I Spent A Year Growing A Natural Water Bottle

I Spent A Year Growing A Natural Water Bottle - Full Tutorial

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Join me as I spend a year growing and making a natural water bottle out of a bottle gourd that I grew from seed. These are also known as Calabash, birdhouse gourd and white flowered gourd.
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Bottle gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) can be eaten as a vegetable, much like zucchini / corgette, or left on the plant to mature and dry over several months into a hard, hollow, wooden-like shell. These are one of the worlds first known cultivated plants and have been used for thousands of years for many things, including utensils, containers, bottles, helmets, fishnet floats, and musical instruments. Many people like to make them into birdhouses too. The possibilities are endless and it just takes a bit of creativity to make your own plastic-free items and utensils which are fully biodegradable and fun to make.
Today we'll cover the growing requirements of bottle gourds, including seed sowing, soil / sun requirements, pollination, harvesting, plus a how to guide to make your own water bottle from a gourd. This includes cleaning, sanding, cutting and sealing the inside and outside, plus making a rope handle for your bottle. I'll also be making a bird feeder, a hanging cactus pot, a bowl and a scoop.
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0:00 Intro
0:29 Growing the bottle gourds
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@TheKiwiGrower 5 ай бұрын

Hey friends! I decided to make a glowing lamp from one of the gourds too! It was a pretty fun process - you can see the video here where I show you how I did it! :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9aUqJVkxKiwfqc.html

@dumahm9043 4 ай бұрын

Hi, can we use vegan wax instead of beeswax? to coat the inside of the water bottle? 🙈

@ImNotJoshPotter 2 ай бұрын

@@dumahm9043 Nope, wont work.

@dumahm9043 2 ай бұрын

@@ImNotJoshPotter I see 😕 😭😭😭😭 Whyyyyyy not ? 😭😭😭😭 It's not fair 😾😾😾😾😾

@ImNotJoshPotter 2 ай бұрын

@@dumahm9043 Im messing with you. If it dries into a seal Im sure its fine, but really I dont know. Just grow your gourds and try it out. If one wax doesnt cut it compost that bad boy and grab another gourd from the pile. Have fun :-)

@ganeshradharapu9014 2 күн бұрын

I haved this in my home🙆🙆

@TCBE 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe he didn’t drink for a whole year just to show off his water bottle gourd!! His dedication to his fans makes me so ecstatic that people like him are so sweet for millions of people they don’t even know!! 🥰🥰🥰

@ibra673 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@johnlloyd2841 2 жыл бұрын

Did you just say "he didn't drink for a whole year"? That's amazing to be ALIVE after a year WITHOUT DRINKING.

@TCBE 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlloyd2841 IKR!!

@eacali.17 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlloyd2841 I think he means drinking Alcohol or possible sweet and unhealthy drinks?

@kokopelli7432 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlloyd2841 it’s a joke

@sylviasandy Жыл бұрын

I'm African (Nigerian to be precise) and we use this to drink water and palm wine in a traditional way. Some people use glass to drink theirs but I prefer using this all the time. It keeps me in tune with nature when I use it. Thank you for sharing this. ❤

@Comte_de_Lorenzo Жыл бұрын

Wow are you saying that your country actually shares a custom with mine? Im pretty amazed. If you ever watch chinese movies of archaic theme, youll see that ancient chinese use dried calabash as standard bottles for water tea and spirits. Im just wondering how do they empty the insides lol, and maybe you can tell me how you African Nigerians do it :)

@elsalitrero5334 Жыл бұрын

@@Comte_de_Lorenzo In Peru (a South American country) these calabash have been used for thousands of years as plates or bottles. In some places they are still made for souvenirs or decorations.

@bossfight5736 Жыл бұрын

Please guy above me tell me you're joking

@rolandasgrigaitis708 Жыл бұрын

@@bossfight5736 I'm just asking what do you mean.

@wyattjohnson5181 Жыл бұрын

@@rolandasgrigaitis708 it is easy. They just make a router out of mud and sticks. 😊

@sm71485 Жыл бұрын

As someone who lives in the industrial cities, seeing people make stunning tools and stuff out of freaking plants and grown stuff is so cool.

