been watering as much as I should and one of them looks wilty (is there such a word?)
Anyway, congrats on your Luffa and on your ablility to stay on the ladder long enough for the picture.
Connie Checking my emails from now on~find me at connieczajkowski at yahoo.ca
WOW!! That looks great! I'm very excited for you!!
My luffa vines are growing, blooming fairly heavily I think, but a lot of the blossoms fall off - don't think that's supposed to happen - and I don't see any gourds at all.
Posts: 1092 | Location: gardening by moonlight in Maryland (Zone 6) | Registered: May 13, 2006
Nice plant. Okay, now my newbie is showing...Luffa's grow on bushes? I always thought they were from the sea, like sponges. So, basically, you grow a plant and then pull off the gourde and let it dry? How fun an interesting.
Posts: 162 | Location: Foothills of Northern Ca. | Registered: March 03, 2007
"I found numerous baby eggplants today. Hope they hang in there 'cause I haven't been watering as much as I should and one of them looks wilty (is there such a word?)"
From the 2007 American Standard Organic Gardener's Dictionary:
wilty |wil•tee| -adjective 1. culpable of neglect in irrigating or watering one's organic garden vegetables, flowers or lawn
Posts: 918 | Location: Zone 7 - Charlotte, NC | Registered: March 28, 2007
It's tiny. I was JUST thinking in my head that this luffa gourd idea was turning out to be a gigantic overgrown mess when I spied it!! It's about 7 inchs long and about 1 inch in diameter - so still pretty small. I've looked and looked every day - often several times a day, but there's still just this one gourd.
Lisaann - how many do you have??
Posts: 1092 | Location: gardening by moonlight in Maryland (Zone 6) | Registered: May 13, 2006
GT, you know how to find something? Stop looking! I have 2 Belgium Giant tomato plants for another contest I am in and looked every day for any sign of a tomato. Finally I said screw it and ignored them over a whole weekend. On Monday there were several babies.Now if this only worked on lost objects like my glasses, I would be set.
Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
