Hey friends! I decided to make a glowing lamp from one of the gourds too! It was a pretty fun process - you can see the video here where I show you how I did it! :) ruclips.net/video/-pdu23_BLNs/видео.html
@@dumahm9043 Im messing with you. If it dries into a seal Im sure its fine, but really I dont know. Just grow your gourds and try it out. If one wax doesnt cut it compost that bad boy and grab another gourd from the pile. Have fun :-)
I can’t believe he didn’t drink for a whole year just to show off his water bottle gourd!! His dedication to his fans makes me so ecstatic that people like him are so sweet for millions of people they don’t even know!! 🥰🥰🥰
I'm African (Nigerian to be precise) and we use this to drink water and palm wine in a traditional way. Some people use glass to drink theirs but I prefer using this all the time. It keeps me in tune with nature when I use it. Thank you for sharing this. ❤
Wow are you saying that your country actually shares a custom with mine? Im pretty amazed. If you ever watch chinese movies of archaic theme, youll see that ancient chinese use dried calabash as standard bottles for water tea and spirits. Im just wondering how do they empty the insides lol, and maybe you can tell me how you African Nigerians do it :)
@@Comte_de_Lorenzo In Peru (a South American country) these calabash have been used for thousands of years as plates or bottles. In some places they are still made for souvenirs or decorations.
For the last one use some holes to make a patterns then drill out the base enough to accommodate a small bulb or candle and you'll have an awesome looking lamp.
@@TheKiwiGrower There's a small museum in Gifu owned by a man who makes beautiful lamps out of gourds! It's called the Hyotan Lamp Museum in Yoro, Gifu :D
these are called HuLu in chinese, and its a familiar bottle for us farm kids to see here in Taiwan way back. Our grandfather would bring one of these filled with tea and a warped rice box made out of banana leaves with is steamed together in a bamboo box for lunch, so its actually interesting to see for me that these natural bottles arn’t native to Asia! Btw the seeds are great as a stir frie sides, produce this amazing sweet smell when you fry it in high heat.
I live in Kenya and we use them for drinking porridge and fetching water from springs. Amazing work! Sadly, they were more popular with my grandma's generation and now it's just plastic everywhere. I just planted a few in my garden and I can't wait to go crazy with all the possibilities you've shared. Thank you for sharing!!
For the last gourd some ideas: - A torch/candle holder - bongos (upside down using the long thin side as the stand to hold the bongos - A warhorn - I don't know if you have a pet hamster or something like that but it could be made into a tube for it to run through - A weird but cool basketball hoop
also, please be aware of the mold and dust inside the gourd while cleaning it out. always smart to use protection to prevent moldy dust entering your lungs while working with these. as someone with permanent lung damage from mold, I'm always reminding people not to take mold lightly. better safe than sorry!
I believe its because the skin on his hands hardened over the years duo to the honest work he does with his hands. A friend of mine is working as a cleaner and the amount of presure this job does on his hands is more than i thought. he can hold a hot cup of coffee like its nothing
Glass doesn't transfer heat well and he touched the top of the glass which was always exposed to the cold air. Also the water wasn't boiling, as the difference in temperature from top to bottom would have caused the glass to shatter.
These gourds were very popular in rural areas in Mexico long time ago. I remember my grandfather and some older neighbors storing them and carrying them around just exactly the way is described in the water bottle option, with a rope weaved around and a long loop to carry on your shoulder. My mentality was so different back in those days since I thought it was an antiquated way to carry drinking water and never understood why my grandfather just didn't carry a plastic canteen. I'm so glad I ran into this video and my next garden project will be to find me some of those seeds and grow my own drinking gourds. Btw, I think my grandpa called it a "guaje".
OMG!!! I'm from South Africa and my grandmother used to grow these gourds. Once dried, they were used to store water and ferment milk into a drink called Amasi, which is like a sour milk that can keep for a while. They are also used to make painted ornaments like vases and bowls, and we have several such vases in out house. Super cool video.
I just watched a man grow a plant i dont care about and make things that arent very exciting either like a water bottle and still being incredibly entertained the whole time, very impressive
I find it extremely impressive given how huge an issue plastic bottles are right now and this has apparantly just been a thing for thousands of years so why the hell are we still using plastic it tastes so bad like what??
This is quite possiby one of the coolest homestead/home-gardening videos i've ever seen. An idea for the final gourd might be a shaker or a different gourd based music instrument, like a drum or a stringed instrument, if you're feeling like doing the work on either of those.
eats called a dugdugi, a stringed instrument in rural bengal. when I googled it sadly I only found folk songs describing the dugdugi but no actual pictures. i saw them a lot as a child.
@@nandanbhardwaj8464 that's really sad. Lots of different cultures actually have bottle gourd instruments, but thanks you for sharing about the Dugdugi, we have a really similar instrument in Sri Lanka.
I remember the days when me and my little brother use to visit our grandma in the village. She use to grow and harvest these, and even keep the dried ones for us to make water bottles for school.😭 Last year I lost my grandma and it is the most heart breaking thing ever.
Seeds for these plants are often sold as *birdhouse gourds*, and they take a long time to sprout _unless you soak them._ From my first attempt at growing them, in 2021, I only got 2 small gourds because they did not get much light where I had planted them. Germination rate was low from the purchased seeds, which only had 4 to 6 seeds per package. I bought several packages and planted them all. Only 3 of the seeds ever came up and one died. They grow very slowly. After they stopped growing, I cut them off the vines and air dried them for several months, then harvested many seeds, as the video shows, except through a small hole in the side of the large section. Many of the seeds were not fully mature, as became evident later. I made the gourds into houses for small birds and hung them up outside in a semi-protected area away from the house, but the birds have ignored them so far. In early spring 2022, I started my second attempt. I soaked all the seeds for 2 weeks, which resulted in the water looking like brewed black tea. I drained it off and rinsed the seeds, then let them dry slightly. It was obvious that about half were not good seeds, more like paper shells, possibly due to the poor location of the parent plants. Then I planted all the good seeds next to a chain link fence in a very sunny area, and they came up quickly and reliably. Unfortunately, a mole disturbed the young roots and only 4 survived from the 3 dozen seedlings. Now (mid June 2022) those 4 plants are starting to climb the fence, and they are looking good so far. I water them a little every almost every day, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. Occasionally I skip watering for one day. I will try to post updates to this message, later.