@graceweiss3813 Жыл бұрын

I live in Kenya and we use them for drinking porridge and fetching water from springs. Amazing work! Sadly, they were more popular with my grandma's generation and now it's just plastic everywhere. I just planted a few in my garden and I can't wait to go crazy with all the possibilities you've shared. Thank you for sharing!!

@Sam-de6qx 2 жыл бұрын

For the last one use some holes to make a patterns then drill out the base enough to accommodate a small bulb or candle and you'll have an awesome looking lamp.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

That would be epic as, thanks for the idea! :)

@maithreyankuppusamy5005 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower you can use it as a floater for swimming.

@1hej0k3r 2 жыл бұрын

Had the same idea, it's a pumpkin after all! So you can use it for Halloween - but every year :D

@rafaeleiras2547 2 жыл бұрын

It s called gourdart 😉

@KillerGirlLucy 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower There's a small museum in Gifu owned by a man who makes beautiful lamps out of gourds! It's called the Hyotan Lamp Museum in Yoro, Gifu :D

@huldradraco 2 жыл бұрын

also, please be aware of the mold and dust inside the gourd while cleaning it out. always smart to use protection to prevent moldy dust entering your lungs while working with these. as someone with permanent lung damage from mold, I'm always reminding people not to take mold lightly. better safe than sorry!

@PrescottSF 2 жыл бұрын

@user-vs9ds3dc2y 2 жыл бұрын

@stevel465 2 жыл бұрын

@pokehano9614 2 жыл бұрын

@zestynathanielbcousin9015 2 жыл бұрын

@mspaduhilao7581 Жыл бұрын

9:17 that bop sound!

@bridgetteo3984 Жыл бұрын

OMG!!! I'm from South Africa and my grandmother used to grow these gourds. Once dried, they were used to store water and ferment milk into a drink called Amasi, which is like a sour milk that can keep for a while. They are also used to make painted ornaments like vases and bowls, and we have several such vases in out house. Super cool video.

@vernonfrance2974 11 ай бұрын

Now you can make some amazing painted objects from them yourself that future generations will admire!

@therobot1080 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at how versatile this plant is, no wonder its one of the first cultivated plants

@freeeggs3811 Жыл бұрын

@championchap wow our ancestors are so smart

@ricochettheprotogen4928 Жыл бұрын

@@freeeggs3811 were,and yes our ancestors are often underestimated in terms of intelligence

@kentran1242 Жыл бұрын

@@ricochettheprotogen4928 It’s Rewind Time

@Gmafia76 Жыл бұрын

@@zackzoom8779 We are animals...

@janefkrbtt Жыл бұрын

@@zackzoom8779 says who?

@de245733 2 жыл бұрын

these are called HuLu in chinese, and its a familiar bottle for us farm kids to see here in Taiwan way back. Our grandfather would bring one of these filled with tea and a warped rice box made out of banana leaves with is steamed together in a bamboo box for lunch, so its actually interesting to see for me that these natural bottles arn’t native to Asia! Btw the seeds are great as a stir frie sides, produce this amazing sweet smell when you fry it in high heat.

@alexandervowles3518 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@quangthuyoan9576 2 жыл бұрын

Drunken fist master intensifies

@tydshiin5783 2 жыл бұрын

My grandparents have a shrine in their home and it has one of those which was cool

@zaberraiyan2570 2 жыл бұрын

-999999 social credits

@alson8403 2 жыл бұрын

@@zaberraiyan2570 please stop, i’m so sick of these social credit memes, people milked it so hard, now it’s just irritating instead of funny.

@YodaWhat Жыл бұрын

Seeds for these plants are often sold as *birdhouse gourds*, and they take a long time to sprout _unless you soak them._ From my first attempt at growing them, in 2021, I only got 2 small gourds because they did not get much light where I had planted them. Germination rate was low from the purchased seeds, which only had 4 to 6 seeds per package. I bought several packages and planted them all. Only 3 of the seeds ever came up and one died. They grow very slowly. After they stopped growing, I cut them off the vines and air dried them for several months, then harvested many seeds, as the video shows, except through a small hole in the side of the large section. Many of the seeds were not fully mature, as became evident later. I made the gourds into houses for small birds and hung them up outside in a semi-protected area away from the house, but the birds have ignored them so far. In early spring 2022, I started my second attempt. I soaked all the seeds for 2 weeks, which resulted in the water looking like brewed black tea. I drained it off and rinsed the seeds, then let them dry slightly. It was obvious that about half were not good seeds, more like paper shells, possibly due to the poor location of the parent plants. Then I planted all the good seeds next to a chain link fence in a very sunny area, and they came up quickly and reliably. Unfortunately, a mole disturbed the young roots and only 4 survived from the 3 dozen seedlings. Now (mid June 2022) those 4 plants are starting to climb the fence, and they are looking good so far. I water them a little every almost every day, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. Occasionally I skip watering for one day. I will try to post updates to this message, later.

