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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Bigbadfrankie on April 30, 2007, 21:23

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Bigbadfrankie on April 30, 2007, 21:23

How many are growing these :) things. And what do you know about them :?:

Title: Aubergine
Post by: andygh on April 30, 2007, 21:31

I'm growing a few in the polytunnel, I just bung 'em in with the tomatoes & let 'em get on with it. This year I'm trying "Thai Long" & some from a packet that just says "mixed"

Title: Aubergine
Post by: shaun on April 30, 2007, 21:33

ive got a few on the go 1st time and they are so slow,they have germinated with 2 leaves that was a few weeks ago .i think they are dormant  :?

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Bigbadfrankie on April 30, 2007, 21:41

like andy I have put them in the g/house with the toms, peppers and cucumbers. Same as last year. They love loads of water & feed. Mine are about 6" tall and now they are in the ground they seem to be growing faster.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: shaun on April 30, 2007, 21:43

think i will pot them on this week then, there still in there tray

Title: Aubergine
Post by: richyrich7 on April 30, 2007, 22:14

So how many fruit do you get off one plant then, I grew them last year for the first time and got 1 from 2 plants  :lol:

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Growbag on April 30, 2007, 22:26

I'm growing aubergines for the first time this year.  The variety is Mohican which are supposed to produce an abundance of small white fruits (although I have no idea how small is small).   I have two plants in small tubs in the greenhouse which are about 10 in high at the moment and nice and bushy looking.   But it's all a bit of an experiment.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: shaun on April 30, 2007, 22:30

Quote from: "richyrich7"

So how many fruit do you get off one plant then, I grew them last year for the first time and got 1 from 2 plants  :lol:

the ones i'm growing are T&M black enorma and it says restrict the plant to 5 fruits per plant if you want large fruits,
got some seeds left if you want a bash

Title: Aubergine
Post by: crowndale on May 01, 2007, 07:57

Quote from: "richyrich7"

So how many fruit do you get off one plant then, I grew them last year for the first time and got 1 from 2 plants  :lol:

You got one more than I did from 4 plants richy!  I think though that planting outside in east yorks is probably not the best environment for them!  I am going to clean and repair the grotty greenhouse I inherited with the house soon and then next year try some in there.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Biscombe on May 01, 2007, 08:52

I grew 5 black beauty aubergine last year and now im adicted! this one is a really heavy cropper! this year I'm growing apple green, rosa blanca, long purple, black beauty (of course!) striped from Gandia and I white one I cant remember the name of.........

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Annie on May 01, 2007, 09:55

I grew 4 plants last year 2 black beauty and 2 money maker and had more aubergines than I knew what to do with.This year I`m growing black beauty and calliope.I started them in feb.with the peppers and grow them at the back of the greenhouse away from any cold air from the door.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: GrannieAnnie on May 01, 2007, 15:28

I grew about 9 plants for the first time last year and got loads about 6-10 off each plant, but none of my seeds have done anything this year after 2 tries at sowing

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Annie on May 01, 2007, 21:37

I had problems last year so only 4 plants,2 bought as seedlings from a garden centre ,reluctantly but a good investment in the end.I`ve done well with peppers and aubergines this year but have had a lot of other germination failures this year.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: GrannieAnnie on May 01, 2007, 22:03

Isn't nature strange??????

Title: Aubergine
Post by: Annie on May 01, 2007, 22:13

I got heated propogaters to sort the cold weather probs of last year out and I also moved all seed storage to a nice cool place(after years of forgetting and leaving them in the greenhouse cooking nicley)and am rewarded with good germination from abused seeds and crumby germination from mainly new seeds.Dug up sweetpeas today from roottrainers after only 6 grew and all but 3 others had gone mouldy or disappeared.

Title: Aubergine
Post by: ytyynycefn on May 02, 2007, 13:53

I'm growing Bonica F1 - sowed in an unheated GH in Feb, and potted on from the tray this week - they're only a couple of inches high, with a few holes in the leaves  :?

They'll go in the ground in the GH when they're a bit bigger (ie when I've dug out a border for them!).  The blurb says to restrict to 5-6 fruits per plant.