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Today we are going to harvest the last few bottle gourd I have left in the plant
At the same time I am going to continue to prune bottle gourd plant
to make it continue to grow and continue to fruit
In the last few weeks we have picked five young gourds
There are still four left
they have grown into full-size
Look how big it is
This is the normal size of a matured round bottle gourd
it's not very old you still can eat it
you can tell by pushing your fingernail
through the skin if you still can push
your finger nail through it's still edible
I will show you in next video
when i open it and try to preserve it
You have to harvest your bottle gourd in time
When it gets old like this you still can eat it
After removing the skin and seeds inside,
the flesh is still tender and juicy
if you keep it too long on the plant
it will get too old
even the flesh will grow that hardness
now let's prune the plant
so we're going to do similar thing we did last time
We have to remove the vines that finished fruiting
and also the vines that had fruits but the fruits didn't grow big enough
now it's empty
the vine that does not have any female flowers
and the vines too weak to fruit
you may think that you're moving too many vines
but don't worry about it.
after you remove these unnecessary vines
the plant will grow back more vines and will continue to fruit
here is an example of how to prune the vines
after I remove the fruit and the vine to come with the fruit
I keep a leaf right here, you can see here
It already have a sprout growing
and this sprout i'm going to keep it together with a leaf
it will grow into another vine
and this new vine will be very likely a fruiting vine
so this is another sample
I kept a leaf here
You can see here there is a sprout growing
also grow into a new vine
this is another example
this is the main vine and this is the side vine
i remove the rest of the vine but I kept one leaf
there's a sprout here growing this area
is right in the middle of the trailers
and get the best sun and very good space
so i keep a leaf and a sprout here and
we also need to remove any yellow leaves
and the leaves have bugs or disease problem
you can tell by the color
sometime is like startes to turn yellow
Sometime you can see that there is bugs on it
Usually the older the leaves the more likely will get bugd and disease problems
so you should remove it
the leaves that you should remove usually at the bottom of this area
and it's not necessary to keep it
because this area is not fruiting area
you don't need to keep thisese leaves
if you remove the leaves it will help the ventilation
Keep your garden neat
there are some aphid problem for this plant
so you have to remove them if you do not
then the aphid will grow more and more
because the plant growing so many fruits
at the same time there's some fruits that
after they grow into a pingpong size
they didn't grow bigger it just withers
It is normal if you see some of the gourds did not make it
Now it looks much better. I do have some branches that growing
already have female flowers
the same thing we need to prune it
so the female flower will grow bigger
and continue to fruit
Keep two female flowers and two extra leaves and remove the tip
this area is a very good fruiting area
because it has the best sunlight and have many big and young leaves growing
The bottom part of the trellis, this is not fruiting area,
So I am not keeping any sprout or any side vines in this area
and I remove most of the leaves
it is very important to keep your plant neat
without any unnecessary leaves and branches
one week later bottle gourd grows back
more new vines with more female flowers
There are also more fruits growing
you should also do some pruning work now
please refer to my video how to prune fruiting bottler bottle
Bottle gourd can be pruned, grow back fruit, get harvested and prune again
this cycle can be repeated for multiple times
depending on growing season your local climate and the plant condition
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