Tutorials and Educational Materials

Good Information for Growing Gourds:   

• Growing & Harvesting Gourds
• Gourd Pests
• How to Build a Gourd Arbor

Any Gourd can be Transformed/Reshaped with Homemade Devices: 

• Growing a Gourd in a Flat Mold
• Making & Using a Homemade Mold to Reshape a Gourd
• Using Easy Constraints to Mold a Gourd
• How to Tie a Knot with a Gourd
• Etching Green Gourd & Dying with Coffee
• Manipulating a Snake Gourd
• Hawaiian Ni_ihau_Ipu Method
• Green Cleaning Gourds

Books:
The Immortal Molded Gourds of Mr. Zhang Cairi by Betty Finch and Guojun Zhang