Tamburi sorekayi plant
₹329.00
Yields A pick every 3 days across 5–6 months
Live bottle gourd of the round tamburi type. Crops for five to six months, and needs a strong overhead pandal.
Lagenaria siceraria
Tamburi sorekayi / ಸೋರೆಕಾಯಿ (Bottle gourd)
- Grow bag12 in wide x 18 in tall
- Ships at2 true leaves, vining, 3 weeks old
- First harvestFirst gourds in 9-11 weeks
- Sunlight6+ hours direct
- Best plantedFebruary-September
Grown to order — delivered in about 15 days
We start it when you order and hand it over once it is established and hardened off. That is what makes the olla work from day one: the roots have already grown down to it before it reaches you.
SKU SOR-TAM
Water it through the olla. That is the only instruction.
A buried terracotta olla releases water at exactly the rate the soil draws it, over a base of well-rotted wood that holds moisture through a hot week. You cannot overwater it and it will not dry out on you. The roots reach the olla before the plant leaves us, so it works from the day it arrives.
Details
The round-fruited tamburi type, traditionally dried and hollowed for the tambura sound box, which is where the name comes from. Eaten young it is a straightforward sorekayi for palya and huli.
Build the support before the plant arrives, and build it properly. A mature bottle gourd fruit is heavy enough to pull down a light bamboo frame, and a collapsed pandal in the middle of a season is not recoverable.
The longest-running gourd here — a healthy plant crops for five to six months against the six to eight weeks you get from ridge gourd.
Leave one fruit to mature fully on the vine if you want a dried shell. It takes months and the vine stops producing while it does, so save that for the end of the season.
Specifications
| Botanical name | Lagenaria siceraria |
|---|---|
| Grow bag | 12 in wide x 18 in tall, filled |
| Ships at | 2 true leaves, about 3 weeks old |
| First harvest | 9-11 weeks from delivery |
| Sunlight | 6+ hours direct |
| Support | Strong overhead pandal |
| Season | February-September |