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Sponge Gourd

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  • Sponge Gourd
  • Sponge Gourd requires a warm season with wide adaptability. Low temperatures, frost are harmful High humid conditions are favorable resulting in higher fruiting.
  • It grows well on a wide range of soil types. It should be well drained and fertile. The seedlings are grown directly. The spacing should be 50-60 cm between plants as well as rows. 
  • It being a creeper can be grown along the ground during summer or the vines can be trained on
  • artificially erected pandals, during monsoons.
  • It can be grown in pots too, in a 9 pot along the rim of the pot you can make a half round erect structure with wooden sticks on which the vines can grow. Sow three seeds into the pot and keep two healthy ones after germination. Keep in shade till germination and gradually expose to sun over a week and then always Keep in sunlight.
  • The fruits are harvested within 50-60 days of sowing.They should be harvested at tender and developing stage. Do not wait till fully developed fruits because they become spongy or fibrous which are unfit for vegetable making.
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Sow Method

Direct

Sunlight

Full Sunlight

Watering

Daily

Season

Spring Summer / Monsoon

Days to Harvest

50-60

Step by Step Growth Guide

1. Sowing

Sponge Gourd can be grown by direct method.

Take a pot with a minimum of 12" - 14" diameter. Fill it with POT-O-MIX (Growing Medium)

If in ground then prepare the seedbed (Refer to growing through seeds guidelines)

Sow 2 - 3 seeds at a depth of 0.8 cms at the centre of the pot. Cover lightly.

In ground keep a distance of 60 cms X 60 cms between plants as well as rows.

Water lightly.

2. Nurturing

The seeds will germinate in about 8 - 10 days.

Retain the healthy seedling and discard the weaker one.

Sponge Gourd need full sunlight to grow and daily watering

They need lot of space to grow. You can allow the vine to grow along the soil floor or place poles 2 meters tall and give wire / twine support in rows across the poles and train the vine to grow on it. The poles can be placed 2 mts apart. The twines can be tied on top of the poles too forming a roof like pattern to allow the vines to spread and fruits to hang.

If in pots, you can make similar trellis support.

After 30 days begin fertilisation. Choose from ORGANIC or INORGANIC options.

The harvesting can be done in 50 - 60 days from sowing. It can continue for next 3 months.