Guiro/Bottle Gourd Seeds
$ 1.99
General Plant Information: The bottle gourd known as guiro in the Caribbean is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. The fresh fruit has a light-green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They grow in a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, more than a metre long.
In the Caribbean the gourd is used as a musical instrument called Güiro. The Güiro is a percussion instrument used in a variety of Caribbean rhythms like salsa and guajira. In Puerto Rico is a folkloric musical instrument used to play 'Trova, Seis and Decima'.
Growing requirements:
USDA ZONES: |
9-11 |
SUN: |
Full sun |
WATER: |
Medium |
FOLIAGE: |
Ever Green |
Harvest Time |
120 days |
Information for planting:
- Days to emerge: 7 days
- Seed depth: 1/2 inches
- Seed spacing: 36 inches
- Row: 60 inches
Information about our seeds: Most of our seeds come from traditional crops that farmers have cultivated for many years on natural managed lands. These seeds are not GMO, do not chemically or biologically treated and are processed with minimal mechanization. Seeds are hand selected, prepared and packaged.
Shipping details: We do shipments by First Class Mail Services (2-5 days). To keep you informed we will to send shipping updates regularly or a tracking number and you can track your package through usps.com.
Shipping weight: 1 oz
Guarantee: Seeds are living products that depend on many factors such as proper planting time and technique, depth of sowing, soil, proper germination environment, fertility, disease control, insect control, and reasonable weather for direct sown seeds. If any of these factors are not right, it may cause the seed to not perform and because most, if not all, of these are out of our control, most of the success of these seeds is in the hands of the grower. If they have been cared for properly and still fail to grow, we will replace the seed, one time.
How to contact us:
- Leave message in our email: "gonzalezagrogardens@outlook.com". We always respond messages within hours.