@@jo40p3dr0 They climbed up the fence for a couple of months, then we got a lot of rain, and they all died. I guess they should be planted in a mound or something, so the roots get drainage.
@@YodaWhat If you find the right place you can literally just plant a bunch and some will survive without much interference other than of course watering occasionally during dry streaks.
I grew up seeing these gourds in old Chinese TV shows and loved the look,they were used to hold water/alcohol etc and the mini ones were even used to hold 'poison' so it was a great bit of nostalgia for me. It's so cool to see it grow from seed! Always appreciate the work you put into each video 🙏
Just stumbled upon this video.. it brings back the memories of my childhood in my village in Southern India. The dried whole bottle guard is used as a floatation device like a pool noodle for younger kids to learn swimming. Very effective though.. Also, the bottle is used by people who extract coconut flower sap and the bottle is usually tied around their waist.. thanks to you
In China they throw you into the lake and hope you don’t drown. If it looks like you’re about to though, they’ll come down and pull you up at the last second, then throw you back in again. I think some people died via this method, but it’s effective.
From food and water bottles to clothes and furniture we're so dependant on plants that it would be impossible to imagine life without them, Nice video 👍🏼 .
The fruits/vegetables from the Gourd family is very useful. In India, it has a wide range of uses from making musical instruments to body sponges from some of those varieties.👍
Yes it is called lau in Bengali and is used to make curries and even instruments like ektara . Jhinga another kind of gourd is used to make body sponge
This is a traditional plant from our culture since ancient times in Eastern Africa while growing up our fence was literally made of many of these plants and even other types that grow the even more bigger ones, today there are just on one side because the rest was cut down for some constructions... and in our culture the small ones are used to store wine and the bigger ones used to skim milk in order to make butter....
@@ernestkhalimov1007 no but Rwanda... that is where those plants originates in the mountains ⛰ same goes to Burundi and some part of Uganda and DRC... also known as the great lakes region
@@razorreaper8440 how long do they last as a wine container and how do you clean them? I'm planning to grow some next year to try making my own and I like making wine :)
7:46 Seal innards with melted beeswax 8:24 Polish with mixture of one parts beeswax to 4 parts fractionated (prevents oil rancidity?) coconut oil (Or mineral oil). Leave for a while and then buff it up.
In southern Brazil, since the indigenous times we still cultivate the tradition of using the gourd as a container called "cuia" in which we prepare a drink called "chimarrão". The same gourd is used in northeast Brazil to pruduce an musical instrument called "berimbau" that is used on a fight style called "capoeira" (the fighting style used by Elizeu Capoeira and Marcos Aurelio). Cheers from Brazil!
9:17 is so ASMR worthy, the cork pop and the water moving in the bottle, satisfying and calming, that was so asmr awesome, and it was all from the gourd, that's crazy.
This worldwide plant in the video is called 葫芦 HuLu in China and has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years. Popular streaming platforms also picked up the name. I especially recommend you to get some Chinese hulu seeds, its fruit has a very good taste and shape.
I’m growing bottle gourd for the 1st time in zone 6B. So far, I have 7 good sized ones. I can’t wait to make actual water bottles and bird houses. Thank you for this video. Very informative!
Here in south Brazil (and also at Uruguai) we use these in large scale to drink a sort of tea called Chimarrão. There's a new moviment trying to introduce a industrial manifactured substitutes, but in general everybody here prefers to do it as we've always done, with a natural "cuia" made out of "porongo".
That “scoop” would make an awesome soup bowl with a handle! Overall this video was very cool and a really interesting demonstration of how past civilizations would have made use of these gourds.
You'd have to use another sealant other than bees wax tho, unless you want to only use it for gazpacho and other cold soups, also a spoon would easily scape the beeswax off.
The Soup scoop gourd would be awesome to use in a soup kitchen to let the people in need to see that gourd give them a big scoop of food, nice way to measure a large scoop.
I've been growing these things for a few years and my basement is now full of the dried husks and many, craft projects. Bottles, birdhouses, drums, shakers, stringed instruments... Super cool!
Thanks so much for the water bottle tutorial! Last summer I grew (what I thought were Apple gourds) very large gourds. I must have 15 gourds which are currently drying in my house. I originally was planning to make bird houses out of them, but after watching your video, will make a couple of bowls and a water bottle or two, as well. I appreciate you - be well! 😊
Hello, Nancy I know it seems like a big ask but if you have any would there be anyway I could buy them from you? If I could, what would be the price? If you don't have any or don't want to give me one, do you still have the seeds or know where I could get the seeds.
It has been a part of our lives the Zomi. We call it the tribal refrigerator. It's still widely used in the villages to store water and keep it cool especially when going to the farm.
turned out amazing! took a agriculture class waaaay back in middle school but watching this channel makes me want to start a small vegetable garden in my backyard
This is amazing, when I first watched this video I got so excited and told my partner I'm going to grow my own water bottle, they didn't even question it I think your other ideas like the bird feeder and plant holder are so cool I'm going to try this
we always use them as lanterns. cut the bottom drill a hole on top and put a light bulb in it. If you can drill several shapes on it like stars etc. this would be very nice :)
there's also a special type of gourd, extremely elongated, which was used to pull rakija out of the barrels without needing a faucet. worked like pulling gas out of the gas tank. once you thought you filled it, you plugged the mouth end with the thumb and now had a full gourd of rakija to pour into a bottle, without needing a funnel too.
In Colombia, we use the fruit of a plant called Totumo, also called Jícaro (Crescentia cujete). The fruit of this plant has an external hard skin (Cortex) and a internal soft. Basically, we clear the intern zone of the fruit to use the cortex to store many stuffs, like milk, water, to do cheese. This plant has so many variants with many forms, in some cases the totumos are used to do spoons, mugs and cups. I'm sorry if the idea isn't clear, I'm only learning the language.
