Kettle Gourd 'Kettle Gourd' (Langenaria siceraria)

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Apr 08, 2003

Kettle Gourd 'Kettle Gourd'
Langenaria siceraria

The coffee mug shows the relative size of the gourd.

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roadrunner Crossville, TN Apr 27, 2005

Kelli.....Here is a picture of two gourds I grew on the same vine...showing that the propagation was mixed...What I show as a birdhous gourd is on the right...and the one on the right looks like it has been mixed with a dipper gourd that wasn't trellised...as I do not trellis my birdhouses gourds.

Could your picture have been cross polinated with a Canteen Gourd? The shape looks like it and they grow about 7" X 7". I know that unless they are "true" seeds you can get a lot of different shapes from one seed.

What do you think??

P.S. I didn't grow Dipper Gourds this same year...so it had to be in the seeds.....Jo

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Apr 27, 2005

I don't remember the origin of the seeds I had except that they were supposed to be birdhouse gourds. All I remember is that I had to pollinate the flower in order to get a gourd.

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roadrunner Crossville, TN Apr 27, 2005

I saw a gourd shaped just like yours made into a bird house...and I mean it had lovely decorations on the outside. They had torn apart pine cones and used each "petal?" as a shingle on the roof...starting at the top...then painted a cottage on the outside...It looked like a story book cottage. I might try one....

How many gourds did you get from that one vine? Were they all the same? It could be crossed with a small Kettle Gourd? Jo

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Apr 27, 2005

I only got one gourd. Apparently there is nothing here that pollinates night-blooming, white-flowered gourds. I may have had more than one vine, but all I got was one gourd. I have never cut it open, but it feels like the walls of the gourd are rather thin. It is very lightweight.

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roadrunner Crossville, TN Apr 27, 2005

I have sent your pictured gourd to a friend that teaches "Growing Gourds" in our area...she will review it this evening and let me know.

Boy! so many gourds and some have different names for the same gourd!!

Jo

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Apr 27, 2005

O.K. It will be interesting to know.

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