Aswad x 2
Matrosik
Beatrice
Rosa Bianca
Nadia

Wow! And when will you plant them out down there?

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:05 pm Wow! And when will you plant them out down there?

Probably around the last week of February or 1st of March

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:05 pm Wow! And when will you plant them out down there?

I could have waited a bit, but the weather is so warm this week it will be easier to get them germinating outside than hoping the house gets warm enough.

All are up except Matrosik. I’d be okay if it didn’t germinate.

I've had newly purchased black beauty seeds on a heat mat with a humidity dome for 2 weeks and there are no signs of life. They're in edge cells so maybe I'll try a center cell.

Matrosik finally came up, many days after the others. I transplanted one plant each of the other eggplants listed in the OP today. Matrosik will need another week or two. No problem, eggplant season is very long here.

My eggplants grew so fast the last few years, that I planted them a little later last year, and I'll do it 2 days even later, on 4-2, so they won't get ready too soon! I have 5 varieties - 2 repeats, with the Ichiban (growing since the 80s, before I was starting seeds!), and the Matrosik, which was a keeper from last year. The new ones are a Poamoho dark long, and a long green, from the U of HI. I'm hoping that long green is the same as one I had many years ago, a long green variety from seedsofindia.com that was the most heat resistant eggplant I ever grew, but one year, they changed it, which I knew because it flowered later, and the flowers were no longer white, and it just wasn't the same. And no green ones I tried since, were the same, but I keep trying! And one that I doubt anyone else here will be growing - the Dark Pea Eggplant. I grew a pea eggplant several years ago, which grew into a tree! It is also known as the bitter eggplant, and is used in small amounts in Thai curries, much like bitter melons are used in some Indian dishes. I still have some in the freezer, in vacuum sealed bags, in amounts of 20. This pea eggplant says that it grows to 4 or 5 feet - much smaller than the one I grew, which looks better; hopefully it will taste about the same.

Nadia, Beatrice and Aswad all blooming now. Rosa Bianca isn’t quite there yet.