Samadhyala Luffa Gourd / Gilki
Our favorite plant to grow each year! This is a highly productive variety of the smooth luffa gourd, or Gilki. The fruits are edible when young, resembling a zucchini in flavor. The texture is light and airy, and absorbs spices and sauces well. However, we love to grow this plant for the dried sponges it produces if left on the vine to dry!
Plants can send out multiple shoots up to 10 feet long, so make sure to prodive a trellis, fence or space on the ground to grow. Plants like full sun and ample water. In warm regions, the luffahs will begin to dry on the vine 3 months after planting. In our region, we have warm days and cold nights, even in the Summer, so our luffahs were beginning to dry on the vine right as our frost hit (end of October). So we harvested all the luffas and stored them on a metal rack in our greenhouse and they dried up perfectly!
Our seeds are originally from the Samadhyala Village near Surat, India. They have been cultivated there for over 6 generations before being gifted to us to steward in Petaluma, CA.
Luffa aegyptiaca
10 seeds per packet.
Our favorite plant to grow each year! This is a highly productive variety of the smooth luffa gourd, or Gilki. The fruits are edible when young, resembling a zucchini in flavor. The texture is light and airy, and absorbs spices and sauces well. However, we love to grow this plant for the dried sponges it produces if left on the vine to dry!
Plants can send out multiple shoots up to 10 feet long, so make sure to prodive a trellis, fence or space on the ground to grow. Plants like full sun and ample water. In warm regions, the luffahs will begin to dry on the vine 3 months after planting. In our region, we have warm days and cold nights, even in the Summer, so our luffahs were beginning to dry on the vine right as our frost hit (end of October). So we harvested all the luffas and stored them on a metal rack in our greenhouse and they dried up perfectly!
Our seeds are originally from the Samadhyala Village near Surat, India. They have been cultivated there for over 6 generations before being gifted to us to steward in Petaluma, CA.
Luffa aegyptiaca
10 seeds per packet.
Our favorite plant to grow each year! This is a highly productive variety of the smooth luffa gourd, or Gilki. The fruits are edible when young, resembling a zucchini in flavor. The texture is light and airy, and absorbs spices and sauces well. However, we love to grow this plant for the dried sponges it produces if left on the vine to dry!
Plants can send out multiple shoots up to 10 feet long, so make sure to prodive a trellis, fence or space on the ground to grow. Plants like full sun and ample water. In warm regions, the luffahs will begin to dry on the vine 3 months after planting. In our region, we have warm days and cold nights, even in the Summer, so our luffahs were beginning to dry on the vine right as our frost hit (end of October). So we harvested all the luffas and stored them on a metal rack in our greenhouse and they dried up perfectly!
Our seeds are originally from the Samadhyala Village near Surat, India. They have been cultivated there for over 6 generations before being gifted to us to steward in Petaluma, CA.
Luffa aegyptiaca
10 seeds per packet.
