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I clicked for the shower scene. This guy knows what he's doing

I know this episode was all about luffahs, but the award for the best cameo appearance goes to the carrot. It deserves an Emmy. 😂

The kiwi grower and shower (im so sorry). XD

clicked for the shower, stayed for learning loofas come from the garden!! very cool

Came for the shower stayed for the grower! ❤️💪🏼😎👍🏼❤️

What a stud. Love all that ginger fur ❤

I see you know your audience well lol

Haha bro, first naked gardening day, now this 😆 always entertaining 👌💚

I’ve been subscribed to this channel for almost 10 years waiting for this precise moment. Patience pays off.

These really should be a part of every homestead! They're perfect because you can eat them, use them dried for many things and sell/trade the dried sponges!

Oooo the shower scene!! 🥵😝

Best opening to one of your videos ever! 10 out of 10! :-D

You definitely know how to read the room. Well done 😊

Yeah, people will want you to link your OF account after that intro

Lovely fur !

OMG FINALLY I GET CONFIRMATION THAT YOU'RE FIT AF

the carrot tho..... looooool ;)

I’m totally amazed by this - I absolutely thought they came from the sea!

We need a longer shower scene

For the non-gardening fans... second shower scene is at 10:16 😛

We're not here for the gardening and he knows it.

Now this is what needs to be taught in school.

He knows what some of those extra views are.

Dam Dam Dam Does this mean I have to give them another go even though in my heart of hearts I know I don't have the climate for them. Champion video. Got to love that Kiwi humor.

Wow home growing loofas is pretty cool. I watched the entire vid. Now let’s see him work his shower magic with that carrot. 🥕😅

I'm convinced I need to grow these for food. I've seen a few videos suggesting them for my area because its hot and humid and other squash doesn't do so well. I didn't realize they were so easy to process into a sponge either, pretty useful plant.

For years I thought it was from the ocean, but I have a plant growing now. It’s one of the most difficult squash to grow, trimming the seed shell helps it with spouting

In Japan, loofahs are also used as scrubbing brushes, and loofah water, extracted by cutting the stems, has long been used as a beauty essence. Loofahs contain a lot of saponin.

Thank you, Algorithm 😂❤ *Takes up gardening immediately*

Could you do more episodes in the shower? (Asking for a friend. 🤔)

This video has something for everyone!

3:48, nice icons

Fascinating plant. Thank you for taking an entire season to put this content together.

Just a tip for these. If you sand off a section of the seed hull or use a nail clipper to puncture the hull, they will germinate quicker.

Fun fact you can peel off the skin and stew it with masala and eggplant and mint until the water it gone and it’s a nice chutney. You can also dice the meat and stir fry it with chili’s garlic and mustard seed. Also you can deep fry the seeds.

Omg your best intro ever! 😍😍😍😍

Thank you for this video. I planted luffa several years ago and reached the stage of cleaning. It was disastrous. I learned from you how to remove the dandruff and clean it. I am grateful to you my friend

Shower scene caught me off guard. But great, informative video. Thank you for your time and education.

This brings back some great memories! When I was growing up my grandmother grew luffas up and along an old south facing wood post fence from the 1950s (we live above the equator) on the border of her vegetable garden alongside the green beans growing up wood tripods. Morning glory flowers grew along the fence too and it was always my favourite part of the garden.

Hilarious first minute! You're such a natural guy, love it 😀

I respect a man with a hairy chest like myself.

My grandma used to make this for dishwashing! But I’ve never known how to exactly make one, thanks for the video! Also luffa tastes pretty good in stir fry or soup.

bro's music choice is all over the place, one moment it's a suspenseful horror theme then next it's a travel vlog soundtrack XD never change!

Man that's amazing for many years I showered using those vegetable lufas and never actually got to see how the process to plant and grow them.

What a fantastic idea! Thanks a lot for another special video :)

I did not expect to be learning about Loofa tonight 😂😂😂 so cool. I love Loofa!. I will have to try and find some seed.

What a catch!

I use the Tarpon sponge…never knew you could get one from a plant. Amazing!

Great video as always - enjoyed your sense of humor. Could you do a video on how you made those soaps? That looked very interesting, and I'd love to know how you did that.

I never thought of actually eating this 🤔. Your dish looked 🔥

Wow! Would love to grow these but our seasons are really short with very unpredictable summers. 😢. Thanks for the video! 👍🏻

I've got some seeds to grow next spring. Love your deep dives, thanks Kalem!

Such a coincidence, I was just googling luffa the other day and hoping I could find somewhere nearby to buy it. Might give growing them a go myself now! Not sure there was enough detail on how to use the luffa in the shower though, might need a part two on that 😂 😂 😂

We grew these on our farm in Mississippi, USA before they became so popular. People were fascinated when we showed them how they were natural scrubbers. Ours grew to be considerably larger than the ones in this video. We have very long, hot and humid summers in Mississippi.

Really cool video, as always! Keep up the great work!

Amazing video Kalem. Love what you're doing with your garden. It's really inspiring

My friend just gave me a loofah plant so I'm ready to learn

I always enjoy the gardening content. The shower scene was a nice bonus.

Hi! I really didn't know you could eat this thing, I've always assumed it was sold just as a sponge... Or maybe, that's what there is around...I'll need to check. But I've found later some Italian recipes (I'll be in Italy for the 11th time in a few weeks) using loofah the same way as a zucchini, and stuffed looks good. And thanks for the video, and the fun!

