General information and discussion about cultivating eggplants/aubergines.
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May 9, 2008 | #1 |
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What varieties is everyone growing this year?
This will be my first year growing eggplants. I have seedling for the following:
Black Beauty Long Purple Dark Rosa Bianca Dean |
May 9, 2008 | #2 |
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Louisiana Long Green is back again this year. This is probably the variety I've repeated the most. Produces like crazy and has sweet, mild flavor. I also have Prosperosa. I should have grown White Beauty again. I really like that one. I tried Black Beauty my first year growing eggplant and Rosa Bianca my second year. Hope they do well for you, Dean. I think they're both good.
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May 11, 2008 | #3 |
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I am growing yaponskiy karlik (japanese dwarf) from Andrey, zolotoe yaitso (gold egg) also from Andrey, Black Beauty (they do great for me in my zone 8 desert garden), applegreen, and ping tung long. I have 4 plants of each in 15 gallon grow bags.
Here is a photo of yaponskiy karlik. I am real impressed with how the plant looks, extremely healthy looking.
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May 12, 2008 | #4 |
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I planted Pink Tunglong and Rosa Bianca. They never sprouted, or so I thought until I saw that my feline friend had chosen that spot in the garden for regular dust baths. So I went to the garden center and got a Black Beauty which is just starting to flower. Since then I also found a volunteer from last year - also a purple type - and planted Thai Green, which I am still waiting to see sprout. - dawn
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May 14, 2008 | #5 |
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How about, Rosa Bianca, Proposa, Nada, and Black Bell II.
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May 14, 2008 | #6 |
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this year i'm growing ukrainian beauty, diamond, ping tung long, and an unknown to me variety from iran. this is the 3rd try for ping tung long. first 2 attempts were unsuccessful. 3 strikes and you're out.
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May 15, 2008 | #7 |
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Michael - very good-looking and healthy plant. Yaponskiy Karlik is a Siberian CV despite Japanese part of its name and its very early and compact for eggplant. Zolotoe Yaitso (Golden Egg) has golden-yellow egg shaped fruits...
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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 |
May 15, 2008 | #8 |
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I'll be growing 2 Rosa Biancas only. I haven't found anything better.
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May 15, 2008 | #9 |
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I have a flower bud on my Yaponskiy Karlik-I think its going to be pretty early for me. I corrected the Russian spelling on my golden egg in the post above.
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May 25, 2008 | #10 |
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Here is my yaponskiy karlik today, 2 weeks photo from my earlier one. Has several flowers already. Nice and compact. Its 7 inches tall. Going to be my earliest eggplant this season.
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June 21, 2008 | #11 |
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June 22, 2008 | #12 |
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The good thing is, if you don't like Rosa Bianca, then you'll know you don't like eggplant! I'm trying 1 of the 2 in a pot this year to see if the warmer location will yield better.
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June 22, 2008 | #13 |
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I have a couple of Louisiana Long Green growing quickly. I should be able to start picking soon. I had heard that Prosperosa was not a really productive variety but I have a lot of fruit set on those plants. Looking forward to those, as well.
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This sounded like the best description for Rosa Bianca, from Fedco: Open-pollinated bicolor Italian heirloom. Vermont market grower Alan LePage calls it “the best eggplant in the universe,” with a creamy pudding-like consistency and delicate flavor. Gorgeous fruits, white with lavender streaking down the side, can command $3 per pound. Quite different from those familiar slender black types, Rosa is plump, about 3-4" across and 5" long, narrow at the top and widening with indentations almost in folds like draped fabric. Fruits average 2 lb, max out at 4 lb, making it LePage’s highest-yielding eggplant. Rosa needs to be coddled, particularly in the northern half of New England. Needs alternating temperatures to break dormancy: warm days (preferably 80s), cooler nights (around 70°). We recommend raised beds, row covers and plastic or IRT mulch. |
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June 23, 2008 | #15 |
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That's interesting, Mark. I grew RB a couple years ago, and had 2 really large eggplants and a couple small ones. Last year I didn't have seeds, and grew a black hybrid instead which yielded half as much. I thought it was just because of weather differences. So Mr. LePage may be right when it
comes to growing RB in the far north. It was a lot different farming in NJ, the eggplant capitol of the world. All white or white striped eggplant yielded less than half of black eggplant. I didn't know Rosa Bianca by name then, it was generically called Sicilian eggplant by the Italian farmers I bought my transplants from. But I really pushed it at my farm market because it tasted so much better, and 15 years ago I was selling as much white as black over a season, even though I charged 50% more. |
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