How To Grow Eggplants green

In today's is page growing eggplant green , we will see How to grow the Green Eggplant The Green Eggplant is a crunchier and creamier version of the regular eggplant And is known by different names as shown here So we've planted some of these Green Eggplants on the ground on the raised beds  With some supports And we also have some growing in a container Now there are two types of containers we used This one is a 16 inch wide 16 inch high container  With some regular potting mix This is a whi sky barrel container which can hold at least2 plants, maybe 3So for this whiskey barrel container we created our own potting mix Using the proportions as shown on the screen And this creates a low cost potting mix that is really good and very effective for your plants And you can do it for a very low price So these seedlings had been growing in the greenhouse For about 4 weeks  Before I transplanted them Now tomatoes and eggplants are very easy to transplant Unlike other plants like beans which hate transplanting And must be sown directly Tomatoes and Eggplants can be started indoors much ahead of their growing season And as you can see here we've added this so a ker hose drip irrigation line That should keep the plant evenly watered throughout the growing season So within a few days you can see the plants have really taken off and growing really well And this one is the one that is growing on the ground Now about a month after transplanting the plant, it should have grown pretty tall At least about a foot or so And it now looks pretty healthy The one in the container has taken off even better Growing much better, creating very healthy leaves And I did support these eggplants using this trellis And if you want to know more about the trellis, you can watch the video on your screen Now once the flowers appear, you can hand-pollinate these manually With your own hands. . . Just like that But I've seen that this eggplant variety is very good in pollinating. . . itself!And as we see this eggplant has grown pretty well Pretty big for harvest So let's go ahead and harvest this eggplant So that eggplant looks pretty good, as you can see It has a lot of thorns - the whole plant itself has a lot of thorns But if you look at this eggplant, its pretty nice No signs of any insects or diseases The thorns also do a great job of keeping the loopers away,the soft bodied insects away And you can see one more eggplant right here The green eggplant is really good looking With the green and white distinctive look So let's go ahead and harvest this other eggplant And another one Just look at the number of thorns on that eggplant Its quite a lot So I now have a couple of eggplants here that we harvested And what I wanted to show you was how they look like from the inside I know a lot of you have asked this question about "How do these vegetables look like from the inside?"So let's go ahead and cut it open And this is also a good time to give you a tip about when to harvest eggplants First let's cut this eggplant open and let me show you how the seeds in the eggplant look like So if you can see these are white seeds - they haven't turned black yet Now when the eggplant seeds turn black, that means you've waited too long to harvest the egg plant You have to harvest it before that This is a perfect eggplant The flesh of the eggplant looks  pretty good The seeds are white, its perfect!And this eggplant will keep producing eggplants Its now end of October here in California and my green Eggplants are still producing a lot of eggplants So out of all the other varieties of eggplants that are growing, the green eggplant is producing the biggest eggplants Although the temperatures are quite low here in Southern California So I hope you liked this video If you did not know about growing green eggplants I'm hoping this video helped you I'm sure this will be a great addition to the varieties of eggplants you're growing The green eggplant has a nice crunchy skin And also a very creamy flavor So I'm sure you'll enjoy growing and eating itI'll see you again soon Happy Gardening!