@GachaWolf81900 Жыл бұрын

Cool!!

@msb3285 Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️ Good luck

@jo40p3dr0 Жыл бұрын

It's been seven months, how is it going?

@YodaWhat Жыл бұрын

@@jo40p3dr0 They climbed up the fence for a couple of months, then we got a lot of rain, and they all died. I guess they should be planted in a mound or something, so the roots get drainage.

@cressetcreeper2063 Жыл бұрын

@@YodaWhat If you find the right place you can literally just plant a bunch and some will survive without much interference other than of course watering occasionally during dry streaks.

@dylanserra6501 Жыл бұрын

For the last gourd some ideas: - A torch/candle holder - bongos (upside down using the long thin side as the stand to hold the bongos - A warhorn - I don't know if you have a pet hamster or something like that but it could be made into a tube for it to run through - A weird but cool basketball hoop

@danielsmilovits1694 2 жыл бұрын

nobody gonna question how this man grabbed a boiling glass with his bare hand without getting burnt. Absolute unit

@GigDgee 2 жыл бұрын

He also shoved a cactus into a gourd with his bare hand

@demanien7722 Жыл бұрын

I believe its because the skin on his hands hardened over the years duo to the honest work he does with his hands. A friend of mine is working as a cleaner and the amount of presure this job does on his hands is more than i thought. he can hold a hot cup of coffee like its nothing

@Dory._. Жыл бұрын

@@demanien7722 honest work 😌

@AFlyingCoconut Жыл бұрын

Glass doesn't transfer heat well and he touched the top of the glass which was always exposed to the cold air. Also the water wasn't boiling, as the difference in temperature from top to bottom would have caused the glass to shatter.

@jahleelanderson5543 Жыл бұрын

@@AFlyingCoconut12 year old me who got 3rd degree burns from holding a glass candle : what

@davideee7189 2 жыл бұрын

I just watched a man grow a plant i dont care about and make things that arent very exciting either like a water bottle and still being incredibly entertained the whole time, very impressive

@ViciousVinnyD Жыл бұрын

I find it extremely impressive given how huge an issue plastic bottles are right now and this has apparantly just been a thing for thousands of years so why the hell are we still using plastic it tastes so bad like what??

@JeisonJunqueira Жыл бұрын

In southern Brazil, since the indigenous times we still cultivate the tradition of using the gourd as a container called "cuia" in which we prepare a drink called "chimarrão". The same gourd is used in northeast Brazil to pruduce an musical instrument called "berimbau" that is used on a fight style called "capoeira" (the fighting style used by Elizeu Capoeira and Marcos Aurelio). Cheers from Brazil!

@yemuraimukudu9642 Жыл бұрын

The scoop gourd you showed us @ 9:54, we usually use them for drinking home made beer in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼. That’s one way of using it lol 🤭

@healthdios 2 жыл бұрын

These gourds were very popular in rural areas in Mexico long time ago. I remember my grandfather and some older neighbors storing them and carrying them around just exactly the way is described in the water bottle option, with a rope weaved around and a long loop to carry on your shoulder. My mentality was so different back in those days since I thought it was an antiquated way to carry drinking water and never understood why my grandfather just didn't carry a plastic canteen. I'm so glad I ran into this video and my next garden project will be to find me some of those seeds and grow my own drinking gourds. Btw, I think my grandpa called it a "guaje".

@pedrosabino8751 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Northeastern Brazil it was common too in the rural zones. We call it "cabaça(s)"

@KharisPsalm 2 жыл бұрын

In Uganda it’s called “endeku”

@DogMemes86 2 жыл бұрын

@@KharisPsalm in somalia abitan

@atulbhoi234 2 жыл бұрын

These are really femous in rural area of india.

