I second that, you have to wait and see.

Hi,

I had a question from another member on how/where I got these Parwal plant...so here are the steps incase somebody else is interested in growing these.

I actually grew them from seeds. I have been trying to grow Parwal for the last few years, but was not successful till now. In fact I got about a hundred seeds from a Professor in Georgia who was doing some research on these, but none sprouted.

This year I tried something new and got almost 90% of the seeds to sprout. Here what I did

1) Go to an Indian store that sells vegetables, and pick parwals that are mature (2 or 4 are enough). Look for ones that look fully developed and have a little yellow color showing on the skin. These are easy to find.

2) Make sure the parwal are dry (usually they have these soaking in water), if not dry them out with a paper towel.

3) Place these in a bag of rice (not cooked rice:) ), and in the pantry or something for a few days.

4) Check every couple of days to make sure you do not have mold growing, you will actually see them changing to a full yellow/orange color very quickly.

5) The parwal will also start to dry out, and the skin will start to become dry like paper.

6) After a few days it will fully dry out, at this stage you can keep it out in the kitchen for a few days.

7) Tear open the Parwal and remove the seeds (seed will be black in color and quite large). Remove all the pulp sticking to the seeds with a paper towel.

8) Let the seed sit out in the kitchen to dry a couple of days.

9) Get the soil ready for planting (well drained soil).

10) Take a container (like a glass) and fill it with lukewarm water from the tap and soak the seeds for 24 hours.

11) Parwal seeds have a very hard coat so you will have to nick it before planting. I use a large nail cutter for this.

12) Take the seeds out of the water and dry them with a paper towel, and then using the nail cutter nick a small hole in the seed coat. Do not cut near the growing end, cut into the opposite side.

Here's how: Hold a seed between your thumb and forefinger. With the other hand, hold the clippers at an angle so that you use one end of the blade, then clip your seed. Your goal is to make a slice through the brown top coat of the seed, not to take a chunk out. Sometimes you can barely see the nick you made and sometimes a piece of the seed coat cracks off and you see the lighter colored inner seed. Both are correct!

13) Now soak the seeds again in some fresh lukewarm water for 24 hours.

14) Take the seeds out and plant in the soil at about .25 inch deep. Make sure you keep it in a safe place because rats and squirrels like to dig the seeds out and eat them.

15) Plants will sprout in about 10 days. Do not water too much, the plants are very hardy.

16) Plants will not fruit in the first year if grown from seed. There are male and female plants, and for the fruit to develop you need both.

17) Plants go dormant in winter, and you will have to bring it inside unless you live in Florida or above zone 8

Hope this helps..let me know if you have any questions.
xman

if you get flowers and flowers produce fruits..they are female plants like human being.

Just flowers only..male plant.

How you got this plant? from seed? most of the plants from seeds are male.

if you got from female plant...your plant will be female plant.
Universal truth..female only can reproduce. Males stand by and watch.

if female plant..please share with me.
i can send you 5ft cowpeas seed and elephant horn okra seeds.

ur007,

I am not sure if they are male or female. I will have to wait a couple of months till spring to find out.

xman

I have a question the technique you have mentioned above of getting vegetable from grocery store and keeping it in rice pack to ripe and save the seeds. Will this technique work for ivy gourd(teynli) and snake gourd?

harsha,

I have tried this technique for ivy gourd (tindora?) many, many times, and have never been successful to grow this from seed.

Will work with snake gourd if you are able to get a mature snake gourd from the store. Many times the gourds you buy are mature enough to just sprout if you plant the seeds, no special treatment needed. You can buy snake gourd online easily too.

regards,

xman

Ivy gourd when i see it online i am just not sure if the breed is going to be the same as the one we get Indian store and hence i thought about trying this technique. I had tried ripening it and put it in a bowl to dry but I forgot about it. The seeds where stuck to the bowl and i could not remove it without damaging it. I guess i would need to try it again as I dont know anyone in my area from whom i can get a cutting for ivy gourd.

Snake Guard may be next spring i will try using the seeds from the store brought veggie.

You will have to get Ivy gourd cuttings or roots from somebody on this forum, that is your best bet. I have had success with kantola, parwal, and others using the above technique, but always failed to sprout even a single ivy gourd. Maybe you will have better luck. Check the Indian stores in spring, a lot of them carry ivy gourd plants for sale, at least they do in TX.

I have not even seen curry plant in Kansas city Indian stores :(

I doubt it they would have ivy gourd plant.

So i tried growing tindora from store brought one. foudn tindora that was ripe so thought may be i can sprout the seeds. tried waiting for more than 60 days no luck.

Xman do you know anyone that i can get the cutting from? I will pay the postage price. I want to grow it this summer.

i am also interested to grow Larval plant if you know now that its growing good please let us know or share the plant with me if you have extra i will pay for it I'm in FL Thanks Vilas

Parval plant to grow not Larval sorry computer did spell check on me Vilas

HI xman, did your kantola plant bear any kantola? I've heard kantola can be grown via bulbs only.

Hi,I have Tindora plants for sale for $15 + shipping and handling.

Hi Xman do you take kantola plant in door in winter? I left my out in ground & they died. I am in TX too

I want to plant parwal. Can anybody supply me one male and a few female plants/cuttings please? I shall pay for the plants + shipping.

hi , i have parwal grown from seeds . they are now 2 to 3 years old but none of them has flowered. can anyone tell me how to get the plant to flower.