@ricardo6310 Ud. escribe muy bien en ingles. Al empezar el espanol yo estudiaba en la escuela pero todavia hay muchas palabras y expresiones nuevas que encuentro. Frecuentemente son de origen indigena. Por ejemplo, me parece que la palabra Totumo es una palabra indigena de los indios de su pais. Una correccion es que tenemos en ingles dos verbos distintos para hacer. To do es hacer una accion y to make es hacer o fabricar un objeto. Asi es mejor decir "to make spoons, mugs and cups," y "to do my homework." No es necesario preocuparse por esto porque con la practica se adapata. Otro error es que usamos "an" cuando la siguiente palabra empieza con una vocal. Escribio correctamente "an external hard skin" pero necesita escribir "an internal soft." Sin embargo no es un error que afecta el sentido. Me puede hacer el favor de corregirme a mi tambien porque sin usar diariamente el espanol resulta que hago muchos errores todavia. @ricardo6310
@ricardo6310 No se preocupe. Yo he estudiado el espanol por muchos anos y sigo intentando mejorar. Poco a poco. Ud. se expresa bien y su mensaje es excelente. He oido mencionar la palabra Jícaro pero no Totumo. En muchos lugares usan palabras indigenas que se varian porque hay muchos grupos distintos.
Here in Bangladesh 🇧🇩my grandma used to make jar from dried gourd to store grains, lentils,rice etc. I never saw the making process (because hardly I go to granny's house) thanks for sharing this video
It makes a surprisingly satisfying set of sounds when you open it and take a drink. I had no idea these existed until seeing this video, and now I want to grow some!
In Wikipedia it shows how some are actually used in percussion instruments and to help sound resonate sound in other instruments too such as the guitar and the flute.
My grandfather used to sell this back when we had Fruits and Vegetable shop. He passed away few years ago and the shop is closed since then but looking at it still brings back memories 😃
As someone who loves repurposing items and collecting plants, I found joy watching how you turned a bottle gourd into a water bottle. I hope you can share more videos turning plants into helpful items around the house! Keep up the great work 👍
Hah, I thought for a long time that Gourds were rough pottery. Didn't expect them to be organic. I wonder how much one of those can last before rotting away or crumbling. Cool
Gourds like the one you used for the scoop were used as dippers to drink from natural springs. I drank from one at a neighbor's house when I was a child.
I was just reading about these in Jared diamond’s guns gems and steel and thought I’d look it up, I appreciate all the effort you put into this, and the historical context you put it in to.
We still use them in villages in Zimbabwe, Africa. And I must say drinking natural fresh spring water from one is awesome. The water seems to taste different
I DM u on IG mentioning this bottle gourd is shown on alot of old chinese movies. but now i got to know how they are made waterproof and how its so shiny! thank u Kalem ! this is so cool !
This summer I kept waiting for my gourd plant to pollinate. When it didn't show sign of fruiting I pulled it to make room for other vining plants. Sad! It was a good-looking plant. For the sake of gourds I'll grow it again next year. Thank you for sharing. Your gourds are beautiful.
This gourds can be made in an utensil to extract a liquid and the pour it in glasses, in my country usually used for wine. For that you need a gourd that has one of the ends elongated and the other close to a sphere. You cut the end of the elongated part and drill a hole that can be blocked with a finger on the other end. You insert the gourd in the liquid with the second hole left open then block the hole with the finger and yey, you can lift the liquid and then pour it by partially unblocking the second hole when on top of a glass.
@@MM-rr1kp The finger acts as a valve, it is not in contact with the liquid, it regulates how much air will enter in the contraption and will then allow the liquid to flow.
I find lots of those right outside etris, they always grow in the bush near that bridge. Calabashes always come in clutch when you're exploring islands as they fill up your food and water bars pretty well.
For that last big one, you can drill a 1/2 inch hole and screw a tap to it and use it as a water can. The stored water is naturally good and will be soothing too. 👍 By the way, appreciate your awesome efforts towards the nature. The video was pretty informative and had lots of take away to current and next generations too. God bless you! 🙏🙏🙏👌👏
This looks so cool! I've always liked and wondered how they were made when I was a kid, seeing them from animated movies and films. Glad RUclips recommended this to me. Really reminds me of a peanut 🥜. What pop up on my head for that gourd was a pitcher, hammer, a foot massager (where you roll it, but I think it would be kinda silly with this gourd), and a vase. Thanks for this video!
Always thought the Calabash was this perfect shape. I think farmers must have some kind of mold to form it desirably. Great video and interest too. Worth researching further
Here's an idea for that large gourd. TWO items out of the one gourd! Item 1: cut the gourd about in the middle of the neck between the bulbs and make the top part into a type of funnel by cutting off about half of the top bulb. Item 2: cut the bottom bulb about in half for another, larger bowl, and bonus, use the top half of the bottom bulb into another funnel!
My grandfather had a few of these and I always thought they were so cool. He told me that that’s exactly how they cleaned them inside, with the rocks and they used them to bring water when they were going to work in the field
Have just caught the bottle gourd bug. Lots online for us obsessives, and this video is fabulous - sparkling clear photography too thank you. Prices of home grown gourds here in the UK are crazy - I had to pay £90 for 3, two 15" ones and a 10" one, inc. shipping, which actually was under £6. The 10 incher is going to be my water bottle, but the two very large ones will need some thought. I can fully understand why people become so engrossed in gourd growing and decorating - there is some unknown primeval fascination, deeply rooted in our being. Am delighted to have become a 'gourdsman'.
2L is like the perfect size. That's a whole day's worth of drinking water so long as it's not too hot out. And I like that the gourd makes cartoonish bottle noises when filled with water.
We call that “endeku “ in my language and it’s used to take alcohol. Locally brewed beer from banana and yeast. Among the cattle keepers in my country, it’s used to drink cold milk 🥛 😊
wow that's actually insanely cool! I really love all the uses you found for them too, that's an amazing plant! It must be so heavy to hold that much water, but i think it would be really cool for hiking :D
Cheers mate, it's surprisingly not too heavy and awkward even with it full of water. Yea maybe I should take it on a hike. I'd look like a total bushman then haha :)
Nice bro. I’ve enjoyed this type of living since I was a teen and I felt the same way then too. But people will realise overtime that you were onto something all along :)
I love the bowl, it seems like a very practical utility. Could see myself serving nuts, popcorn, or chips on it. Maybe a bowl of cereal! Thanks for sharing
People use this in Brazil for a million uses. You can cut the middle and use as a bowl. It you cut it lengthwise and drill holes in the more narrow part it can be used to wash rice.
Would this also work for hot drinks or would the heat dissolve the wax? Either way, this is an amazing video, definitely trying this out!! Not only are you cultivating an awesome plant, but also a piece of age-old human culture, thats really really cool.
I would say hot water might dissolve it a little or at least soften it, so probably more suitable for regular drinks. Thanks for the comment, so cool to try something out that's been done for millennia!
