Bottle Gourd Seeds (Lagenaria siceraria) – 350+ Premium Seeds for Planting

Bring an abundant harvest of one of the world's oldest cultivated plants to your garden with our premium selection of 350+ Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) seeds. Also widely known as Calabash, Opo Squash, or Long Melon, this vigorous climbing vine is highly celebrated across global cuisines. When harvested young, the gourds offer a tender, mild, and refreshing white flesh that beautifully absorbs flavors in stir-fries, stews, and traditional curries. If left to fully mature on the vine, the outer skin dries into a rock-hard, woody shell, making it perfect for unique crafts, birdhouses, musical instruments, and natural water vessels.

Our select package contains 350+ high-viability seeds, thoroughly cleaned and hand-picked to ensure robust growth and heavy yields. Bottle Gourd vines are exceptionally fast-growing and productive, producing striking, fragrant white night-blooming flowers before setting their iconic, elegant bottle-shaped fruits. Whether you are aiming to grow a steady supply of nutritious summer vegetables or looking for the ultimate DIY crafting material, these seeds deliver exceptional performance.

You will receive: ✔️ 350+ Premium-quality Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) seeds ✔️ Hand-selected and freshly harvested for high germination and survival rates ✔️ Packaged in professional, moisture-controlled botanical sachets to maintain long-term freshness ✔️ Quick-start direct sowing and trellis training tips included

🌿 Cultivation & Care Information

• Botanical Name: Lagenaria siceraria

• Common Name: Bottle Gourd / Calabash Gourd / Opo Squash / Long Melon

• Plant Type: Annual warm-season climbing vining vegetable

• Sun Requirements: Full sun (Essential: Demands at least 6–8 hours of direct, intense sunlight daily to promote strong vine growth and heavy fruit setting).

• Soil / Medium: Thrives in rich, fertile, well-draining sandy loam or loamy soils packed with organic matter. A soil pH between 6.0 and 6.7 is ideal.

• Watering: Requires consistent, deep watering at the base of the plant. Keep the soil evenly moist, especially during flowering and fruit development, but avoid waterlogged conditions.

• Growth Habit: Extremely vigorous, aggressive trailing or climbing vine. While it can trail along the ground, it performs best and produces perfectly straight, clean gourds when trained vertically on a strong, heavy-duty trellis, arbor, or fence support.

• Temperature: Warm-season crop. Sow seeds directly outdoors only after all danger of frost has passed and soil temperatures have reached at least 70°F (21°C).

💡 Pro Growing Tip

Bottle Gourd seeds have a thick, sturdy outer coat that can benefit from a little assistance to break dormancy. To accelerate and maximize germination success across your batch, gently clip or file the very outer edges of the seed coat (without damaging the internal embryo) and soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours prior to planting. Sow them 1 inch deep in a warm, sunny location. If your vine is growing aggressively but not setting fruit, gently pinch off the main growing tip when the vine reaches 6–8 feet; this encourages the growth of lateral branches, which produce a much higher concentration of female, fruit-bearing flowers!