Round Bottle Gourds and White birdeye chilli native varieties

I had cucumber native variety seeds. I have posted in seed swap facebook groups that cucumber seeds available for swap. A grower from Telangana by name H S Dikshit has responded for the post. He had Desi white chilli seeds and bottle gourd seeds. We summoned for seed swap. Sent 100 + extra as per germination rate to his address by registered post. He too, sent sent me seeds of white bird eye chilli and round bottle gourd seeds by post. we have exchanged the seeds.

About the seeds from Grower

Desi White chilli seeds:
                The fruits will be White when fruiting stage. After ripening it will turn to red as per the Grower. The Grower said that these desi chilli plants will lasts three years. Hence, eager to watch them grow. Grower has sent the pic of this chilli plant.

Native Round bottle gourd seeds
                     I received the Round bottle gourd seeds from the same Grower. I havent seen the round bottle gourds before. Eager to see the fruits from them.

Sown both of them in the edges.

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stages of native cucumber and how to make a cucumber juice

Here is the stages of native cucumber. A Video at the end of the post to learn how to make the Cucumber Juice. You should not add the sugar for this juice. If we had, we will lose the medicinal properties of the Cucumber. Hence, here they add native Jaggery  for the juice.

                                             FIRST STAGE

                                           SECOND STAGE

 

THIRD STAGE

                                                   CROSS SECTIONAL VIEW OF THIRD STAGE

                                                         FOURTH STAGE

                                                      FIFTH STAGE

                                             TURNS WHITE BEFORE YELLOW

                                              LAST STAGE - READY FOR JUICE

     
HERE IS VIDEO ON HOW TO MAKE A CUCUMBER JUICE
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Saving Bottle Gourd Seeds

How to save Bottle Gourd Seeds ?

     * Select one healthy Bottle gourd in the Garden.
     * Don't pluck that Gourd until it dries.

                                 Bottle Gourd Dried
         * We need to cut the Gourd when it attains the stage as shown in the above image.
         * It may take a Month or  45 days to attain this stage.
         * It is recommended to cover paper or cloth to avoid moisture from humidity.
         * As I am also new as you all, I didn't covered anything. Thus, this gourd has so many white ashes around.
         * After Breaking this gourd I found so many Seeds as you can see in the below image.

                    Seeds from Bottle Gourd

Note: Excuse for Blur Images. Need some time to change Camera.

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Experience on Growing Pumpkin and Bottle gourd in farm

Growing Pumpkins and Bottle gourd :
                 Growing Pumpkins is not easy nor difficult. Mainly patience is needed. It took me Three and half to get my first Pumpkin.

                * There were Ridges with small canals at the ends of the farm.
                * Noticed it to grow some veggies which i would market in the Local Farmer Markets nearby.
                * Searched online to know what type of veggies to grow on the ridges mainly concentrated on easy to grow and easy maintenance type.
                * Grandmother suggested Pumpkin and she gave seeds also.
                * I thought to grow Bottle gourd (Long edible) with Pumpkin as Bottle Gourd had a good demand in the Local Farmer Markets.
                * Hence, I sown Bottle gourd seeds and Pumpkin seeds in the same Row. I didn't tilled up the land. I lined up the drip line for irrigation and sown both seeds.

                                                        Bottle gourd and Pumpkin
                   * After 9 days both sprouted as shown in the figure above.
                   * I applied little cow dung near by the plants.
                   * The Plant Growth was good.
                   * But after 45 days I noticed grey ash spots which was powdery on the leaves of the Bottle gourd.
                   * I grinded Vitex leaves to make a paste. After that I diluted it with water and left for 2 days in a shady place.
                   * I filtered the solution and sprayed with electric sprayer.
                   * After one week it grey spots on the bottle gourd completely went.

                                                            Bottle Gourd and pumpkin

                                                          Bottle Gourd and Pumpkin
                  * In the above figure you can see both Bottle gourd and Pumpkin growing well.
                  * As I didn't tilled by land weeds came up.
                  * Day by day, the vines of both Bottle gourd and Pumpkin suppressed the weeds. As the sunlight doesn't go to the land the weeds have been suppressed.
                  * Finally, Bottle gourd plants first started to yield. My first Harvest was after 52 days from Planting.
                  * Nearly 300 kgs from 25 Bottle gourd Plants I sold to Local farmer Markets. when the Bottle gourd Plants crossed 150 days I stopped selling to Local farmer Markets. As the Fruits were not uniform. Offered those  Bottle gourds to neighbors and farmers nearby.
                  

                                                      First Harvest of Bottle Gourd
                    
                      * The First Harvest of Bottle gourd, I sold for Rs . 60. Four Bottle gourds were rejected. Reasons : Long in size, Crossed Maturity, white in color, scratches while transporting.
                     
                      * I waited Three and Half months to get my first Pumpkin.

                                                                      Pumpkin

                                                        Pumpkin Female Flower
              
                    * Bees will pollinate pollen from male flower to female flower. In some cases we, manually need to pollinate the pollen.

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