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Want Them All
10-08-2009, 11:27 PM
I planted an eggplant a few months back just for fun. Now it has a bunch of "fruits", some are dark purple, which I'm accustomed to seeing and eating. The rest of the fruits are yellow-orangish. Is there such a thing as a hybrid or cocktail eggplant plant? Maybe I missed the development of the purple fruits, but I don't recall them being yellow-orangish before becoming purple.
Richard
10-08-2009, 11:29 PM
I planted an eggplant a few months back just for fun. Now it has a bunch of "fruits", some are dark purple, which I'm accustomed to seeing and eating. The rest of the fruits are yellow-orangish. Is there such a thing as a hybrid or cocktail eggplant plant? Maybe I missed the development of the purple fruits, but I don't recall them being yellow-orangish before becoming purple.
Picture please.
I have purple, green and white eggplant--I have never seen any that are yellow-orange except for some that are beginning to rot on the plant--especially in wet rainy weather. The green ones do turn yellow when they are over ripe and about to drop off.
Want Them All
10-09-2009, 09:58 AM
Here they are. Let me know what you think.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24601&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24601&ppuser=5976)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24600&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24600&ppuser=5976)
Richard
10-09-2009, 11:02 AM
Your night-time temperatures now are probably like mine in November. By November around here, any eggplants that have not ripened will instead turn that color. I have left them on the plant in years past -- they are rock hard by February. I threw them in the mulch pile and unlike hardened-off tomatoes, they did not sprout.
The one on the bush is over-ripe--it should be picked while the purple color is shiny or as soon as it starts to turn flat or satin.
sandy0225
10-11-2009, 04:16 PM
it's weather related. My black beauty eggplants are doing that too. The plants just aren't happy at all...it will happen even if they're not over ripe. I pick mine three times a week and sure don't miss that many that would be turning color like that this time of the year. I only have out 48 plants this year, so I'm putting out more this next spring.
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