How are your plants doing? By now your gourds should be about 6 to 12 inches tall. It should have some nice big leaves. Soon it will start to grow into a vine. It will produce some long skinny stringy tentacles that it uses to latch onto things so that it can stabilize itself. Within the next month it should also start producing white flowers. Some are male flowers and some are female. If the female gets pollinated by the male, then the female will start to grow a gourd.
The Flame Acanthus should be about 6 to 10 inches by now. It should have long skinny leaves that are pointed at the tips. It may begin to bloom in about 6 weeks or so. It is a perennial which means it will come back again next year. Annuals die at the end of the year and rely on the seeds they drop to come back the next year.
Good luck with the plants!
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