No, no! Anything like that, that has a beeswax coating inside it is for cold liquid only! This is something that is sometimes asked with leather water bottles, which have the same coating inside, as well as drinking horns, which have the same. Why you would want to put so much hot liquid inside something like that though is bizarre. It'd get cold! Nah...cold liquids only with these!
@@RunBoy - well yeah, lol! Once it's been treated with beeswax, I wouldn't go leaving t out in the sun (when empty of liquid) or stored in a hot car or anything. You gotta look after it a bit! It's now a beautiful treasure!
This videos never fail to amaze me. Ever since I found your channel I've been wanting to grow something but I'm very limited on space unfortunately due to being in a flat with no balcony and not alot of decent sunlight. I need to do some research because you are really making me want to grow stuff.
Thanks a lot, and awesome to hear you want to grow some stuff. I'm thinking of making a video that might help people who don't really have a growing space, so will look into that at some stage :). Maybe you could look into microgreens :). Lots of fun to grow, can grow them indoors in a sunny window, and you can get a decent harvest from them too
Use the scoop for your chook food. 😁 That big one you could turn into a strawberry planter with a few strategically placed holes. Another great start-to-finish vid! 👍👍 Keep 'em comin'. (Oh, and, happy new year. 😀)
such a fantastic idea, the organic look is just amazing to be honest i wonder how they'll turnout if you paint them with some monotone colors close to the original one
Gardening and growing stuff is the most boring thing for me. Somehow, this man got me to watch the whole video with interest and awe. Awesome work dude! That bottle looks so cool! I want one now!
@surajshergill7777 As a child I was alone a lot and was lucky to live in an area that was not yet totally spoiled by modern agricultural methods. I was able to observe a lot of forms of wild life and seeing plants grow was amazing to me. That a tiny seed could become a big plant with beautiful flowers and fruit in only a few months is still a great mystery and like a miracle to me.
Really appreciate your videos, esp as they are made after taking clips of more than a year. Im from Pakistan and bottle guards here are usually eaten in a curry. There is also another variety here, a longer one that can grow up to 60-70cm long. I reckon we can make pipes out of them :D
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Hey friends! I decided to make a glowing lamp from one of the gourds too! It was a pretty fun process - you can see the video here where I show you how I did it! :) ruclips.net/video/-pdu23_BLNs/видео.html
Hi, can we use vegan wax instead of beeswax? to coat the inside of the water bottle? 🙈
@@dumahm9043 Nope, wont work.
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😭😭😭😭 Whyyyyyy not ? 😭😭😭😭 It's not fair 😾😾😾😾😾
@@dumahm9043 Im messing with you. If it dries into a seal Im sure its fine, but really I dont know. Just grow your gourds and try it out. If one wax doesnt cut it compost that bad boy and grab another gourd from the pile.
Have fun :-)
I haved this in my home🙆🙆
I can’t believe he didn’t drink for a whole year just to show off his water bottle gourd!! His dedication to his fans makes me so ecstatic that people like him are so sweet for millions of people they don’t even know!! 🥰🥰🥰
Lol
Did you just say "he didn't drink for a whole year"? That's amazing to be ALIVE after a year WITHOUT DRINKING.
@@johnlloyd2841 IKR!!
@@johnlloyd2841 I think he means drinking Alcohol or possible sweet and unhealthy drinks?
@@johnlloyd2841 it’s a joke
I'm African (Nigerian to be precise) and we use this to drink water and palm wine in a traditional way. Some people use glass to drink theirs but I prefer using this all the time. It keeps me in tune with nature when I use it. Thank you for sharing this. ❤
Wow are you saying that your country actually shares a custom with mine? Im pretty amazed. If you ever watch chinese movies of archaic theme, youll see that ancient chinese use dried calabash as standard bottles for water tea and spirits. Im just wondering how do they empty the insides lol, and maybe you can tell me how you African Nigerians do it :)
@@Comte_de_Lorenzo In Peru (a South American country) these calabash have been used for thousands of years as plates or bottles. In some places they are still made for souvenirs or decorations.
Please guy above me tell me you're joking
@@bossfight5736 I'm just asking what do you mean.
@@SorakaOTP462 it is easy. They just make a router out of mud and sticks. 😊
For the last one use some holes to make a patterns then drill out the base enough to accommodate a small bulb or candle and you'll have an awesome looking lamp.
That would be epic as, thanks for the idea! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower you can use it as a floater for swimming.
Had the same idea, it's a pumpkin after all! So you can use it for Halloween - but every year :D
It s called gourdart 😉
@@TheKiwiGrower There's a small museum in Gifu owned by a man who makes beautiful lamps out of gourds! It's called the Hyotan Lamp Museum in Yoro, Gifu :D
As someone who lives in the industrial cities, seeing people make stunning tools and stuff out of freaking plants and grown stuff is so cool.
Looking at how versatile this plant is, no wonder its one of the first cultivated plants
@championchap wow our ancestors are so smart
@@freeeggs3811 were,and yes our ancestors are often underestimated in terms of intelligence
@@ricochettheprotogen4928 It’s Rewind Time
@@zackzoom8779 We are animals...
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these are called HuLu in chinese, and its a familiar bottle for us farm kids to see here in Taiwan way back.
Our grandfather would bring one of these filled with tea and a warped rice box made out of banana leaves with is steamed together in a bamboo box for lunch, so its actually interesting to see for me that these natural bottles arn’t native to Asia!
Btw the seeds are great as a stir frie sides, produce this amazing sweet smell when you fry it in high heat.
That's awesome!
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My grandparents have a shrine in their home and it has one of those which was cool
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@@zaberraiyan2570 please stop, i’m so sick of these social credit memes, people milked it so hard, now it’s just irritating instead of funny.
I live in Kenya and we use them for drinking porridge and fetching water from springs. Amazing work! Sadly, they were more popular with my grandma's generation and now it's just plastic everywhere.
I just planted a few in my garden and I can't wait to go crazy with all the possibilities you've shared. Thank you for sharing!!
For the last gourd some ideas:
- A torch/candle holder
- bongos (upside down using the long thin side as the stand to hold the bongos
- A warhorn
- I don't know if you have a pet hamster or something like that but it could be made into a tube for it to run through
- A weird but cool basketball hoop
also, please be aware of the mold and dust inside the gourd while cleaning it out. always smart to use protection to prevent moldy dust entering your lungs while working with these. as someone with permanent lung damage from mold, I'm always reminding people not to take mold lightly. better safe than sorry!