@notxavs3409 2 жыл бұрын

In english its called a gourd

@trashman2626 2 жыл бұрын

Calabash + Beeswax.

@ricciardo017 Жыл бұрын

In Colombia, we use the fruit of a plant called Totumo, also called Jícaro (Crescentia cujete). The fruit of this plant has an external hard skin (Cortex) and a internal soft. Basically, we clear the intern zone of the fruit to use the cortex to store many stuffs, like milk, water, to do cheese. This plant has so many variants with many forms, in some cases the totumos are used to do spoons, mugs and cups. I'm sorry if the idea isn't clear, I'm only learning the language.

@micahsouza8016 Жыл бұрын

The idea was super clear. That was some really good English! It's cool to hear what the plants called in other areas

@mohammedalkhuzairi7812 Жыл бұрын

You you please teach us the whole process from planting the seeds until making mugs?

@ricciardo017 Жыл бұрын

@@micahsouza8016 thank you for your words, mate!

@vernonfrance2974 11 ай бұрын

@ricardo6310 Ud. escribe muy bien en ingles. Al empezar el espanol yo estudiaba en la escuela pero todavia hay muchas palabras y expresiones nuevas que encuentro. Frecuentemente son de origen indigena. Por ejemplo, me parece que la palabra Totumo es una palabra indigena de los indios de su pais. Una correccion es que tenemos en ingles dos verbos distintos para hacer. To do es hacer una accion y to make es hacer o fabricar un objeto. Asi es mejor decir "to make spoons, mugs and cups," y "to do my homework." No es necesario preocuparse por esto porque con la practica se adapata. Otro error es que usamos "an" cuando la siguiente palabra empieza con una vocal. Escribio correctamente "an external hard skin" pero necesita escribir "an internal soft." Sin embargo no es un error que afecta el sentido. Me puede hacer el favor de corregirme a mi tambien porque sin usar diariamente el espanol resulta que hago muchos errores todavia. @ricardo6310

@vernonfrance2974 8 ай бұрын

@ricardo6310 No se preocupe. Yo he estudiado el espanol por muchos anos y sigo intentando mejorar. Poco a poco. Ud. se expresa bien y su mensaje es excelente. He oido mencionar la palabra Jícaro pero no Totumo. En muchos lugares usan palabras indigenas que se varian porque hay muchos grupos distintos.

@faysong 10 ай бұрын

I’m growing bottle gourd for the 1st time in zone 6B. So far, I have 7 good sized ones. I can’t wait to make actual water bottles and bird houses. Thank you for this video. Very informative!

@yousef2648 2 жыл бұрын

7:02 I swear to god that I felt something got in my eye

@nandhini4ever 2 жыл бұрын

Just stumbled upon this video.. it brings back the memories of my childhood in my village in Southern India. The dried whole bottle guard is used as a floatation device like a pool noodle for younger kids to learn swimming. Very effective though.. Also, the bottle is used by people who extract coconut flower sap and the bottle is usually tied around their waist.. thanks to you

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

@TheGeenat 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@eastvern5147 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower indeed

@Sandy-sd5cv 2 жыл бұрын

Yes we hang in front of house to bring positive energy..ashgourd

@KaiserTwo 2 жыл бұрын

In China they throw you into the lake and hope you don’t drown. If it looks like you’re about to though, they’ll come down and pull you up at the last second, then throw you back in again. I think some people died via this method, but it’s effective.

@jamesyang420 Жыл бұрын

Ah, the gourds! One of the most *useful* plants ever! Great to see how it is planted and converted into tools like that!

@Konprise Жыл бұрын

They turned Deepwoken Calabash into a real fruit! Whoah

@originalnoc Жыл бұрын

FR!! its almost like consistent uploads

@Artistic_Psychologist 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the days when me and my little brother use to visit our grandma in the village. She use to grow and harvest these, and even keep the dried ones for us to make water bottles for school.😭 Last year I lost my grandma and it is the most heart breaking thing ever.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss. What a great memory to have

@putoutmyfirewithgasoline1877 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear about your grandma my man.

@cptntwinkletoes 2 жыл бұрын

That's such a sweet story!

