A fun gourd to grow. ***There is an error in this plants description *** the white flower bloom at night. Therefore needs night pollinato...Read Morers like moths or other night fauna. As a result, one or two fruit per vine is not unusual unless you want to hand pollinate. Fruit regularly reach length in excess of two feet. We grow it on a trellis, but heavier fruit may need support. Zucca is nearly flavorless so we use it as a Thickener for soups, stews and chili. We also place a couple in our Halloween pumpkin display.
My one vine produced three fairly large Zuccas for 2011. At first it was disapointing how the flowers I pollinated would die off. But the...Read Moren once I'd about given up some took on their own and produced the right shape. I have one big one hanging from an arbor and two that grew on the ground when the vine escaped from the arbor and took over my patio. The young fruits are fuzzy but then get smooth. It's been a very enjoyable gourd. I hope to grow more again next year.
With good soil in a full sun, well drained location, you can easily grow a giant Zucca gourd.
Though they can be grown on...Read More a trellis, you may wish to provide support for this fruit,
which can become quite large and of course, very heavy.
Zucca require a very long growing season. Our largest
fruit came from a vine that indeed used up a full 120 days
and then some.
A fun gourd to grow. ***There is an error in this plants description *** the white flower bloom at night. Therefore needs night pollinato...Read More
My one vine produced three fairly large Zuccas for 2011. At first it was disapointing how the flowers I pollinated would die off. But the...Read More
With good soil in a full sun, well drained location, you can easily grow a giant Zucca gourd.
Though they can be grown on...Read More
A 48 x 10 inch bottle gourd cylindrical bottle gourd grown for food. Similar to Longissima.