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nobody gonna question how this man grabbed a boiling glass with his bare hand without getting burnt. Absolute unit
He also shoved a cactus into a gourd with his bare hand
I believe its because the skin on his hands hardened over the years duo to the honest work he does with his hands. A friend of mine is working as a cleaner and the amount of presure this job does on his hands is more than i thought. he can hold a hot cup of coffee like its nothing
@@demanien7722 honest work 😌
Glass doesn't transfer heat well and he touched the top of the glass which was always exposed to the cold air. Also the water wasn't boiling, as the difference in temperature from top to bottom would have caused the glass to shatter.
@@AFlyingCoconut12 year old me who got 3rd degree burns from holding a glass candle : what
These gourds were very popular in rural areas in Mexico long time ago.
I remember my grandfather and some older neighbors storing them and carrying them around just exactly the way is described in the water bottle option, with a rope weaved around and a long loop to carry on your shoulder. My mentality was so different back in those days since I thought it was an antiquated way to carry drinking water and never understood why my grandfather just didn't carry a plastic canteen.
I'm so glad I ran into this video and my next garden project will be to find me some of those seeds and grow my own drinking gourds.
Btw, I think my grandpa called it a "guaje".
Here in Northeastern Brazil it was common too in the rural zones. We call it "cabaça(s)"
In Uganda it’s called “endeku”
@@KharisPsalm in somalia abitan
These are really femous in rural area of india.
In english its called a gourd
OMG!!! I'm from South Africa and my grandmother used to grow these gourds. Once dried, they were used to store water and ferment milk into a drink called Amasi, which is like a sour milk that can keep for a while. They are also used to make painted ornaments like vases and bowls, and we have several such vases in out house. Super cool video.
Now you can make some amazing painted objects from them yourself that future generations will admire!
I just watched a man grow a plant i dont care about and make things that arent very exciting either like a water bottle and still being incredibly entertained the whole time, very impressive
I find it extremely impressive given how huge an issue plastic bottles are right now and this has apparantly just been a thing for thousands of years so why the hell are we still using plastic it tastes so bad like what??
This is quite possiby one of the coolest homestead/home-gardening videos i've ever seen. An idea for the final gourd might be a shaker or a different gourd based music instrument, like a drum or a stringed instrument, if you're feeling like doing the work on either of those.
Thanks so much! Cool idea too, will see how I go
eat raw meat?
eats called a dugdugi, a stringed instrument in rural bengal. when I googled it sadly I only found folk songs describing the dugdugi but no actual pictures. i saw them a lot as a child.
@@nandanbhardwaj8464 that's really sad. Lots of different cultures actually have bottle gourd instruments, but thanks you for sharing about the Dugdugi, we have a really similar instrument in Sri Lanka.
@@nandanbhardwaj8464 damn I still see them sometimes on my village here in Bangladesh being played with by some local kid's!!!
I remember the days when me and my little brother use to visit our grandma in the village. She use to grow and harvest these, and even keep the dried ones for us to make water bottles for school.😭 Last year I lost my grandma and it is the most heart breaking thing ever.
Sorry for your loss. What a great memory to have
Sorry to hear about your grandma my man.
That's such a sweet story!
Me too buddy I lost mine in November
Love from Canada
Seeds for these plants are often sold as *birdhouse gourds*, and they take a long time to sprout _unless you soak them._ From my first attempt at growing them, in 2021, I only got 2 small gourds because they did not get much light where I had planted them. Germination rate was low from the purchased seeds, which only had 4 to 6 seeds per package. I bought several packages and planted them all. Only 3 of the seeds ever came up and one died. They grow very slowly. After they stopped growing, I cut them off the vines and air dried them for several months, then harvested many seeds, as the video shows, except through a small hole in the side of the large section. Many of the seeds were not fully mature, as became evident later. I made the gourds into houses for small birds and hung them up outside in a semi-protected area away from the house, but the birds have ignored them so far. In early spring 2022, I started my second attempt. I soaked all the seeds for 2 weeks, which resulted in the water looking like brewed black tea. I drained it off and rinsed the seeds, then let them dry slightly. It was obvious that about half were not good seeds, more like paper shells, possibly due to the poor location of the parent plants. Then I planted all the good seeds next to a chain link fence in a very sunny area, and they came up quickly and reliably. Unfortunately, a mole disturbed the young roots and only 4 survived from the 3 dozen seedlings. Now (mid June 2022) those 4 plants are starting to climb the fence, and they are looking good so far. I water them a little every almost every day, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. Occasionally I skip watering for one day. I will try to post updates to this message, later.
Cool!!
❤️❤️ Good luck
It's been seven months, how is it going?
@@jo40p3dr0 They climbed up the fence for a couple of months, then we got a lot of rain, and they all died. I guess they should be planted in a mound or something, so the roots get drainage.
@@YodaWhat If you find the right place you can literally just plant a bunch and some will survive without much interference other than of course watering occasionally during dry streaks.
I grew up seeing these gourds in old Chinese TV shows and loved the look,they were used to hold water/alcohol etc and the mini ones were even used to hold 'poison' so it was a great bit of nostalgia for me. It's so cool to see it grow from seed! Always appreciate the work you put into each video 🙏
Lol I always thought it was made from clay. I didn’t know it was from a fruit
And if you watch old Chinese martial arts films, it's always held by the drunken master.
LoL yes I saw it too , in many old kungfu movies , its hanging in their waist.
Thanks heaps, glad you liked it! :)
I always thought it's pottery!
Just stumbled upon this video.. it brings back the memories of my childhood in my village in Southern India. The dried whole bottle guard is used as a floatation device like a pool noodle for younger kids to learn swimming. Very effective though..
Also, the bottle is used by people who extract coconut flower sap and the bottle is usually tied around their waist.. thanks to you
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Incredible
@@TheKiwiGrower indeed
Yes we hang in front of house to bring positive energy..ashgourd
In China they throw you into the lake and hope you don’t drown. If it looks like you’re about to though, they’ll come down and pull you up at the last second, then throw you back in again. I think some people died via this method, but it’s effective.
From food and water bottles to clothes and furniture we're so dependant on plants that it would be impossible to imagine life without them, Nice video 👍🏼 .
