Where does the climbing plant bottle gourd grow? Where is it best placed for good feng shui? How do you choose one?

Bottle gourd, a plant of the Cucurbitaceae family and the genus Lagenaria, is a climbing plant, an annual climbing herb, ranging in length from 10 cm to one meter, with the heaviest reaching up to one kilogram. So, where does the bottle gourd grow? Where is it best placed for good feng shui? How do you choose one?

1. Where does the bottle gourd grow?

The bottle gourd likes warm, sheltered environments, and growing it requires plenty of space. Seedlings are afraid of freezing. Fresh bottle gourds have tender green skin and white flesh, and the fruit is also called a bottle gourd; it can be harvested before it ripens and eaten as a vegetable. It is cultivated throughout China. It is also widely cultivated in tropical to temperate regions of the world.

2. Where is the bottle gourd best placed for good feng shui?

1. The bottle gourd is best hung on the window frame of a house, on the right side of the door frame, and it must be under the eaves, taking the meaning of “boundless fortune and prosperity” and “double circles.”

2. The bottle gourd can also be placed inside the house, but it must not be placed in the center of the house; the position should be off to the side, and even more so it should not face the door, taking the meaning of “guarding the house and keeping wealth, fortune and peace.”

3. Three bottle gourds can be placed at the head of the bed.

4. You can prepare two bottle gourds, one hung on the back of the door, and the other hung on the kitchen door or near the gas stove in the kitchen.

5. You can also find the direction of the “illness star” and place the bottle gourd in that direction.

3. How do you choose a bottle gourd?

1. The bottle gourd must be thoroughly dry, well shaped, and with a straight core.

2. The bottle gourd should feel heavy in the hand; the heavier the bottle gourd, the higher its density, so the bottle gourd's growing period should be long.

3. When you rub the bottle gourd in your hand, it should feel round, smooth and sleek.

4. The inner flesh should be spongy, with thickness, elastic like a sponge cushion; in the trade jargon: porcelain skin, spongy inside.

5. The skin color of the bottle gourd should be clean, with absolutely no flaws, as clean as water; in the trade jargon: a pool of water.

6. A bottle gourd with a ghastly pale skin color must never be taken, because the bottle gourd has certainly been soaked in a chemical solution.

7. Pick up the bottle gourd and smell the inner flesh and the outer skin with your nose; a bottle gourd that has not been tampered with should give off a rich, natural bottle gourd fragrance. If the inner flesh and outer skin of the bottle gourd have a pungent smell or no smell at all, this indicates that the bottle gourd itself has been tampered with, and you should firmly reject it.