Purple is yellow

hald · August 7, 2007

What causes a purple eggplant to be golden or yellow? They taste fine and are good size. They just aren't purple. Oddly both purple and golden\yellow fruits can be on the same plant.
-Hal

**nctomatoman** · August 7, 2007

Yellow is the ripe color of all eggplant - so they are likely the most mature (really, overmature...perfect for saving seed, typically bitter and not good eating). So, white, green, purple striped, black eggplant all wind up yellow.

Andrey_BY · August 12, 2007

I have no idea about warmer zones but here I have never seen a yellow or golden eggplant fruit in a ripe/mature/overmature stage. All fruits became deep brown and never yellow. We harvest last fruits in the late September usually in our greenhouses...

phreddy · December 11, 2007

This was the first year thatb we grew Paklajan as they are called in BG. They were purple striped, then as the season advanced turned yellow. I will try to put up a picture.
They were firm and still good eating. In September there was another surge of fruit and the purple striped ones came again.

phreddy · February 1, 2008

Thought that I had lost the pics of the eggplant!
This is how our purple striped plants looked late in the season:

cosmicgardener · February 1, 2008

Where's the thread on the Islander Pepper de-hybridising effort?
Cosmic

Raymondo · February 2, 2008

It's here Pepper project 2007 - #2 Cosmic, in the Pepper forum.

tuk50 · February 22, 2008

minor question, what does bandicooting mean? I couldn't figure it out. When we go cooting were hunting ducks... Lol.. (coots) small black ducks.8)

August 7, 2007	#1
hald Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 23	Purple is yellow What causes a purple eggplant to be golden or yellow? They taste fine and are good size. They just aren't purple. Oddly both purple and golden\yellow fruits can be on the same plant. -Hal

August 12, 2007	#3
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	I have no idea about warmer zones but here I have never seen a yellow or golden eggplant fruit in a ripe/mature/overmature stage. All fruits became deep brown and never yellow. We harvest last fruits in the late September usually in our greenhouses... __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR

February 1, 2008	#6
cosmicgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tasmania, Australia Posts: 407	Where's the thread on the Islander Pepper de-hybridising effort? Cosmic __________________ http://cosmicgardening.blogspot.com Last edited by cosmicgardener; February 6, 2008 at 10:12 PM.

February 2, 2008	#7
Raymondo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Saumarez Ponds, NSW, Australia Posts: 946	It's here Pepper project 2007 - #2 Cosmic, in the Pepper forum. __________________ Ray

August 7, 2007	#2
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	Yellow is the ripe color of all eggplant - so they are likely the most mature (really, overmature...perfect for saving seed, typically bitter and not good eating). So, white, green, purple striped, black eggplant all wind up yellow. __________________ Craig

December 11, 2007	#4
phreddy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 260	This was the first year thatb we grew Paklajan as they are called in BG. They were purple striped, then as the season advanced turned yellow. I will try to put up a picture. They were firm and still good eating. In September there was another surge of fruit and the purple striped ones came again.

February 22, 2008	#8
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	minor question, what does bandicooting mean? I couldn't figure it out. When we go cooting were hunting ducks... Lol.. (coots) small black ducks.8)