Definitely! Thanks Benny :)
Quick answer is China
Well, without plants we would all be dead 🌚
@@RealityOfficially what kind of stupid answer is that?
@@RealityOfficially what?
9:17 that bop sound!
The fruits/vegetables from the Gourd family is very useful. In India, it has a wide range of uses from making musical instruments to body sponges from some of those varieties.👍
Same in South Africa 🇿🇦
একতারা বানাই এখানে
Yes it is called lau in Bengali and is used to make curries and even instruments like ektara . Jhinga another kind of gourd is used to make body sponge
This is a traditional plant from our culture since ancient times in Eastern Africa while growing up our fence was literally made of many of these plants and even other types that grow the even more bigger ones, today there are just on one side because the rest was cut down for some constructions... and in our culture the small ones are used to store wine and the bigger ones used to skim milk in order to make butter....
What country are you from?
do you not know how to make a pot
Ethiopia?
@@ernestkhalimov1007 no but Rwanda... that is where those plants originates in the mountains ⛰ same goes to Burundi and some part of Uganda and DRC... also known as the great lakes region
@@razorreaper8440 how long do they last as a wine container and how do you clean them?
I'm planning to grow some next year to try making my own and I like making wine :)
7:46 Seal innards with melted beeswax
8:24 Polish with mixture of one parts beeswax to 4 parts fractionated (prevents oil rancidity?) coconut oil (Or mineral oil). Leave for a while and then buff it up.
In southern Brazil, since the indigenous times we still cultivate the tradition of using the gourd as a container called "cuia" in which we prepare a drink called "chimarrão". The same gourd is used in northeast Brazil to pruduce an musical instrument called "berimbau" that is used on a fight style called "capoeira" (the fighting style used by Elizeu Capoeira and Marcos Aurelio). Cheers from Brazil!
Really took me back. My grandfather use to make those water bottles, to close it he would use a corncob. They are great and keep the water very cool.
Interesting to use a corn cob - cool natural way to do it! Thanks
9:17 is so ASMR worthy, the cork pop and the water moving in the bottle, satisfying and calming, that was so asmr awesome, and it was all from the gourd, that's crazy.
I thought he edited sound effects in
This worldwide plant in the video is called 葫芦 HuLu in China and has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years. Popular streaming platforms also picked up the name. I especially recommend you to get some Chinese hulu seeds, its fruit has a very good taste and shape.
I’m growing bottle gourd for the 1st time in zone 6B. So far, I have 7 good sized ones. I can’t wait to make actual water bottles and bird houses. Thank you for this video. Very informative!
Here in south Brazil (and also at Uruguai) we use these in large scale to drink a sort of tea called Chimarrão.
There's a new moviment trying to introduce a industrial manifactured substitutes, but in general everybody here prefers to do it as we've always done, with a natural "cuia" made out of "porongo".
In someparts of Chile, they are used to drink mate
bah tche
Porongos are used to drink mate in Paraguay and the north east of Argentina
That “scoop” would make an awesome soup bowl with a handle! Overall this video was very cool and a really interesting demonstration of how past civilizations would have made use of these gourds.
You'd have to use another sealant other than bees wax tho, unless you want to only use it for gazpacho and other cold soups, also a spoon would easily scape the beeswax off.
Good soup
Soup isn't environmentally sustainable man
The Soup scoop gourd would be awesome to use in a soup kitchen to let the people in need to see that gourd give them a big scoop of food, nice way to measure a large scoop.
I've been growing these things for a few years and my basement is now full of the dried husks and many, craft projects. Bottles, birdhouses, drums, shakers, stringed instruments... Super cool!
Ah, the gourds! One of the most *useful* plants ever! Great to see how it is planted and converted into tools like that!
Thanks so much for the water bottle tutorial! Last summer I grew (what I thought were Apple gourds) very large gourds. I must have 15 gourds which are currently drying in my house. I originally was planning to make bird houses out of them, but after watching your video, will make a couple of bowls and a water bottle or two, as well. I appreciate you - be well! 😊
Cool, hope it goes well!
Hello, Nancy I know it seems like a big ask but if you have any would there be anyway I could buy them from you? If I could, what would be the price? If you don't have any or don't want to give me one, do you still have the seeds or know where I could get the seeds.
@@d1gitalbandit158 google it dude wtf do you live in 1960 s' ?????
@@dzmanhooo8602 Don’t involve yourself with affairs that do not concern you, the user above simply asked a question.
@@nerokyou you just involved yourself with an affair that does not concern you... Doesn't that make you a hypocrite ?
It has been a part of our lives the Zomi. We call it the tribal refrigerator. It's still widely used in the villages to store water and keep it cool especially when going to the farm.
turned out amazing! took a agriculture class waaaay back in middle school but watching this channel makes me want to start a small vegetable garden in my backyard
This is amazing, when I first watched this video I got so excited and told my partner I'm going to grow my own water bottle, they didn't even question it
I think your other ideas like the bird feeder and plant holder are so cool I'm going to try this
we always use them as lanterns. cut the bottom drill a hole on top and put a light bulb in it. If you can drill several shapes on it like stars etc. this would be very nice :)
there's also a special type of gourd, extremely elongated, which was used to pull rakija out of the barrels without needing a faucet. worked like pulling gas out of the gas tank. once you thought you filled it, you plugged the mouth end with the thumb and now had a full gourd of rakija to pour into a bottle, without needing a funnel too.
I’ve always done things like that with a straw and drinks. Apply pressure to top, can lift the straw and no drink comes out. Science!
7:02 I swear to god that I felt something got in my eye
In Colombia, we use the fruit of a plant called Totumo, also called Jícaro (Crescentia cujete).
The fruit of this plant has an external hard skin (Cortex) and a internal soft. Basically, we clear the intern zone of the fruit to use the cortex to store many stuffs, like milk, water, to do cheese. This plant has so many variants with many forms, in some cases the totumos are used to do spoons, mugs and cups.
I'm sorry if the idea isn't clear, I'm only learning the language.
The idea was super clear. That was some really good English! It's cool to hear what the plants called in other areas
You you please teach us the whole process from planting the seeds until making mugs?
@@micahsouza8016 thank you for your words, mate!
@ricardo6310 Ud. escribe muy bien en ingles. Al empezar el espanol yo estudiaba en la escuela pero todavia hay muchas palabras y expresiones nuevas que encuentro. Frecuentemente son de origen indigena. Por ejemplo, me parece que la palabra Totumo es una palabra indigena de los indios de su pais.
