The vine won't be smaller. I've had egg gourd vines travel 30 feet, and only stopped then because they hit a fence.

Casey

Thanks Casey. Any idea how big the vines get on ornamental gourds? :)

Unfortunately I only grow hardshell gourds, not ornamentals. But a gourd is a tenacious thing, they reach for the sky and try to take over the world in the short time they're with us. My favorite picture from this forum is one of a gourd plant that had totally covered a telephone pole and was growing gourds all up and down the thing. It was an amazing thing to see, and I kept wondering. how the heck do you harvest the ones that are all the way up the pole, call the power company and let them do it? :)