Gourds 101: A Quick Start Guide to Gourds
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- www.WelburnGourdFarm.com We often get questions from newer gourd crafters about our gourds, so we decided to ask Phoebe Welburn to answer some of the most common questions we get about gourds.
In this video, Phoebe will show you:
• Fabulous finished gourd art
• How to clean the outside of your gourds
• The differences between various gourd shapes and sizes
• How our gourds are priced and much more!
Then in the second part of this video, Phoebe will take you out to the gourd fields to show you what most people never see: the gourds as they are drying!
This is a video for you if you're new to gourds and it's filled with information that even some seasoned gourd crafters might not have known. Enjoy the stunning visuals and never before seen footage of the growing fields!
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Wonderful video. Thank you for not ruining your presentation with the canned music that is so very popular on Low quality videos that plague utube.
This is so interesting! I have never given a thought to gourds and the way they grow. Thank you so much for the video, I truly enjoyed seeing and hearing about them. Regards!
I love gourds. I enjoy growing them though. I'd love to see more videos focused on gardening gourds, your farm when the gourds are green and growing on the vines. Would be great to see them change over the seasons.
We have the pleasure to live in southern California close enough to the farm to drive in and purchase there. The folks are very friendly, helpful, and ready to assist in any way they can.
Seeing those racks of gourds under the oak trees is a sight to send any artist's heart palpitating and being able to wander around to choose your own gourds is an absolute treat. We always spend more than we expect when we visit but being able to drive home with big bags of future art in the car is well worth it!
Love that leather look and many other beautiful work.
Thanks for showing
Thank you so much for this video! Very very informative and helpful!
Simply beautiful
I made an ocean drum at the farm years ago. So much fun to take your classes! Thank you for doing all that you do.
Tracey Osterlind awesome
I'd like to see your work !-_•
I've gave away the ocean drum to artists playing in healing ceremonies. The teacher of our drum class was very spiritual, making it a really beautiful day. We added prayers and meditations into our circle as we cleaned our gourds and stretched the hides. Seemed appropriate for it to go with the healers when I met them.
Beautiful Job!
I have the tall vase looking ones growing and was looking for ideas and happened to stumble upon this channel! 😍 I am so excited to turn it into art!! I absolutely love how detailed you are with the information, thank you so very much!! New sub😀
Thank you! As an artist and artesan I am in a constant need of know how of basically on everything. And I mean it, everything from pattern cutting to embroidery techniques, name of tools and stuff, weaving techniques, macramae, basket weaving, metal work, Stone cutting, Wood carving,...it all starts with an idea, and then the research to find techniques and materials to perform it. I am a painter in first hand, A Portrait painter, yet there is much more to my personal creative drive. Thank you for your time and exellent narration! So Welburn Gourd Farm to remember! Noted. Exellent, so you cultivates these guys, ecologically, and ship worldwide! Personal question, what you guys do during the growing season, between harvests?
Here is another suggestion for a gourd project that is easy and fun. Make a jack-o-lantern. Historically, jack-o-lanterns were carved from gourds or even large potatoes. The history of the jack-o-lantern is interesting and your gourd jack-o-lantern will no doubt spark conversation when it is displayed around Halloween time. Halloween comes from the old pagan holiday of Samhain (pronounced "Sow-Wen") when it was believed that the spirits of the dead could once again walk the earth for the night. The spirits would often perpetrate mischief on the living so people would dress up to look like spirits and go around checking on their neighbors. The carved gourds held a candle to light the path. On arrival at a neighbor's house, one was served refreshments. Usually small cakes and local ale. This is the origin of trick-or-treat as well as the jack-o-lantern.
If I get an orange colour pumpkin fruit from a supermarket and let it dry in the open air ,will it be hollow and be used for crafting as your gourds on the farm?
@@mezotherock
No. It will turn rotten. Yuk.