Kathy.V

I can provide as many cuttings from my plant ,but it is a female plant can any one spare a cutting from male plant. for exchange for female tindora, , bitter gourd seeds, or dosakai seeds.

Hi Kathy I have male plant no flowers, I can send you cutting from that, if you provide me your femail cuttings in exchange, let me know, I live in west palm beach FL where do you live

I definitely send you healthy mature stems as well as thin stems you can root. I live St.louis. provide me address to ship to. Great timing weather wise to start cuttings.

here is my niruvilas@rcn.com send me yours and I will send the address Thanks

I would like parval and kantola cuttings. Will pay thanks.i am in Tx.

parval cuttings yes, kantola grow from seeds, don't propagate from cuttings.

Hi kathyvakamudi, what happen I am waiting for your reply(email) so i can send the cuttings please let me know Thanks Vilas

Hi Kathy

Appreciate the tindora cuttings

I could share curry leaf seeds ( this is the indian plant)

my email is maharashtrian@yahoo.com

JAY

Appreciate padwal and krishna tulsi cuttings from someone, willing to send curry leaf plant seeds

thulasi plant will not grow from cuttings, only seeds, I have plenty just sprinkle the seeds on soil,then lightly sprinkle soil on top of the seeds so they don't get washed off, germinates in 3-4 days.

Thanks Kathy

DO u think u can share a few tindora cuttings

sure give me e mail and address

Hi Kathy

Can u ping me at maharashtrian@yahoo.com. I can mail the address

I can also share with u the plants I have

Appreciate it

Jay

Hi Junaid, I have tindora cuttings what plants you have ?

Hi Kathy,

I have a mature two year old male Parval plant which has been flowring very well in Dallas. I had a female plant which products two fruits and died. I am happy to share male cuttings and would appreciate female cutting. I also have Kantola male and female but they are dormant now. I can share the roots / tubers next year.

I would also like to know how everyone and you have been protecting the tubers / roots of Parval ? My parval came back on its own in Dallas and i had not protected it at all but i want to do something for Kantola plant.

Thanks

Jigar

Hi Jigar, I believe I have one Parval plant grown from seed from last 2 years , nice vine and get lots of white flys and i had to cut it but again it grows back no flowers, Kathy has Tindola not Parval I did sent her my Tindora plant to her, her was not giving her fruit, I f you can share with me Parval and Kantola I will send you Tindora Plant if you need, I am in Fl My name is Vilas Shah

Kathy,

Hi Jigar,i

I live in Midwest I take several cuttings slightly woody branches about 18 inches long and dig out the tubers and save the tubers in a pot full of soil , stick the cuttings in the same soil about 1/3 the length into the soil and leave it in my basement until spring. I did this 3 weeks ago and already see tiny new shoots, if they grow they will be weak and limpy, I pinch of the branches. it will not hurt the growth.

Kathy

Hi Jigar

read a few of the blogs and was wondering if I could get the cuttings for parval and kantola. A great deal of Friends in the SF Bay area would be very thankful to u if we can get a cutting and then we all share it from that. Also what would u appreciate in return plz let us know

sure but you have to wait till june /july to get good branches, well enough to give new roots and new shoots.

Hi Jigar

this is Vilas i also love to have some cuttings for Prval and Kantola if you can share , i live in west palmFL if you need something else from here I can always send it to you please let me know Thanks

Anybody have purple taro roots.?

Hi - can anyone spare tindora cuttings or tubers - Male & Female. I live in S.Florida - and have plants for curry leaves, startfruit and Indian Boarage/ Kalpuravalli to trade. Also have moringa tree cuttings

send me your address and Iwill share with you Tindora Vilas

Thanks -my address is 2705 Edegwwater Court Weston FL 33332

Forgot to mention - also looking for parwal cuttings. Please check above to see if any of my plants are of interest. Was wondering if parwal is as easy to grow as tindora - or are they both tricky because of the male female plants needed

Hi Niruvilas

Would it be possible to get the tindora cuttings

Would appreciate it a lot

Hi Radha Santhapuri and Niruvilas can you send some kantola and parval and tindora roots ,vilas i will pay for them and for shipping also. i live in nj have nice greenhouse in backyard. my email is Queen13@comcast.net

Can I get some male and female parwal cutting root please, I will pay the cost and shipping, thanks

I need parwal cutting male and female both and also kantola bulb. If anybody do please share. I will pay for cutting and bulbs + shipping as well.

I need Parval cuttings male and female both.I can share Spine gourd or Kantola seeds once I receive them.Or Ridge gourd/Bottle Gourd/Snake Gourd/Guar seeds .I will pay for Cutting+shipping as well.TIA

Hi
kathyvakamudi could you please send me a cutting of a male Tindora plant ? I have one and it produced lot of flowers and bud drop so assuming it is a Female plant ?

I can pay for shipping etc. My email is jvgarden68@gmail.com

I live in Northern California zone 9b so can start growing any time.

Thank you

Hello Xman.

My slef Naushad From mumbai india. I am doing farming in parwal in inda 20 Acer. So i want talk to you abojt the parwal. So please provide your number. My numbar is +917618610708

Thanks.

Regards.

Naushad Ansari.