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Old August 7, 2007   #1
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What causes a purple eggplant to be golden or yellow? They taste fine and are good size. They just aren't purple. Oddly both purple and golden\yellow fruits can be on the same plant.
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Old August 7, 2007   #2
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Yellow is the ripe color of all eggplant - so they are likely the most mature (really, overmature...perfect for saving seed, typically bitter and not good eating). So, white, green, purple striped, black eggplant all wind up yellow.
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Old August 12, 2007   #3
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I have no idea about warmer zones but here I have never seen a yellow or golden eggplant fruit in a ripe/mature/overmature stage. All fruits became deep brown and never yellow. We harvest last fruits in the late September usually in our greenhouses...
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Old December 11, 2007   #4
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This was the first year thatb we grew Paklajan as they are called in BG. They were purple striped, then as the season advanced turned yellow. I will try to put up a picture.
They were firm and still good eating. In September there was another surge of fruit and the purple striped ones came again.
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Old February 1, 2008   #5
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Thought that I had lost the pics of the eggplant!
This is how our purple striped plants looked late in the season:
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Where's the thread on the Islander Pepper de-hybridising effort?
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Old February 2, 2008   #7
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It's here Pepper project 2007 - #2 Cosmic, in the Pepper forum.
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minor question, what does bandicooting mean? I couldn't figure it out. When we go cooting were hunting ducks... Lol.. (coots) small black ducks.8)
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