Lovely presentation! Thank you🕊I will order a box very soon! Do you give rides around the farm as well? It is just stunning!
OMG!
Welbourn gourd farm is the BEST place to buy gourds!
I bought from them years ago
It was amazing and fun experience that I'll NEVER forget
You CAN'T go wrong from buying from them!!
100%
Recommend them 👍👍👍👍
My cat watched this whole video. She really likes you and your gourds lol... wish I could attach a pic!
Beautiful farm and vids! I have a whole new respect for gourds that I never knew existed! Thank you!!!!
Very Beautiful it can used as vase or round one for putting edibles and small ones can b used as piggy banks
New subscriber. Great video!!!!
Hi. Thank you for this video. Planning to have my own farm to have this type of crafts as well but I will be planting a different plant called Calabash or Crescentia Cujete. Have you tried that plant in your crafts?
Out of curiosity, do you know how many feet to keep various strains from crossing? I was told something like half a mile?
Can you spray them with water to get the wax off?
Do you have to treat them before designing them 2:24
Nice
10:00 how to wash
19:00 drying Gourds on the farm
Can you give me any information on the ability to use gourds as storage for other veggies: dried beans, corn, etc. I'm looking into information on more utilitarian uses, although crafting into art pieces is also attractive to me. Useful first...then beauty. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated as I seem to not be finding much information on using gourds as storage anywhere else.
Do you really scrub all those gourds by hand??? That would be an awful lot of work! But they are beautiful and I love the painted ones. Thanks for sharing!
Como desearía trabajar con ella en esas artesanías tan lindas.
Acá en El Salvador les llamamos tecomates y morros y me estoy queriendo iniciar en ese arte pero no he recibido ningún tipo de orientación y por eso ando por acá buscando.
Tampoco comprendo lo que dice pues no hablo inglés pero los hechos hablan mas que mil palabras.
Felicidades.!!!
I would love the one with the giraffe for my mom.
Aren't the little jewelry gourds the original Maracas used in music playing?
Thanks it was an amazing video and I 'd like to ask you a question
If I get an orange colour pumpkin fruit from the supermarket and let it dry,will I get a hollow gourd as yours on the farm?
or it must be dried when it is still green and just harvested?
Gourds are in the same family as a pumpkin but they are not a pumpkin. When comparing the two, gourds are mostly ornamental in type. On the contrary, pumpkins are edible and are eaten when ripe. Another difference that can be seen between the two is that gourds can be only dried when mature and pumpkins can be roasted, baked, steamed, or boiled when mature.
@@gourdtv thanks for informing me...so how can I get these gourds...am in Cairo Egypt
I think they aren't grown here
but I liked crafting on them so much
what about the price for the tall gourd like the big one carved and shown on the video?
@@mezotherock Please send an email to info@welburngourdfarm.com
I grew alot of them every years to eat or too much then give away or sale in local store when it 10days for the day blooming from the flowers
To keep this dry about 3 months
Not sure why there is no one producing driking bottles at larger volumes to reduce presence of plastic ...
Can you grow gourds in the same soil year after year?
Hi I would love to buy
How long do they last
I have been looking for a 17 inch diameter bottle gourds replacing a gourd that belonged to my father? I hope you can help me.
Adorei poderia ensinar sou do Brasil
Thank you for this video. My question: I want to grow a variety of gourds and use the seed from them the next year. My concern is that they will cross pollinate and I won't get the gourds I want the next season. Is this a problem? Do I have to buy new seed every year to avoid growing mutts. Thank!
Yes You need to buy seeds every year or you can hand pollinate. Here's a link to a good book on growing gourds: www.caning.com/html/product/GRD-B/19001.html
It will show you how to hand pollinate to keep seed from crossing.
There is also a CZcams video about hand pollination that shows how to close the flower to prevent other pollinators from getting in.
Nice video. I never seen verity of gourd, can I get some different different gourd seed ? Thanks.