@bobross547 2 жыл бұрын

Me too buddy I lost mine in November Love from Canada

@SuchiththaW 2 жыл бұрын

This is quite possiby one of the coolest homestead/home-gardening videos i've ever seen. An idea for the final gourd might be a shaker or a different gourd based music instrument, like a drum or a stringed instrument, if you're feeling like doing the work on either of those.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Cool idea too, will see how I go

@justdonis1891 2 жыл бұрын

eat raw meat?

@nandanbhardwaj8464 2 жыл бұрын

eats called a dugdugi, a stringed instrument in rural bengal. when I googled it sadly I only found folk songs describing the dugdugi but no actual pictures. i saw them a lot as a child.

@SuchiththaW 2 жыл бұрын

@@nandanbhardwaj8464 that's really sad. Lots of different cultures actually have bottle gourd instruments, but thanks you for sharing about the Dugdugi, we have a really similar instrument in Sri Lanka.

@mantosh56 2 жыл бұрын

@@nandanbhardwaj8464 damn I still see them sometimes on my village here in Bangladesh being played with by some local kid's!!!

@BeesAreNice Жыл бұрын

This is amazing, when I first watched this video I got so excited and told my partner I'm going to grow my own water bottle, they didn't even question it I think your other ideas like the bird feeder and plant holder are so cool I'm going to try this

@BotanicalProjects Жыл бұрын

As someone who loves repurposing items and collecting plants, I found joy watching how you turned a bottle gourd into a water bottle. I hope you can share more videos turning plants into helpful items around the house! Keep up the great work 👍

@vernonfrance2974 11 ай бұрын

Next you could repurpose the water bottle into a bird feeder!

@Qi33Qi 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up seeing these gourds in old Chinese TV shows and loved the look,they were used to hold water/alcohol etc and the mini ones were even used to hold 'poison' so it was a great bit of nostalgia for me. It's so cool to see it grow from seed! Always appreciate the work you put into each video 🙏

@TheZachary86 2 жыл бұрын

Lol I always thought it was made from clay. I didn’t know it was from a fruit

@CardSearcher911 2 жыл бұрын

And if you watch old Chinese martial arts films, it's always held by the drunken master.

@unrequitedlove4499 2 жыл бұрын

LoL yes I saw it too , in many old kungfu movies , its hanging in their waist.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps, glad you liked it! :)

@aesyamazeli8804 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought it's pottery!

@benny7257j 2 жыл бұрын

From food and water bottles to clothes and furniture we're so dependant on plants that it would be impossible to imagine life without them, Nice video 👍🏼 .

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! Thanks Benny :)

@tbone_2k217 2 жыл бұрын

Quick answer is China

@syko4786 2 жыл бұрын

Well, without plants we would all be dead 🌚

@toastedbananas4037 2 жыл бұрын

@@tbone_2k217 what kind of stupid answer is that?

@nekomimicatears 2 жыл бұрын

@@tbone_2k217 what?

@jamesstephenbrown Жыл бұрын

I was just reading about these in Jared diamond’s guns gems and steel and thought I’d look it up, I appreciate all the effort you put into this, and the historical context you put it in to.

@weekendstuff Жыл бұрын

Really cool plant haven't heared from it before. Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

@kkm969 2 жыл бұрын

The fruits/vegetables from the Gourd family is very useful. In India, it has a wide range of uses from making musical instruments to body sponges from some of those varieties.👍

@linde-annerolf9433 2 жыл бұрын

Same in South Africa 🇿🇦

@mirarman 2 жыл бұрын

একতারা বানাই এখানে

@manitadeb4787 Жыл бұрын

Yes it is called lau in Bengali and is used to make curries and even instruments like ektara . Jhinga another kind of gourd is used to make body sponge

@ScaryMan-vg8ix 2 жыл бұрын

calabash lean DEEP

@thebluedot4728 Жыл бұрын

u r so creative and patient

@vince7735 Жыл бұрын

I love your ideas for those hollowed gourds. So cool.

@oescobardo 2 жыл бұрын

Here in south Brazil (and also at Uruguai) we use these in large scale to drink a sort of tea called Chimarrão. There's a new moviment trying to introduce a industrial manifactured substitutes, but in general everybody here prefers to do it as we've always done, with a natural "cuia" made out of "porongo".

