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Post by daylilydude on Sept 4, 2011 12:48:03 GMT -5
Mine just didn't do anything this year, it's like they were stunted, they stayed green, but that was it, never grew or flowered, what did I do wrong?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 4, 2011 19:02:23 GMT -5
It was probably the heat down in your area. Mine did OK, but did best when it got cooler, and, for some reason, the ones in the 5 gal. upside-down pots did absolute best! The dancer and neon did better than any of the others, and I think next year I'll just plant those. Still, the ones in the ground seemed to flower erratically. Now I am getting another flood of flowers, probably due to the rain, and milder weather.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 10:01:49 GMT -5
Mine have been surviving the heat. Since the rain came through last week-they are 100% better. Put a good dose of fertlizer to them, check their undersides for insects (I have had a terrible time with hornworms this year). I counted 12 bigger than my thumb yesterday on 2 plants.
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Post by izzy on Sept 7, 2011 0:28:52 GMT -5
All eggplants that were started this spring, for me, were slow to get going. It has taken all summer for them to get sized up large enough to produce fruits. Those that were planted last fall came back from the roots, after freezing down to the ground, and produced early in the spring before extreme heat and dry conditions shut them down. They do take a surprising amount of water.
What varieties are you growing? There are some that just do not do as well in the deep south: I've had poor results from the Italian types (Rosa Bianca types), and I think Neon, Fairytale, and others are more suited for northern latitudes. Best results have been large globes (black beauty, Florida-something, can't remember), and the Japanese, Ichiban types. Still waiting on Lousiana green to show me what it's made of. Dissapointed in Blush despite all the great reviews - a white with slight rosy blush down one side - tastless and small, but produced tons in mild weather.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 9:18:43 GMT -5
I planted Black Beauty this year. I prefer the larger fruited variety for frying and parmesean. I have grown Ichiban, which is very prolific and some of those little Jap. finger kinds, which I don't like at all. Not because of the flavor, but because they're so dang little! Those all do very well here in the deep south.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 5:41:06 GMT -5
Mine started out slow and did not do much other than grow. Now that the weather is cooling down I have a whole bunch of flowers and fruits. So I'm with the above comments on temperature. Tomatoes were really bad this year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 21:41:11 GMT -5
This will be my 1st year planting eggplants.When would be a good time to plant Black Beauties in north Ga.?
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 4, 2012 21:46:05 GMT -5
This will be my 1st year planting eggplants.When would be a good time to plant Black Beauties in north Ga.? I'm in N.E. Mississippi and I put my transplants in the ground in early June, if that helps any!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2012 11:17:18 GMT -5
I like Black Beauty also, grown it for some time, I have big pots I grow them in,never grown them in ground. This year I have some seeds for Galine which I'm going to try for a change,they say its high yielding, hope so as the family likes this vegetable
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2012 23:48:21 GMT -5
I only grow oriental types here and they love High Heat! One thing eggplants don't like is cold nights... If you get them outside too early when the night lows are still below 55 or so degrees they will shock and never fully recover to full size. Hold some back after you put out the tomatoes and peppers and put them out when the nights get warm and watch them grow. I've messed with the water for a few years and it seems they like more moisture while fruiting than I first thought ... I've made a crop with low water, but they really have suprised me with how much water they actually need. I don't get any measurable rain so can control totally with irrigation.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2012 9:50:07 GMT -5
Just a tad off the growing topic, but has any one grown Turkish orange eggplants? are they really sweet? been on a few seed sites and that's the description on their taste. Then other sites state they are bitter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 13:06:51 GMT -5
I grow mainly the Asian varieties, the Turkish variety from what I have read is bitter when ripe (orange) stage. Baker's Creek which is just up the road from me has them for sale, they have a variety that has black stems also most varieties that have small orange fruit are mostly ornamental as they become very bitter. George W.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 11:46:38 GMT -5
I grow mainly the Asian varieties, the Turkish variety from what I have read is bitter when ripe (orange) stage. Baker's Creek which is just up the road from me has them for sale, they have a variety that has black stems also most varieties that have small orange fruit are mostly ornamental as they become very bitter. George W. Thanks ,wont bother then.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 2, 2012 17:12:06 GMT -5
Since I had such good results with those UD buckets this last year, I started thinking about it, and I remembered having similar results with one 5 gal bucket right side up two years ago. So there is something about the buckets, and with peppers, I always thought they did better because the soil was warmer. Yet I thought the reason the EP weren't doing well in the garden was because of the heat! Anyway, the only problem I had with the 5 gal bucket was that it got blown over almost every day, which is why I tried the UD buckets the next season, and they did great. So I am going to grow 6 in the UD buckets - 2 neons, and one each of 4 others. Less tomatoes, but more space elsewhere.
Hari and Andaz are two new Indian EP I am trying this season.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 30, 2012 18:40:56 GMT -5
I do a lot better with mine in self-watering containers than in the ground. That may be due to moisture control issues, lower soil fertility, or nematodes in the ground. I really don't know. Either way, the SWCs work better for me. I use Earthboxes, but I'm sure any large SWC would work as well. Below are my current year's plants, both are Black Beauty. (I posted these same photos on another garden forum, so some of you have seen them before.) 3/21/12: Transplant planted 3/16, seed planted in "X" at right on same day: 4/28/12: Same two plants, with my youngest garden helper for scale: The big one has one fruit set on the back side, plus about 5 blooms open back there. It is loaded with bloom buds, so I'm hopeful of a good harvest!
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Post by stratcat on Apr 30, 2012 22:04:41 GMT -5
Looking good!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 1, 2012 6:43:28 GMT -5
Those of us in the north have to encourage the heat. I plant eggplant in black plastic containers to absorb the heat. I fertilize them weekly. Best growing types when I lived in Zone 4b/5a included Diamond (small eggplant originating in Czechoslovakia) and Ping Tung Long. Back in Z6a, I can grow the large bell varieties like Black Beauty IF they are started very early and babies along. Oh yeah, no early frosts either, like in midSeptember.
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Post by daylilydude on May 1, 2012 6:53:35 GMT -5
WOWZA..... mine never got that big even growing them in the ground! Looks like a shrub...
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2012 9:05:06 GMT -5
I agree about planting them in large pots. I have 2-one in a 45 gal. container and one in the ground. Both planted at same time. The one in the pot is about 2-2 1/2 ft. tall, and the one in the ground is barely a foot tall. I am sure fertilizer, water and amount of sun all have something to do with it, but I have found that almost everything I grow does better in the big containers.
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