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Karns City PA

Hey everyone! Was just wondering if anyone has ever grown or seen a abnormally large ornamental gourd? My 4 year old daughter loves spending time in the patch with me and she grows gourds, I noticed the other day that she has one of the yellow top green bottom (for lack of a better term) gourd on her plant that is about as big around as a 2 liter bottle :) didn't know if this was common or not iv never seen one this large, just figured I would ask she is very proud of it :)

8/31/2013 12:03:19 PM

Ely Mn

yes i have seen these last year at my weigh off
and yes they are way cool looking!

8/31/2013 12:39:22 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Would like to see it myself sounds intresting.big fan of orntamental gourds

8/31/2013 12:41:30 PM

Karns City PA

i will take some pictures today and post them :)

8/31/2013 1:04:32 PM

Mercersburg, PA

i saved some seeds from my dad's winged gourds last year assuming there would be some crossing into the genetics. my dad and i both probably have at least 40 plants each of these and they are probably 20% big ones like you are describing--i am guessing that many of them will be over 5 pounds. the rest of them are beautiful winged gourds. i will post pics at harvest time. by the way, most of the big ones are green warted or green and yellow. maybe crossed with pepo jack o lanterns?

9/3/2013 9:38:13 AM