@disasterfairytale 2 жыл бұрын

In someparts of Chile, they are used to drink mate

@olagden2388 2 жыл бұрын

bah tche

@lenonel3286 2 жыл бұрын

Porongos are used to drink mate in Paraguay and the north east of Argentina

@ims3312 2 жыл бұрын

This worldwide plant in the video is called 葫芦 HuLu in China and has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years. Popular streaming platforms also picked up the name. I especially recommend you to get some Chinese hulu seeds, its fruit has a very good taste and shape.

@SethBlackMedia Жыл бұрын

The sound the bottle made when you drank from it in the end was quite satisfying as well.

@truthbetold2611 9 ай бұрын

This summer I kept waiting for my gourd plant to pollinate. When it didn't show sign of fruiting I pulled it to make room for other vining plants. Sad! It was a good-looking plant. For the sake of gourds I'll grow it again next year. Thank you for sharing. Your gourds are beautiful.

@angelicaterry3367 2 жыл бұрын

7:46 Seal innards with melted beeswax 8:24 Polish with mixture of one parts beeswax to 4 parts fractionated (prevents oil rancidity?) coconut oil (Or mineral oil). Leave for a while and then buff it up.

@razorreaper8440 2 жыл бұрын

This is a traditional plant from our culture since ancient times in Eastern Africa while growing up our fence was literally made of many of these plants and even other types that grow the even more bigger ones, today there are just on one side because the rest was cut down for some constructions... and in our culture the small ones are used to store wine and the bigger ones used to skim milk in order to make butter....

@rogerwilson53 Жыл бұрын

What country are you from?

@Alphae21 Жыл бұрын

do you not know how to make a pot

@ernestkhalimov1007 Жыл бұрын

Ethiopia?

@razorreaper8440 Жыл бұрын

@@ernestkhalimov1007 no but Rwanda... that is where those plants originates in the mountains ⛰ same goes to Burundi and some part of Uganda and DRC... also known as the great lakes region

@justincase3230 Жыл бұрын

@@razorreaper8440 how long do they last as a wine container and how do you clean them? I'm planning to grow some next year to try making my own and I like making wine :)

@maennli7849 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are amazing, informative and fun to watch.

@sawyer4427 Жыл бұрын

very thought provoking stuff! can't wait to grow a huge one to carry around on my back and fill with chakra infused sand to pass the next chunin exams

@OliviaLovesPugs 2 жыл бұрын

That “scoop” would make an awesome soup bowl with a handle! Overall this video was very cool and a really interesting demonstration of how past civilizations would have made use of these gourds.

@krazymuncher2288 2 жыл бұрын

You'd have to use another sealant other than bees wax tho, unless you want to only use it for gazpacho and other cold soups, also a spoon would easily scape the beeswax off.

@ethanretemyer2600 2 жыл бұрын

Good soup

@youtubeuser206 2 жыл бұрын

Soup isn't environmentally sustainable man

@juliusmoe-nstar8942 2 жыл бұрын

The Soup scoop gourd would be awesome to use in a soup kitchen to let the people in need to see that gourd give them a big scoop of food, nice way to measure a large scoop.

@beep0378 2 жыл бұрын

calabash moment

@elisemenne8758 9 ай бұрын

Hallo, KiwiGrower!, I have been following you for a year or two now, and just love every insightful, informative and utterly glorious videos. Thus one took me back to my childhood on the farm in South Africa, where your lovely bottle gourd, and many other gourds were the most used utensil ever!! That was long ago, before you were born, I am sure, but wow! those lovely memories never fade, neither the veggies and fruit grown on the farm - all grown on that fertile soil plus the wonderful cow manure, and chicken manure freely avaliable! For the last 37 years I have tried so hard to have the same results here in the sandy soil in Perth in Western Australia where we immigrated to. Your wonderful farm, those glorious Bluegums and green paddocks in the background only adds to my nostalgia, and also the general beauty of your much enjoyed and well produced videos. Your sponsors, and the way you introduce them, are as interesting. As for the gourds -- we even hung them on the wall with a trailing potplant grown in the side of the dried gourds, they also are a great surface to decorate with designs using pyrography pens before you varnish them in whatever way you choose. Sad ting is, so far, due to silly quarantine rules, I have not been able to find seed for this gourd, and many other great veggie seeds i would love to grow. You seem to be equally good at crafts as with farming, so give that a try! Love you getting into that massive Bluegum, with camera panning out! Wish you could meet, fall in love and marry my daughter!!

