It took me TWO YEARS to succeed growing loofah gourds, the plant with an interior fiber you use as a shower sponge. Through many trials and tribulations, I bring you my very first luffa sponge harvest, with some tips to help you avoid the mistakes I made along the way.
0:00 – Intro
0:48 – Plucking From Vine
1:09 – Luffa Challenge 2019
2:55 – Luffa Challenge 2020
4:00 – Luffa Growing Tips
6:01 – Cheryl’s Peel
6:37 – When to Harvest
7:03 – Luffa Peel
9:15 – Outro
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What should I challenge myself to grow next year and document for you guys?
there are early fruiting varieties out there. I was able to grow and harvest fruit in zone 3a. Transplanted in late June and harvested until frost in late Sept in Alberta Canada
Omg how cool! Someone surprised me with an unpeeled one today and I had no clue wth it was. Other than it was full of some kind of Gourd seeds! Lol this is gonna be a fun next year trying to grow this!
Green loofah can be used as a vegetable in soups! They are kinda soft and weirdly floppy, but they taste really nice and have a distinct aroma.
I Love watching your videos and learning. I'm a new gardener, so have tons to learn. I'm amazed by this plant. I used to purchase them not having a clue they're an actual plant!!! By the way I would Love to try to grow some. Where would I find seeds? Thank You so much for all your informative videos.
they take over your yard. at least here in alabama
good job man. kinda like lose weight. first time hard but when do you always know how do it. think every try cotton or flax and try grow shirt? got say I have no idea how do that. but big book farming. claim flax uses seeds source omega 3 fat acides put cereal salads other things. I no idea how get plant to fabric. but did see one time my life flax plant super stiff. when break steam pull out long blond look don't hair but what look like fibers that some how weave into fabric think.
Can you please tell us what planter you used ? Thank you
I got a packet of luffa seeds from Sow Right Seeds and every one I planted turned out to be a pumpkin ….
We called it sebot and we eat making soup and chutani many more.
So cool. I am even more excited to open my luffa. I live in Canada and just barely in an area where you can grow. I started mine insides in Feb when there was snow on the ground. And when the weather got warm I planted outside. I started with 10 and lost 5. They also grew really slow at the start. I got lots and lots and lots of flowers before I finally found now I have about 10 luffa on 5 plants and they are everywhere. 2 are crawling into my pine tree one along my fence. They are taking over the garden so much my husband wants to cut them away. I just want to get to the end and peel my luffa.
Yay! Congrats
Iv been loving watching my luffa grow. One transplant failed the 2nd was a success and a half! I have 2 luffa growing at the same time that are longer than my arm! When it starts putting effort in the newer luffas ill pop em and try to eat the younger ones
Oh! And i had like 4 more coming in and staying and the lawn guys cut the friggin vine! I was LIVID! Grrrrrrrrrr lol smh gonna pull up more grass 😉
oh yaaaa doing this
Omgosh, rotflmao @ the cucumber! I literally laughed out loud so hard! Hahaha! Thanks for sharing your failures. Good job on getting your one loofah, lol. Now I want to try to grow one in a container.
Saving this to sharing with my garden club kids. in our first raised beds, I kept our loofah alive through the summer, and we enjoyed drawing pictures of the bees they could watch as they grew on our playground fence. Now we are battling marauding squirrels and neighborhood vandals to harvest them. According to our Vietnamese teacher the petals are good in salads. They are sweeter than most edible flowers I have tried.
I’m having the opposite problem, my luffa just took off and took over my garden lol
Put them in your body? Wait what? haha js I have 2 huge ones over 2 feet that are still green. My first time too Im so excited.
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I would be so mad if someone ripped my hard work out of the ground
Later that day he named it Fred, and takes Fred everywhere with him.