The Complete Luffa(Loofah) Growing Guide | What You Didn’t Know About Growing Luffa

GROW LUFFA!
I am so excited to provide you all this guide to grow your own Luffa at home. Most people think that luffa sponges come from the sea but you can grow this gourd in your own backyard! In this video we give you all the details necessary, from planning to planting, in order for you to grow luffa and great sponges successfully.
Happy Growing!
Sincerely,
Phil
Owner & Creator at Earth, Nails & Tails | Growing the Gardener in You
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Intro:00:22
Trellising: 00:40
Starting Seeds 2:04
Soil Prep: 3:33
Transplanting 5:09
Watering 6:21
Luffa Life Cycle 7:25
When to Harvest 8:00
Peeling Hack 9:12
Live Peeling 10:00
How to Cure 10:53
Outro 12:00

[@Mitskibiggestfan]

he deserves more views and subs

[@earthnailsandtails]

thanks a bunch! I hope you share some of the ones you love.

[@katclaus7425]

Thank you for all the info. I failed last year and didn't get any luffa. This year, i have several plants and will try the products you mentioned.

[@listeningspeaking3]

Excellent video! Very helpful. You’re a natural in front of the camera, Phil.

[@earthnailsandtails]

Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@Theslowandsteadyhomestead]

Just ordered seeds from your Etsy store! Thanks for this info! Can’t wait to take this on in the spring. Hoping this north Texas sun and heat serves us well! 🎉

[@earthnailsandtails]

Thanks for your support and best of luck! I hope you are pleasantly surprised :) I would love to see the results :)

[@Theslowandsteadyhomestead]

@@earthnailsandtails thank you, I hope so too! And I’m planning to document the process so I’ll let you know how it goes! Merry Christmas!

[@viviteshome9983]

Thanks for the video. I also failed last year. This year I am going to try to follow and apply what you did. At the end of your video you showed when you were drying. Is it from one seed one plant? How many did you plant? Also I don’t have a trellis. But I have bushes. Can I let it grow on top of the bushes?

[@Dylan-da-Spider]

Great video mate, really helpful, informative and really professional, hope you keep this up. I'm sure your channel will explode with growth soon.

[@earthnailsandtails]

I appreciate the feedback and well wishes! I'll keep doing what I'm doing to help make us all better.

[@ChristinesBackyardGarden]

Great video! Thank you!

[@nathalykim1263]

this is the good thing about living in a tropical country, I just picked a seed from my store bought looufa while I was showering a few weeks ago, put it in a vase, and now I have a little tree unfortunately I don't have the space for them to grow as you showed, maybe I can borrow my family's garden space lol

[@earthnailsandtails]

Very cool!

[@cheaputhyvan4705]

Very good

[@vickitaylor714]

Awesome videos

[@earthnailsandtails]

Thanks so much!

[@eunbidraws3778]

Thank you!!

[@earthnailsandtails]

You're welcome!

[@cokesonyou1201]

This was very informative! Planing to challenge myself on loofa growing next year so this helped with many nice tips to keep in mind! What would be a good idea for fertilizers?

[@earthnailsandtails]

I’m so happy that I could be of help and hope you find success next season. I found a granular 14-14-14 at the big box store but you can blend something personal if you want. I use Down To Earth fertilizers in the rest of my vegetable garden and I have links to them in the videos description! (Products we Love)

[@Greysona]

Just found this channel, love it! I’ve been wanting to set up a loofah plant!

[@earthnailsandtails]

Glad you are enjoying it!

[@leighdavids1395]

This video is so excellent 👏 👌 🙌 my luffa plants have just sprouted and I'm hopeful.

[@earthnailsandtails]

Thanks so much! I’m glad it was helpful and best of luck!

[@sallyjohnstone8535]

lovely vid. great tips for loofah. some of mine went a bit mouldy, now i have learnt how to avoid that, excellent, thanks only one little sad thing... opening bags and mixing their contents isn't making your own soil. pls try n use less store bought fertilizer and soil. we must reduce plastics. brilliant to see young people getting involved in gardening. so, overall massive applause and congratulations. 💚💚💚

[@earthnailsandtails]

Glad you liked the video!

