Ukraine?

jgaleota · July 20, 2011

I am growing this for the first time and it looks like a blockbuster of an eggplant. Since day one it has out-performed all others----plant is twice the size of all others, first to flower (WAY ahead of others), first to fruit etc. It is advertised as a large purple--looks rather like Black Beauty.

Has anyone else grown it? I haven't harvested the first eggplant so don't know about taste.

Keiththibodeaux · July 20, 2011

It might be Чорний краси.

jgaleota · July 21, 2011

Google translate calls this "Black Beauty". Did you know this? Is this maybe the same plant?

pinakbet · July 25, 2011

got pics of the fruit itself?

Andrey_BY · July 25, 2011

Looks like a Black Beauty indeed because it's common to use foreign translated variety names here in CIS and in Ukraine as well. Black Beauty or Chyornyi Krasavets or in Ukrainian as you mentioned.

jgaleota · August 2, 2011

Sorry for the late to answer----just got back from the Rockies. I ate the first one without photographing it. In fact, contrary to the picture in the catalog, the fruit is 1/2 the size of Black Beauty and rather round. So far, that is the only fruit I have so I don't know if it is just because the first fruit is smaller than subsequent ones will be........??

July 20, 2011	#1
jgaleota Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 133	Ukraine? I am growing this for the first time and it looks like a blockbuster of an eggplant. Since day one it has out-performed all others----plant is twice the size of all others, first to flower (WAY ahead of others), first to fruit etc. It is advertised as a large purple--looks rather like Black Beauty. Has anyone else grown it? I haven't harvested the first eggplant so don't know about taste.

July 25, 2011	#5
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Looks like a Black Beauty indeed because it's common to use foreign translated variety names here in CIS and in Ukraine as well. Black Beauty or Chyornyi Krasavets or in Ukrainian as you mentioned. __________________ 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

July 20, 2011	#2
Keiththibodeaux Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Louisiana Posts: 587	It might be Чорний краси.

July 21, 2011	#3
jgaleota Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 133	Google translate calls this "Black Beauty". Did you know this? Is this maybe the same plant?

July 25, 2011	#4
pinakbet Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Pearl of the Orient Posts: 333	got pics of the fruit itself?

August 2, 2011	#6
jgaleota Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 133	Sorry for the late to answer----just got back from the Rockies. I ate the first one without photographing it. In fact, contrary to the picture in the catalog, the fruit is 1/2 the size of Black Beauty and rather round. So far, that is the only fruit I have so I don't know if it is just because the first fruit is smaller than subsequent ones will be........??