Ichiban eggplant buds!
 

I am totally bitten by the growing bug.
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Yay. How old are your plants?

Ichiban is a good one. Try it grilled or in green curry.

How exciting!!! You can also slice and stuff it in the middle before grilling, marinating, or broiling...it's amazing!

Have you grown eggplant before?

Basil,tomato and eggplant soup is one of our favorites. I also do a lower cal version of eggplant Parmesan,roasting the eggplant without batter instead of frying with batter or bread crumbs.

[QUOTE=Bodhi Peace;567620]Yay. How old are your plants?[/QUOTE]

Those were Bonnie sets I bought in early May. Hard to know when they were started, but I have had them transplanted in larger pots about 45-50 days. This is my first eggplant experience.

Mine are transplanted almost 45 days too! 3 plants have flowers, 2 don't have any flowers.
What is a Bonnie set?

A pre-sprouted plant ready for planting; my grandad called them sets - just stuck in my vocabulary.

Bonnie was the brand/company on the plant.

First fruit - fairly excited

You stinker! Now you're ahead of me. My fruits havent pushed out past the calyx even though I got flowers first! Too bad you didnt get the eggplant in focus.

Must be hot where you are. It's 84 deg F here which is really hot for here.

My biggest fruit is my Barbarella.

You have just Ichiban variety? You have one plant?

Tit for tat
 

I got some pics.

1 - Barbarella
2 - Rosa Bianca

Nice looking plants/fruit to be

I have 5 Bonnie Ichiban plants - all have flowered; fruits have emerged on 2 with another 5 or 6 fertilized flowers. About 20 additional buds in total.

I also have 3 Black Beauty plants from Burpee seed. They are about a week behind - buds on two of the plants and a flower has bloomed in the last - about 15 buds between the three plants.

And yes - plenty of heat here: 96 here today!

My eggplants would enjoy that temp, but I sure wouldn't!

Are you seeing any dropped buds or unfertilized flowers?
My 'fairy tale' drops buds like crazy. But it also produces them like mad...

I have not noticed any dropped buds - and a very healthy local bumble bee population fertilizes all of my plants, thankfully.

How are your fruits coming along?
My biggest is my barbarella. It has one about the size of a small beefsteak tomato.

I have harvested 2 Ichiban - about 7" each - and roasted them. They were so good!

I have 2 Black Beauty about to emerge from the calyx, and 6 Ichiban about to emerge from the calyx, too. Tons of buds on the Black Beauty and Ichiban plants - as long as I keep watering and harvesting regularly, I should have eggplants all summer.

I wish you had a pic of those 7-inchers! I believe you though. ;)

[QUOTE=Bodhi Peace;573980]I wish you had a pic of those 7-inchers! I believe you though. ;)[/QUOTE]

forgot I had taken pics of those

here are some plants
left-1 black beauty from seed - just budding; about to bloom

Serrano seedling

right - Ichiban from which I harvested one of the fruits above; already has another setting; the two to the right have bloomed and have set fruit

this is two black beauties on the left in a recycled bag - each have set a fruit and have a bunch of buds

a pink brandywine in the middle

Ichiban on the right - I harvested the largest fruit above from this plant; has fertilized blooms waiting to set fruit

I wish my leaves looked that green. Some of the bottom are yellow and some leaves curl up. I added fertilizers today and watered them in.

Espoma - Tomato Tone; plenty of water; and intense South Mississippi sun - it was 100 today with 70-80 percent humidity

everybody's skin is brown and hydrated - I love my state, but the citizens have been led astray by the monied gentry

anyway - we do grow some lovely produce

here is my first trio of black beauty eggplants and the largest of batch two of Ichiban

here is the Ichiban - my inability to name photo files on my phone makes for myltiple uploads for multiple pictures

independence day eggplants

are they knee-high?
(by the forth of july)

at least - my eggplants are looking great

(yeah that was a joke) (but if you could grow eggplant as tall as corn........)

my eggplants look "okay"
can't really go against the local climate...
here is the largest fruit on the Barbarella
if anyone has any suggestions on when to pick?

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