Una correccion es que tenemos en ingles dos verbos distintos para hacer. To do es hacer una accion y to make es hacer o fabricar un objeto. Asi es mejor decir "to make spoons, mugs and cups," y "to do my homework." No es necesario preocuparse por esto porque con la practica se adapata.
Otro error es que usamos "an" cuando la siguiente palabra empieza con una vocal. Escribio correctamente "an external hard skin" pero necesita escribir "an internal soft." Sin embargo no es un error que afecta el sentido.
Me puede hacer el favor de corregirme a mi tambien porque sin usar diariamente el espanol resulta que hago muchos errores todavia. @ricardo6310
@ricardo6310 No se preocupe. Yo he estudiado el espanol por muchos anos y sigo intentando mejorar. Poco a poco. Ud. se expresa bien y su mensaje es excelente. He oido mencionar la palabra Jícaro pero no Totumo. En muchos lugares usan palabras indigenas que se varian porque hay muchos grupos distintos.
Here in Bangladesh 🇧🇩my grandma used to make jar from dried gourd to store grains, lentils,rice etc. I never saw the making process (because hardly I go to granny's house) thanks for sharing this video
এর বাংলা নাম কি?
It makes a surprisingly satisfying set of sounds when you open it and take a drink. I had no idea these existed until seeing this video, and now I want to grow some!
In Wikipedia it shows how some are actually used in percussion instruments and to help sound resonate sound in other instruments too such as the guitar and the flute.
My grandfather used to sell this back when we had Fruits and Vegetable shop.
He passed away few years ago and the shop is closed since then but looking at it still brings back memories 😃
As someone who loves repurposing items and collecting plants, I found joy watching how you turned a bottle gourd into a water bottle. I hope you can share more videos turning plants into helpful items around the house! Keep up the great work 👍
Next you could repurpose the water bottle into a bird feeder!
This is insanely cool
Omg I'm star struck! You are one of my favorite youtubers! Love your podcast too :)
2 of my favs youtubers randomly talking to each other
Hah, I thought for a long time that Gourds were rough pottery. Didn't expect them to be organic. I wonder how much one of those can last before rotting away or crumbling. Cool
Unbelievable but true i thought the same
@@basilabedallah5797 same.
Very long because my dads gourd hasn’t even crumbled or rotten yet even after years having it
@@Sir_4_5_SHOTS that's awesome!
It can last as long as you don't break or Crack it..... we have some that are over 90 years old ...
I almost forgot these things existed! It is so cool to see someone use them as bowls and water bottles like that
The scoop gourd you showed us @ 9:54, we usually use them for drinking home made beer in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼. That’s one way of using it lol 🤭
I've grown and built many things from dried gourds. Never seen someone coat the inside in wax, pretty cool idea.
Gourds like the one you used for the scoop were used as dippers to drink from natural springs. I drank from one at a neighbor's house when I was a child.
That's so cool!
We also used to make utensils out of these in nepal but not anymore.
Happy to see such creative ideas minimizing carbon footprint!
I was just reading about these in Jared diamond’s guns gems and steel and thought I’d look it up, I appreciate all the effort you put into this, and the historical context you put it in to.
This kind of bottles have been used in India over thousands of years. We call it kamandal and it is mostly used by sants
The way the water sloshes around in the gourd sounds very refreshing 😊
So good on a hot Summers day
It can also be used as a lifeguard when swimming in a lake/pond. I remember using it once.
Lifegourd
@@marcustumilba4761 lol😂
We still use them in villages in Zimbabwe, Africa. And I must say drinking natural fresh spring water from one is awesome. The water seems to taste different
We still have the one my great grandpa used when he went to work in the mountains in Mexico. Very cool to see how it’s grown starting from seed
That's really cool!
I DM u on IG mentioning this bottle gourd is shown on alot of old chinese movies. but now i got to know how they are made waterproof and how its so shiny! thank u Kalem ! this is so cool !
Glad you liked it man! :)
Calabash + beeswax, if u spawn on etris is pretty easy to craft a canteen
but what if the nomads attack me when i'm grabbing beeswax?
@@winfyy4746 just dont attack nomads?
This summer I kept waiting for my gourd plant to pollinate. When it didn't show sign of fruiting I pulled it to make room for other vining plants. Sad! It was a good-looking plant. For the sake of gourds I'll grow it again next year. Thank you for sharing. Your gourds are beautiful.
This gourds can be made in an utensil to extract a liquid and the pour it in glasses, in my country usually used for wine. For that you need a gourd that has one of the ends elongated and the other close to a sphere. You cut the end of the elongated part and drill a hole that can be blocked with a finger on the other end. You insert the gourd in the liquid with the second hole left open then block the hole with the finger and yey, you can lift the liquid and then pour it by partially unblocking the second hole when on top of a glass.
dont want your fingers in my drink thanks
@@MM-rr1kp The finger acts as a valve, it is not in contact with the liquid, it regulates how much air will enter in the contraption and will then allow the liquid to flow.
I find lots of those right outside etris, they always grow in the bush near that bridge. Calabashes always come in clutch when you're exploring islands as they fill up your food and water bars pretty well.
lol deepwoken
This guy valid
Again, I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into these videos!
Thanks a lot, so glad it's appreciated :)
very thought provoking stuff! can't wait to grow a huge one to carry around on my back and fill with chakra infused sand to pass the next chunin exams
For that last big one, you can drill a 1/2 inch hole and screw a tap to it and use it as a water can. The stored water is naturally good and will be soothing too. 👍
By the way, appreciate your awesome efforts towards the nature. The video was pretty informative and had lots of take away to current and next generations too. God bless you! 🙏🙏🙏👌👏
This looks so cool! I've always liked and wondered how they were made when I was a kid, seeing them from animated movies and films. Glad RUclips recommended this to me. Really reminds me of a peanut 🥜. What pop up on my head for that gourd was a pitcher, hammer, a foot massager (where you roll it, but I think it would be kinda silly with this gourd), and a vase.
Thanks for this video!
Always thought the Calabash was this perfect shape. I think farmers must have some kind of mold to form it desirably. Great video and interest too. Worth researching further
Here's an idea for that large gourd. TWO items out of the one gourd! Item 1: cut the gourd about in the middle of the neck between the bulbs and make the top part into a type of funnel by cutting off about half of the top bulb. Item 2: cut the bottom bulb about in half for another, larger bowl, and bonus, use the top half of the bottom bulb into another funnel!
