{"id":4715,"date":"2025-03-16T19:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:54:43","slug":"momordica-charantia-plant-growing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/momordica-charantia-plant-growing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Momordica charantia plant growing well"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RWGalX870sI?si=zqoLYx5CuLmFyw8h\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had posted about this Momordica charantia plant, better known as bitter gourd, a few days back. Here is an update. The plant is growing well and has started climbing up the support fixed in the garden pot for it. That will lead the plant to the compound wall on which I expect it to spread further. Ideally it needs to grow on an elevated platform made of crisscross pieces of wood. But here I do not have space to provide such a platform, typical constraints of a city home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had posted about this Momordica charantia plant, better known as bitter gourd, a few days back. Here is an update. The plant is growing well and has started climbing up the support fixed in the garden pot for it. 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