I've not grown bottle gourds, but I find that most squash-type flowers only last a day. The ones I can see on your photo look like male flowers - has your plant produced any female flowers to be pollinated yet?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi, I have been growing various types of gourds for a few years now and have learnt and thing or tow about their habits. Yours look a bit under watered to me. If you grow them in pots they will dry very quickly. One tip I can give you is to put the pot in a generours bowl/basin (basically its own reservoir) and keep it topped up with water containing a weak feed. These babies and thirsty and hungry. Oh! and they don't like getting water on the flowers as this may cause the sun to burn them. A pot will never keep your gourd happy and you will always have to give the plant extra water. Hope this helps.
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I've not grown bottle gourds, but I find that most squash-type flowers only last a day. The ones I can see on your photo look like male flowers - has your plant produced any female flowers to be pollinated yet?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Where are you , Naveen.?
They look a bit advanced for UK.
No they have not produced any female flowers yet..:(
I am in India....fidgetbones