Best intro ever! Will give them a go next year!

I direct sow luffa 2 weeks after last frost as the soil warms. I've found that flowering is sporadic before the summer solstice. As the days grow shorter, flowering and fruit set is much heavier. I usually have 120-130 frost-free days for the fruit to mature after the summer solstice. When cleaning dry luffa, I cut the flower end off before soaking and shake the seeds out. It works better.

Great. Very useful idea. Even when we were kids, we used to use these luffas in our village.

Thank you for this video. It is really good.🙂

Fun fact: In Korea, we refer to that plant as 'Su-Sae-Mi.' Interestingly, we also use the term 'Su-Sae-Mi' to describe a scrubber or sponge, similar to how the word 'sponge' in English originates from the actual sea creatures.

a carrot? seriously- I love this guy!!!!

These are my go to for showering forget those microplastic spreading loofas

He knows how to make the perfect size hole. Now summer is on the way save the laundry bill with your top off in the garden is always a great idea. Great video keep it up.

Best Loofah video EVER!!!

Daaamn... more of this please haha 🤣

The intro was hysterical.

A carrot... 😉😂😂😂

Shower carrots, loofahs and gingers!! Oh my!

I go buy mine from the supermarket. Looking at all the hassle you had to go through to get yours by growing them, I'm glad I do (re-inveting the wheel).

Wow! Great video. Also I have never seen the process of Loofa sponges before. That is really interesting. Jeff

Wonderful video.. Love NZ. Miss it Terribly. Howdy from the South Texas coast near Corpus Christi. Blazing Summer August heat here.

This thumbnail was so clickbaity and I loved it and I’m not sorry about it 😍

Sweet! Was considering growing it! Now i'm gonna have an idea how and what.

I just tried to introduce my son to your channel, he already follows you.

Excellent video! I'm going to try eating some when they're young.

I literally said "that's awesome" when you showed the luffa after peeling the skin and you said it yourself! Really cool.

7: 01 Bitter Gourd is good for lowest blood sugar level. you can pick up when it green just slice it smaller then you need to soak with salt for a while to reduce it bitter taste, then you can add minced garlic, onion, a little bit chilly in a bit of oil, 1 - 2 eggs and fried/saute all of them. this is best medicinal property dish that you can eat with rice.

Looking good The sponges too

Amazing! Thank you Kiwi Grower!!

I definitely want to hang out with "intrusive thoughts Kalem" sometime 😝

Lol as a tourist I was told in Tunisia its the sea-cucumber xD Althou it's a bit harsh for our skin (hands should be enough), sometime, in the future, I will grow enough to use year round in the kitchen dishwashing 😌 until I use the one piece I managed to grow on festive days xD

I've been using luffa sponge for years, it is really good for the skin.❤👍. Tks for sharing, i think i should try to grow them at the backyard . It is not easy to find loffa, the price is getting up.

I've never grown any of those I will have to grow some next year. Thanks

use it like okra for stir fries and soups. It is can be slimy, but the flavor is like a squash so it will take on the flavors around it.

🚿🧼 Do you have a video on how to make homemade soaps? This video on Loofah is Fantastic!

This is a very common vege we eat in China, pick it at the right time, they can be really sweet, good for stir fry, when it ages and become tough, it's common that we use it like sponge as you do

I live in the southeastern part of the USA and it's my understanding that the loofa is part of the gourd family. We have a lot of them where I live.

0:04 nice size carrot, so naughty

This vegetable is called ridged gourd in English and we have this quite common in India and we have this vegetable quite commonly in India...also we have been making loofah out of this vegetable for generations...its just now that the west is catching upto this Indian thing

Great video! Um ... now I'm waiting for the carrot video. ;)

WOOF!!

I usually raise luffa for eating, and I find that the ridged luffa rather than the smooth luffa shown in the video, are best for culinary use.The smooth ones seem better for sponges. I usually harvest them not much longer than 8 inches for peak flavor and texture. One thing I have noticed about luffa is that they are day-length sensitive - they will not set fruit here in Central Virginia (Approximately 37.5º North latitude) when the daylight hours are long, They bloom like mad, but no fruit. I haven't done any studies, but here they do not seem to begin to set fruit til late July - early l August or so, which cuts down on the time they have to mature to a sponge producing stage, though usually at least some will mature. (Our frost comes in towards the first couple weeks in November. If they can be started enough ahead to be flowering in May, which is a trick, since April is sometimes a bit chilly, they will make an early fruit set which has plenty of time to mature. (Then nothing more till later in the summer.) Our summers here are pretty much tropical for 3 to 4 months, which luffa seems to appreciate. In my garden the vines easily get to 20 to 30 feet long (6 to 9 meters) and branch vigorously. They show every inclination to want to take over the universe, so a sturdy trellis and plenty pf room are good.

The shower scenes! Nice chest hair Dude!

THE shower part needed a bit of full nudity lol

Yeah it's really cool to see that you can just take the fruit as is and have got yourself a nice sponge already. In colder climates you might just grow them in an ordinary backyard greenhouse. That extends your season by about two months already and should hopefully give enough time for the fruit to mature. From the short clip of your chickens I wondered if there were breeds that were developed in New Zealand? You're looking super fit as well, nice work! Cheers from Germany, where the summer isn't really sure if it would'nt rather be winter...