Can anyone ID this gourd
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Is that a colloquial term? BC I don't see anything when I search
gooseneck wimple bimple
Oh haha i thought you where seeing if ppl could geo guess the location by the ground
I think you're right, I bet the green is left over from immature phase or something
Lots of variables. Leaf cover. Weeds surrounding them. Wet ground. Weather. Just normal. Not like force grown stuff for supermarket chains.
Unfortunately, most squash gourds or pumpkins besides luffa grow here without heavy pesticides BC of the squash bugs.
Hard to win sometimes.
Its fine, we just change what we grow to not deal with the pests. One day we'll have our soil amended enough probably to deter pests.
Hard to be sure from a single pic, but they look like ornamental Cucurbita pepo - mixed bottle and crookneck types. Did they come from a decorative gourd seed mix?
No idea, they come from peoples porches that we get them from who give them to us to feed to our pigs. We get about 3 pickup truck loads every time this year
Nice! Porch to pig pipeline is elite waste management. I’d only watch for heavy mold and any gourds that smell insanely bitter. Otherwise you’re turning porch decor into bacon calories.