I bought these April 12th and got them on the 18th of 2023 for 5.99 plus 51 cents tax.Around the middle of May I soaked them in water to help soften the hard shells and then a few days later put them in potting soil. A few days later the first signs of sprouting happened. I got 9 out of the 10 I planted. I planted the seedling the last week of May and all of them survived except for one that was broken by watering or by an animal. So I ended with full size plants.The 2 photos are from June 23, 2023.Every day or 2 I go out and help the plant find its way up on to the trellis which is made with a 16 foot cattle panel spaced 4 or 5 feet apart and is held in the ground with 4 half t posts and wired on to them.We have added fertilizer twice to them so far and will be adding even more. The ground around it is all covered with weed barrier.I intend to update this and add more photos as the year progresses.July 16 was a really bad day as we got nearly 30 mins of shooter marble size hail and destroyed nearly everything we had. The luffa plant was destroyed so bad that it had maybe 10% of its leaves left.Today Is Aug 3rd and the new photo shows the recovery. It is massive and unsure really as to how many plants survived the hail.(started with 8) Time will tell if it bares fruit. We have been giving it a lot of water and fertilizing it quite a bit. We have about 2 months of warm weather left for the year and if any luck part of a 3rd. Lets hope that there is enough time to produce some fruit. If not we have plans to next year. Hail is bad.Its now Aug 24th and still have not seen a single fruit. The entire panel is so loaded and full so much that you can not even see inside the arch anymore as the vines have closed up each side. No photos today, Yet might try another day.I read that only 1 out of 10 flowers are female. I also read that they can be super hard to fruit. I have more than enough bugs, bees, ants and so on to flower this. My flower bed is full of flowers that feed a host of animals including my humming bird, humming bird moths, and a vast range of birds. There are massive amounts of bees, flies, ants and other critters.I read that trimming all of the suckers sticking out might promote flower growth so yesterday I went around and trimmed any vines that were on the ground, growing in to other plants, sticking out or anything. Lets see if that helps. It has been super hot 100 plus. I have made sure that they have more than enough water and fertilizer as well.""" Luffa will produce fruit 3 months after direct seeding, and 4 months after starting seeds inside. They are ready to harvest 6-7 months after seeding.Mar 3, 2022"""So according to this I should be getting fruit in 2 to 3 week which would be 4 months. I started the seedlings inside and planted the seedling outside which took a few days to turn from seedling to plant.If that is the case I would hope to see fruit here soon.I do wish Amazon allowed comments with in reviews if the person allows it. Would be helpful to have a comment or 2.

I had soooo many thriving luffa plants from these seeds! They grew slow at first but then they just took off! Beautiful plant that produces pretty luffas. I ended up giving them away as gifts this year for Christmas. Also, if you have too many that won’t ripen fully before your first frost, no problem! You don’t have to toss them out! Just harvest them right before your frost, put them in your oven to speed up the drying process and take them out, peel, soak in water bleach solution and hang to dry in the wind! That’s what I did. (Put a baking sheet under them in the oven to prevent a mess in your oven though!)

Planted 2 seeds only and both germinated. Already flowering and a little luffa growing! Vines are only about 6 feet long!Plan to both eat and use as luffa.

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I put double the seeds I hoped to grow in water to start the germination process because I wasn't sure how many would germinate, and they all did! I ended up with WAY more plants than I was planning on!

I bought two packages and one one seed worked.

Seeds look sizeable and healthy. Looking forward to planting.

I killed them all but they were what they were supposed to be lol.