Multiuse, that's a cool idea, thanks!
Calabash + Beeswax.
My grandfather had a few of these and I always thought they were so cool. He told me that that’s exactly how they cleaned them inside, with the rocks and they used them to bring water when they were going to work in the field
Have just caught the bottle gourd bug. Lots online for us obsessives, and this video is fabulous - sparkling clear photography too thank you.
Prices of home grown gourds here in the UK are crazy - I had to pay £90 for 3, two 15" ones and a 10" one, inc. shipping, which actually was under £6.
The 10 incher is going to be my water bottle, but the two very large ones will need some thought. I can fully understand why people become so engrossed in gourd growing and decorating - there is some unknown primeval fascination, deeply rooted in our being. Am delighted to have become a 'gourdsman'.
calabash lean DEEP
Omg this is incredible. First time I'm seeing anything like this. Nature really does provide everything for us. I love all the extra things you made
In South Africa 🇿🇦 this is called a Calabash still used in rural areas, the pulp is use in traditional medicines
Thank God for nature! He is the true provider. ♥️
The deep calls
2L is like the perfect size. That's a whole day's worth of drinking water so long as it's not too hot out. And I like that the gourd makes cartoonish bottle noises when filled with water.
We call that “endeku “ in my language and it’s used to take alcohol. Locally brewed beer from banana and yeast. Among the cattle keepers in my country, it’s used to drink cold milk 🥛 😊
the deepwoken community flocking to see a calabash in real life
wow that's actually insanely cool! I really love all the uses you found for them too, that's an amazing plant! It must be so heavy to hold that much water, but i think it would be really cool for hiking :D
Cheers mate, it's surprisingly not too heavy and awkward even with it full of water. Yea maybe I should take it on a hike. I'd look like a total bushman then haha :)
Yeah... I'm African, Nigerian, we have it and its actually quite light while also still strong.
@@obal7987 From the photos I've seen I believe Nigeria must be the world leader in gourd cultivation, where can I get some Nigerian seeds?
The sound the bottle made when you drank from it in the end was quite satisfying as well.
I can't believe they made deepwoken in real life! Awesome job dude
They turned Deepwoken Calabash into a real fruit! Whoah
FR!! its almost like consistent uploads
5:35, this bird just shits in frot of the camera
Makes an amazing bottle from nature..
Fills it up using tap water with fluoride..
i love how this man lives.
i feel like loving this kind of living making me more look old. Im 20 btw.
Nice bro. I’ve enjoyed this type of living since I was a teen and I felt the same way then too.
But people will realise overtime that you were onto something all along :)
I'm definitely trying this! Thanks
😂😂😂 A BO'OH'O'WA'ER
@@City1Tiger it's freaking Pogba man no way that's a copied comment
He wants a natural Bo oh o wa er
I love the bowl, it seems like a very practical utility. Could see myself serving nuts, popcorn, or chips on it. Maybe a bowl of cereal! Thanks for sharing
Cheers Mark, yea I've been eating chips in it haha. Hadn't thought of popcorn - I should serve my homegrown popcorn in it - cheers!
People use this in Brazil for a million uses. You can cut the middle and use as a bowl. It you cut it lengthwise and drill holes in the more narrow part it can be used to wash rice.
This man is doing awesome things keep it up
Would this also work for hot drinks or would the heat dissolve the wax? Either way, this is an amazing video, definitely trying this out!! Not only are you cultivating an awesome plant, but also a piece of age-old human culture, thats really really cool.
I would say hot water might dissolve it a little or at least soften it, so probably more suitable for regular drinks. Thanks for the comment, so cool to try something out that's been done for millennia!
If he melted wax in hot water... what do you think would do hot tea to the wax?
No, no! Anything like that, that has a beeswax coating inside it is for cold liquid only!
This is something that is sometimes asked with leather water bottles, which have the same coating inside, as well as drinking horns, which have the same.
Why you would want to put so much hot liquid inside something like that though is bizarre. It'd get cold!
Nah...cold liquids only with these!
Then is it bad if the bottle is underneath the sun in summer?
@@RunBoy - well yeah, lol! Once it's been treated with beeswax, I wouldn't go leaving t out in the sun (when empty of liquid) or stored in a hot car or anything. You gotta look after it a bit! It's now a beautiful treasure!
calabash moment
Love your videos so much i love gardening and I love plants thank you for such amazing videos ❤🎉
This videos never fail to amaze me. Ever since I found your channel I've been wanting to grow something but I'm very limited on space unfortunately due to being in a flat with no balcony and not alot of decent sunlight.
I need to do some research because you are really making me want to grow stuff.
Thanks a lot, and awesome to hear you want to grow some stuff. I'm thinking of making a video that might help people who don't really have a growing space, so will look into that at some stage :). Maybe you could look into microgreens :). Lots of fun to grow, can grow them indoors in a sunny window, and you can get a decent harvest from them too
Use the scoop for your chook food. 😁 That big one you could turn into a strawberry planter with a few strategically placed holes. Another great start-to-finish vid! 👍👍 Keep 'em comin'. (Oh, and, happy new year. 😀)
Cheers for all the ideas John! Glad you enjoyed it, and happy new year too :)
such a fantastic idea, the organic look is just amazing to be honest i wonder how they'll turnout if you paint them with some monotone colors close to the original one
Gardening and growing stuff is the most boring thing for me. Somehow, this man got me to watch the whole video with interest and awe. Awesome work dude! That bottle looks so cool! I want one now!
@surajshergill7777 As a child I was alone a lot and was lucky to live in an area that was not yet totally spoiled by modern agricultural methods. I was able to observe a lot of forms of wild life and seeing plants grow was amazing to me. That a tiny seed could become a big plant with beautiful flowers and fruit in only a few months is still a great mystery and like a miracle to me.
calabash
Yo is this calabash GOTTA CEAFT IT QUICK
Wow.... Now that is real efficiency
Really appreciate your videos, esp as they are made after taking clips of more than a year. Im from Pakistan and bottle guards here are usually eaten in a curry. There is also another variety here, a longer one that can grow up to 60-70cm long. I reckon we can make pipes out of them :D
Thanks!
Nice, those long varieties look really cool!