But there hasn't been any flower on the Ridge Gourd plant though it is thriving and has climbed a trellis of 4 feet. Using fertilizer with too high of a nitrogen content. Mix compost with this soil and refill the pit. I think pollination helped but not sure. Any ideas or suggestions as to what will help? But I have one bottle gourd and one baby bitter melon. Ridge Gourd (Turai) is the only vegetable of the summer season that you would like to plant in your garden. This is just an observation , your mileage might vary..don't sue me . Plenty of flowers but no gourds develop. I have a similar thing with ridge gourd. A no nonsense commercial Hydroponics Training In India. Try hand pollination of bottle gourd flowers. I have seedlings of snake gourd ridge gourd and bottle gourd. the leaves would curl and plants would not grow further. Buy Ridge Gourd F1 Hybrid - Vegetable Seeds and 6000+ more gardening products online. Reply Delete. Keep the soil separately. bitter gourd needs pollination to set fruits. Do not overwater to the plant or do not allow the soil to dry out. Growing luffa (sponge gourd) plants requires a certain amount of patience. It may be allowed to mature, cleared of all seeds, and used as a kitchen or bath sponge, also known as a loofah. nocturnal bloom bottle gourd flowers are white in color, and large flowers, cheers. The female flowers have a small fruit attached to its bottom while male flowers do not have the fruit. All the flowers are not getting pollinated. For Pollination I do not have much help from insects! the ratio of male to female is usally about 10-14:1 . most of the flowers could be make flowers. Gourd plants produce long vines with long-stemmed, large, oval or triangular lobed leaves. The luffa gourd plant is an annual tropical or subtropical climbing vine. Plants are around 2 month old. Your plants will flower 80-90 days from sowing, it has separate Male & female flowers on the same plant. It grows for a longer time than most gourds. This is not happening with male flowers. The plants are in pots in balcony with a soil mix of cow dung, some vermi-compost and neemcake. Growing luffa plants is an enjoyable project but not one for the impatient. I pollinated 2-3 and they seem to grow well. The fruit will be ready in 3-4 weeks. You can easily grow it in your patio or the containers. Looks like you don't have any pollinators. 4. In case you do not get bees in your garden you need to hand pollinate the flowers. ridge gourd plant not flowering provera 2 seeds per bag are ideal and 2 weeks after germination, they can be planted at 2 seedlings per pit in the main field.40 to 50 cartload well decomposed Farm Yard Manure should be applied at the time of soil or field preparation. Hai usha madam i am having experience in pruning rigid/bitter/snake gourds.Prune the end of main stem when it reaches 1mtr long this will shock the plant ,and laterals begin to grow from end.Allow 4 laterals from the main end,remove all the laterals below till the bottom end of plant. There are fruit bearing flowers, but they turn pale and do not grow. It s not a typical garden plant. The main stem will produce only male flowers &laterals produce females.When the laterals produce 6 leaves prune the end,allow the 6 leaves to produce 2nd generation laterals,repeat the process for remaining laterals.This process will endure grow of laterals only,theme in this is vine wants to grow fast by, pruning the main shoot which giving male flowers having habit of growing lengthy puts its energy to laterals which is giving females.Repeat the process again as for you follow the growth.Over all pruning leads only females. There were lots of insects in both gourd plants and even on okra. Luffa Gourd Planting. 1 packet contains Ridge Gourd F1 Hybrid - 5gm seeds. I shall update you when they start bearing flowers and fruits. applestar Mod Posts: 27992 Joined: Thu May 01, 2008 11:21 pm Location: Zone 6, NJ (3/M)4/E ~ 10/M. The bitter gourd has been flowering for the past three weeks. So far out of 10-15 fruit bearing flowers only one has become a fruit. Today I have prepared organic insecticide. I thought vermiculite provide a lot of nutrition and it gets saled here in my area at in one kg bag for Rs 50!