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Portrait Gourds Grown in Molds

Step 6Nature Takes its Course

Nature Takes its Course
If you harvest a gourd when it has reached the size you want, it will be soft and won't keep well.
You must wait until the season has finished and the vine starts to die. When there are six inches of brown dry stem above the gourd, you can harvest it.

This picture shows approximately how the gourd sculpture looked in the mold. It was a much lighter color at actual time of harvest.
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Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...
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