Here is a link to Gourd Seeds: welburngourdfarm.com/products/gourd-seeds
I planted some gourd plants this spring and they never got to be more than three inches high. The soil was a mix of 50/50 potting mix with some coconut coir added at 1/3. I kept them watered but not waterlogged and did not allow them to dry out. Any idea what I can do to get them to grow? I"m in North Texas and they were in full sun. Thank you.
Hello Melissa can you email us pictures
Danny
Info@welburngourdfarm.com
ALOHA Welburn Gourd Farm Family and Friends! ;-)
I wanted to know how much are the gourds to make ipus and ipu hekes? Also, could they be cleaned out before shipping? I'm disabled so I've only got so much time I can sit upright to carve and cleaning is very painful for me. Let me know the cost, yes? Mahalo nui loa for your beautiful farm. Dis old Aunty is looking forward to a long business friendship!
Hope you all have a wonderful day/evening. Take care, stay safe and don't forget to share you aloha spirit with others.
GOD BLESS,
- AuntyKeli ;-)
Since you are looking for Ipus, you would need to place a Custom Order. With a Custom Order, you can select gourds that meet your exact needs. There is more labor involved on Custom Orders, prices are a bit higher and there is a $200 minimum. The price of each gourd depends on the diameter you are looking for. The gourds can be cut and cleaned for you but the pricing would be higher for that as well. Do you know what size you are looking for? You can always contact our office at 760-728-4271, we will be happy to answer all or your questions.
Kindly,
Taylor
Very nice !-_•
Do you ship overseas?
Can you put water in those vases
We suggest sealing them with a 2 part epoxy clay before putting water in them. I will post a link below where you can find the epoxy we recommend.
www.amazon.com/Aves-Apoxie-Air-Clay-Professionals/dp/B000V54X0W/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1548449921&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=apoxie&psc=1
Tem condiçoes de mandár sementes pra eu ?
The seed of jewelery gourd can not grow a birdhouse gourd ?
No, those tiny gourds are likely Tennessee spinning gourds! They mature at a small size. Those seeds will produce tiny greet fruits that if left to mature and dry to brown on the vine, if the stem is very straight, you can flick them between your thumb and finger and make them spin like a top!! I have been obsessed with gourds of all types since I lived in Hawaii in 2000!
How do you get them to dry and not rot.?.
Store your gourds in a dry, well ventilatted area, away from moisture.
How do you clean inside I am from mexico
Use a spoon. Con una cuchara.
So many say to put bleach in your water. Why do you recommend only water?
Kabak istiyorum nasil alabilirim
Poderia colocar tradutor?
Gorud pls😊
Do you sell seeds?
Yes they do.
I am so delighted you decided to do these videos of your beautiful farm! I kept hoping to see a happy tail-wagging dog trotting alongside you, Phoebe! I have been a customer for, oh, at least 20 years I suspect and I dearly love all that you do for us gourd artists. If interested, you can check out my work at tamsenfox.com. On Oʻahu, I am the only gourd artist so itʻs really fun being the expert in my field of dreams here!! Mahalo from paradise...me ke Aloha, Tamsen
Y si quieres AliveN Thriven que me o
Be careful not to breath gourd dust or scrapings. Google it.
We always wear a mask to protect our lungs. We wear the Half-Size Respirator which can be purchased on our website as well. The Half-Size Respirator is the safest mask to wear when working on gourds. It is designed to fit the contours of your face, giving you a form fitting mask with extra comfort! It's small filter design allows you to have a wide field of vision and added protection while working on your gourd.
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A "quick start guide to gourds" would be kinds of gourds, not right into your product sales pitch. When I see the bait & switch, I'm off like a flash.
Yes I was pretty put-off by the misleading title and won't be clicking Like, but I watched some of the video, was a little interesting. I was expecting some info on growing gourds.
poor lack of information on prices on gords that are done by artiests ...gets a thumbs down..moving on to someone else