Oriental Extra Long Loofah Seeds

We love this loofah, we grow them for cleaning sponges and healthy dog chew toys and for soap crafting and even for lining baskets. The plant showed in the photo produced over 30 fruits before an early season freeze stopped it, and it was full of blooms when the freeze started. Some of them where 3 feet long. The large bulb ends of these make very soft loofahs compared to common loofahs.
Young fruits are eaten, fruit left to mature on the vine can be used for luffa sponges. This unique hybrid luffa produces extra long fruits, 33 inches long and 2-3 inches wide in size on average and over a pound in weight. Plants are very vigorous and strongly resistant to heat,cold, rain and wind. This variety is very productive, yielding high quality fruits which are good for long distance shipping and marketing. One of the most popular varieties in the Orient.