@gshantel2676 3 ай бұрын

That was awesome! Well done

@Aricku 2 жыл бұрын

The deep calls

@kristyn4340 2 жыл бұрын

9:17 is so ASMR worthy, the cork pop and the water moving in the bottle, satisfying and calming, that was so asmr awesome, and it was all from the gourd, that's crazy.

@denjua1 2 жыл бұрын

I thought he edited sound effects in

@wesleyanderson6551 7 ай бұрын

Such a cool idea, amazing video!

@andraflorescu 2 жыл бұрын

This is so cool, It'll be on my list for my future projects. Thanks for the tutorial, I think that it's such a good thing doing a plant based water bottle that is 100% natural and biogredable especially that right now I feel that everything or almost everything is made out of plastic

@rorored2274 2 жыл бұрын

Really took me back. My grandfather use to make those water bottles, to close it he would use a corncob. They are great and keep the water very cool.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting to use a corn cob - cool natural way to do it! Thanks

@ivoivic2448 2 жыл бұрын

there's also a special type of gourd, extremely elongated, which was used to pull rakija out of the barrels without needing a faucet. worked like pulling gas out of the gas tank. once you thought you filled it, you plugged the mouth end with the thumb and now had a full gourd of rakija to pour into a bottle, without needing a funnel too.

@Aaronn-je8cx 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always done things like that with a straw and drinks. Apply pressure to top, can lift the straw and no drink comes out. Science!

@insideimagery133 Жыл бұрын

We used them in Portugal, perhaps up to the 80's and 90's, in rural areas. I still see a couple of them, every now and then. Pretty cool share.

@coachangelap.wilson824 Жыл бұрын

👏brilliant. I subscribed, this is the future with artcraft like yours.

@mdmonirhossain7787 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Bangladesh 🇧🇩my grandma used to make jar from dried gourd to store grains, lentils,rice etc. I never saw the making process (because hardly I go to granny's house) thanks for sharing this video

@aduts1177 Жыл бұрын

এর বাংলা নাম কি?

@milanganesa8923 2 жыл бұрын

Calabash + beeswax, if u spawn on etris is pretty easy to craft a canteen

@winfyy4746 2 жыл бұрын

but what if the nomads attack me when i'm grabbing beeswax?

@totedilegamer 2 жыл бұрын

@@winfyy4746 just dont attack nomads?

@ElliottRodgers Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Learnt so much.

@electricPuha1 Жыл бұрын

Mines a patiently sitting on the deck outside my mom's place. Cannot wait to get into the crafty bit!

@TheDorianTube 2 жыл бұрын

Hah, I thought for a long time that Gourds were rough pottery. Didn't expect them to be organic. I wonder how much one of those can last before rotting away or crumbling. Cool

@basilabedallah5797 2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable but true i thought the same

@iloveamerica606 2 жыл бұрын

@@basilabedallah5797 same.

@Sir_4_5_SHOTS 2 жыл бұрын

Very long because my dads gourd hasn’t even crumbled or rotten yet even after years having it

@Sir.YeetusIII 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sir_4_5_SHOTS that's awesome!

@razorreaper8440 2 жыл бұрын

It can last as long as you don't break or Crack it..... we have some that are over 90 years old ...

@liveyourway 2 жыл бұрын

This kind of bottles have been used in India over thousands of years. We call it kamandal and it is mostly used by sants

@narithaghazi524 7 ай бұрын

Love your videos so much i love gardening and I love plants thank you for such amazing videos ❤🎉

@hollaceparadis6591 Жыл бұрын

This is the first video of yours, for me; the algorithm delivered it! Good show, I like gourds, and this was interesting

@nancyfletcher1532 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the water bottle tutorial! Last summer I grew (what I thought were Apple gourds) very large gourds. I must have 15 gourds which are currently drying in my house. I originally was planning to make bird houses out of them, but after watching your video, will make a couple of bowls and a water bottle or two, as well. I appreciate you - be well! 😊

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cool, hope it goes well!

@d1gitalbandit158 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, Nancy I know it seems like a big ask but if you have any would there be anyway I could buy them from you? If I could, what would be the price? If you don't have any or don't want to give me one, do you still have the seeds or know where I could get the seeds.

@dzmanhooo8602 Жыл бұрын

@@d1gitalbandit158 google it dude wtf do you live in 1960 s' ?????

