Well, it looks like shifting things about in the big aquarium greenhouse made a different.
The very first canteen gourd sprouted, yesterday evening!
I really hope these succeed. It takes such a very long time to dry out gourds like this, before they can be used to make things. Our first year trying to grow gourds, they got decimated by frost after transplanting. Last year, we had the drought and the heat waves, and they just didn’t get a chance to mature. Hopefully, we will have a good growing year this summer, and starting these so early indoors will give them the time they need to fully mature. Then they’ll need probably at least a year in a cool, dry place to fully dry out.
We shall see!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
This post made me go look in one of the still not yet packed cabinets and I found it, a Coyote Gourd. It is probably 50 years old and now very dry! 🙂
They were seemingly everywhere where I grew up. When I was 8 or 9 years old, I would pick the gourds and after they dried, I’d hang them from my bicycle handle bars. They made wonderful noise makers!
https://tohonochul.org/blog-post/coyote-gourd-handsome-groundcover/
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Oh, wow!! I’ve never heard of these before – or of any gourd growing from tubers! They sound so fun. 😁
Does yours still rattle after all those years?
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Yes. It still rattles.
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Yes.
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