[@jansshrimps3785]

Man you are heavily underrated Loved the vid

[@earthnailsandtails]

Appreciate the love!

[@Mouseend]

Tnx! Tried to grow them last year, but was to late on planting them, så the frost was here before they even got big lol. Live in southern sweden, so yeah. Well tnx for the advice, will hopefully succeed this year because of them! :D

[@earthnailsandtails]

I hope you succeeded too!

[@bobshermer6246]

That's awesome. Thanks for the video. I'm growing meaty loofa and long loofa. Didn't know any of your tricks, and they're really small right now. You mentioned 14 14 14. I'm looking to get some, but I thought it was a liquid. Before I knew what to do I just planted them with compost and topsoil mix and some manure. I sprinkled on Milorganite 6-2-0, just recently. Not sure what else to do

[@earthnailsandtails]

They like it really warm. I think what you’ve done so far is good. Just be patient. See what happens once the weather warms up and gets hot. They’ll really start to grow.

[@MarieDipiero]

Thank you for the great information. Would loofah grown in east facing sun do well?

[@earthnailsandtails]

glad you enjoyed! They would grow best in full sun

[@tobiashby4529]

this is perfect, I would like some seeds to be able to grow in Central Florida. Checking out your Etsy page now, live in a development so I should be able to grow these on my side yard with a trellis of some sort, well hoping anyway.

[@earthnailsandtails]

Awesome! Luffa would love Florida weather. We are currently out of stock but once we get this years crop we will have more available

[@sue6758]

Thanks for this video! I also visited your Etsy store,, which says you dispatch from Canada-the garden in your video, is it in Canada, and which part? Just curious-I usually garden on Vancouver Island, but a recent move to Nova Scotia has me adjusting planting dates and I am determined to grow these gourds. So far, 8 of 10 seeds have germinated on the windowsill-the easy part!

[@earthnailsandtails]

Odd that is says Canada. We sell internationally but are in the US.

[@NutritionMattersLLC]

I saw a comment that someone soaked the seeds overnight before planting, but I didn't see that in the video. Maybe I missed it? Just wondering if you recommend soaking the seeds before planting and if so, for how long?

[@earthnailsandtails]

I don’t find it necessary but you can if you’d like

[@bethanysmith5856]

Got a caged raised bed due to deer, I'm thinking of trying to grow 1 there & find shade loving plants in there.

[@earthnailsandtails]

Deer are always tough, they know where the good stuff is

[@clarkl4177]

Mine did great with NO transplant shock: started seeds in TOILET PAPER TUBES😅 just popped the entire tube in the ground 🙌

[@earthnailsandtails]

That is awesome!

[@TnT_F0X]

my loofas have yet to flower, Z6 september 14th. currently twelve and a half daylight hours today I have a single plant with around 50' of total vines thriving in this cloudy rainy year. I'm still not even seeing buds, but I have been spotting carpenter ants. Going to give the entire greenhouse a once over with insect killing soap and neem oil. I've given all my plants a bonemeal feeding two weeks ago. Am I missing something obvious? I've been fertilizing and neem oiling as-needed but am I missing something?

[@earthnailsandtails]

luffa loves the heat, the vines being so long is a good sign! i honestly think it might be the temperature. how many days lef tin your season are there?

[@Theslowandsteadyhomestead]

I have a follow up question for you! I have a 2’ x 4’ garden bed (in ground) I’m planning to use for the luffa in the spring. With that space, and if I use a 16’ x 50in cattle panel as an arch trellis, what would you say a safe number of plants would be? From what I understand I could plant 2 per sq Ft, but I feel like that would end up being too many plants for a single cattle panel…I’d love to hear your thoughts! I could also do two panels and tunnel them if need be. Thanks in advance!

[@earthnailsandtails]

Great question! In a 2x4 bed I would plant no more than 2. I’d actually recommend planting one for every 3-4sqft but I think 2 will do okay in that space 👍🏼

[@Theslowandsteadyhomestead]

@@earthnailsandtails thank you so much for the reply! And one cattle panel trellis would be big enough to support two plants?