@nerokyou Жыл бұрын

@@dzmanhooo8602 Don’t involve yourself with affairs that do not concern you, the user above simply asked a question.

@dzmanhooo8602 Жыл бұрын

@@nerokyou you just involved yourself with an affair that does not concern you... Doesn't that make you a hypocrite ?

@LanaBlakely 2 жыл бұрын

This is insanely cool

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Omg I'm star struck! You are one of my favorite youtubers! Love your podcast too :)

@fabriziododat7255 2 жыл бұрын

2 of my favs youtubers randomly talking to each other

@mohanbasava2115 Жыл бұрын

Great work mate

@TheHammerOfRogues Жыл бұрын

Badass! I'm definitely going to make one of these!

@RedHeadForester 2 жыл бұрын

It makes a surprisingly satisfying set of sounds when you open it and take a drink. I had no idea these existed until seeing this video, and now I want to grow some!

@vernonfrance2974 11 ай бұрын

In Wikipedia it shows how some are actually used in percussion instruments and to help sound resonate sound in other instruments too such as the guitar and the flute.

@TheXxpbsxX 2 жыл бұрын

5:35, this bird just shits in frot of the camera

@anastasiachery5874 Жыл бұрын

This was a fascinating video :) will grow these next year !

@khuptongfamily6744 2 жыл бұрын

It has been a part of our lives the Zomi. We call it the tribal refrigerator. It's still widely used in the villages to store water and keep it cool especially when going to the farm.

@mikerove15yearsago58 2 жыл бұрын

Omg calabash was so popular they made irl 😳😳

@tnorman86 Жыл бұрын

You could try make a vase with the last gourd. Very cool water bottle. I might have to give it a try. Love the bowls and scoop too.

@saicharankumar8605 Жыл бұрын

Hi buddy, I have remembered the ancient method of reserving utensils made by you great work

@cameo2160 2 жыл бұрын

Calabash

@KadirG. 2 жыл бұрын

we always use them as lanterns. cut the bottom drill a hole on top and put a light bulb in it. If you can drill several shapes on it like stars etc. this would be very nice :)

@pedasn Жыл бұрын

Wow.... Now that is real efficiency

@fergusdangerfield156 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, will be trying to grow these in my greenhouse!

@pryordvm 2 жыл бұрын

I've been growing these things for a few years and my basement is now full of the dried husks and many, craft projects. Bottles, birdhouses, drums, shakers, stringed instruments... Super cool!

@leo-zx6xl 2 жыл бұрын

calabash

@lynnedarling1135 Жыл бұрын

I'm so in love with this art..😊lovely

@nicholasr.7037 Жыл бұрын

You deserve a million + subscribers 👍🏾

@rainn_sq 2 жыл бұрын

Calabash.

@e50013 2 жыл бұрын

turned out amazing! took a agriculture class waaaay back in middle school but watching this channel makes me want to start a small vegetable garden in my backyard

@joohib Жыл бұрын

Very beautiful and highly creative and useful. Keep it up.

@ibrahimhlc Жыл бұрын

hey mate, that's so cool. great job.

@davidmorris3102 2 жыл бұрын

Gourds like the one you used for the scoop were used as dippers to drink from natural springs. I drank from one at a neighbor's house when I was a child.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool!

@AttackOnDevs 2 жыл бұрын

I’d call this either a Calabash or a Canteen

@GrumpyTinashe Жыл бұрын

We still use them in villages in Zimbabwe, Africa. And I must say drinking natural fresh spring water from one is awesome. The water seems to taste different

@JoeyPeeps157 Жыл бұрын

Very cool video!!

@theoneandonlybaylen 2 жыл бұрын

Deepwoken real calabash🤯

@surajshergill7777 Жыл бұрын

Gardening and growing stuff is the most boring thing for me. Somehow, this man got me to watch the whole video with interest and awe. Awesome work dude! That bottle looks so cool! I want one now!

@vernonfrance2974 8 ай бұрын

@surajshergill7777 As a child I was alone a lot and was lucky to live in an area that was not yet totally spoiled by modern agricultural methods. I was able to observe a lot of forms of wild life and seeing plants grow was amazing to me. That a tiny seed could become a big plant with beautiful flowers and fruit in only a few months is still a great mystery and like a miracle to me.