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Most of the seeds I started a couple weeks ago have sprouted and gotten going. It looks like I will need to pick up one black beauty eggplant, one butternut squash, and one basil plant. And maybe oregano …
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Black Beauty Eggplant
No scientific name recorded
A variety of eggplant
How to sow black beauty eggplant: Start indoors in a warm, well-lighted area 8-10 weeks before last frost. Sow seeds in a seed starting formula in individual containers. Sow 1cm deep, firm lightly and keep evenly moist. Seedlings emerge 10-21 days.
Sun requirement for black beauty eggplant: Plant in Full Sun
Rich, deep purplish black fruits can grow to enormous size. Tender & tasty at all stages.
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Black beauty eggplant facts
Lifespan
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or less
Height × spread
30cm × 61cmRow Spacing
61cmGrowing Degree Days
74
Optimal temperature
20–35 °C
Absolute temperature
9–40 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall
1200–1600 mm/year
Absolute rainfall
800–4000 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH
5.5–6.8
Absolute soil pH
4.3–8.5
FAO EcoCrop
Crop cycle
70–120 days
FAO EcoCrop
Max altitude
50 m
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal light
very bright
FAO EcoCrop
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
Black beauty eggplant needs about 74 growing degree days.
For black beauty eggplant, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 9°C and a shortest growing cycle of 70 days at its best temperature, about 1295 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your black beauty eggplant will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing black beauty eggplants
- Sow seeds indoors 8 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Stake the plants 3 weeks after planting out
- Water deeply at planting out every week
- Mulch around the plants 2 weeks after planting out
- Feed with liquid fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every month
- Pick fruit regularly at first harvest every week
- Pull out finished plants 6 weeks after first harvest
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 70 to 120 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Solanum melongena L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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