I Spent A Year Growing A Natural Water Bottle - Full Tutorial

Join me as I spend a year growing and making a natural water bottle out of a bottle gourd that I grew from seed. These are also known as Calabash, birdhouse gourd and white flowered gourd. Offset your carbon footprint with me on Wren! - We’ll plant 10 extra trees for the first 100 people that sign up! That’s 1000 extra trees in the world if 100 of you decide to join by using my link - that would be pretty cool :) Bottle gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) can be eaten as a vegetable, much like zucchini / corgette, or left on the plant to mature and dry over several months into a hard, hollow, wooden-like shell. These are one of the worlds first known cultivated plants and have been used for thousands of years for many things, including utensils, containers, bottles, helmets, fishnet floats, and musical instruments. Many people like to make them into birdhouses too. The possibilities are endless and it just takes a bit of creativity to make your own plastic-free items and utensils which are fully biodegradable and fun to make. Today we’ll cover the growing requirements of bottle gourds, including seed sowing, soil / sun requirements, pollination, harvesting, plus a how to guide to make your own water bottle from a gourd. This includes cleaning, sanding, cutting and sealing the inside and outside, plus making a rope handle for your bottle. I’ll also be making a bird feeder, a hanging cactus pot, a bowl and a scoop. Buy me a coffee to help support my channel :) My YouTube Camera Gear: Camera: Camera Lens: Gimbal: Drone: Memory Cards: My YouTube Audio / Editing Gear: Wireless Microphone Setup: Lavalier Microphone: Curved screen for editing Portable SSD: VIDEO SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU: I Grew Fruit Trees From Store Bought Fruit and this is what happened The BEST Way To Grow Avocado From Seed: Growing Watermelons From Start To Finish Books I’ve enjoyed and found helpful: Grafting and Budding: A Practical Guide for Fruit and Nut Plants and Ornamentals The Food Forest Handbook: Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden ✅ Grow on YouTube with this tool - 🎵 Get Music to use on YouTube here - COME SAY HI Instagram - Facebook - SUBSCRIBE HERE! ;) Hey, my name is Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I’m interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants. I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow in my area. I’ll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you’ll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe! 0:00 Intro 0:29 Growing the bottle gourds 2:30 Drying the gourds 3:21 Interesting facts / history 4:01 Reducing your impact on the planet 5:51 Making the water bottle 9:27 Making other items with the gourds Disclaimer - Some of the links above may be affiliate links where I earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you - Thank you for your support! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. FTC DISCLAIMER: This video is sponsored by Wren Business inquires: thekiwigrower@