How to Grow Eggplants – The Complete Guide To Growing Eggplants

After approximately eight weeks, your seedlings will be ready for transplanting. You have two options: either transplant them directly into your garden or transfer them to smaller pots. If you choose the latter, prepare a mixture of vermiculite, peat moss, and either compost or worm castings. This blend creates a porous medium that will support your young plants for a few weeks.

Caring for Eggplants

As your eggplants continue to grow, it’s crucial to provide proper care. This includes regular applications of liquid fertilizers and consistent watering.

Around ten weeks post-germination, you can move your eggplants to larger containers. Containers approximately 16 inches wide and high work well for optimal production.

To promote better air circulation and access to sunlight, remember to prune out any yellowing leaves at the bottom of the plants.

Eggplants thrive in full sun and require around 6-8 hours of sunlight daily. It’s important to keep the soil consistently moist, so be sure to water them once a day or even twice on hot, sunny days.

Due to the potential scarcity of natural pollinators like bees, you might consider hand pollination. Utilize an electric toothbrush to gently touch the flowers, helping to disperse pollen around the stigma.

Harvesting

Expect your first harvest after about 21 weeks. For the best flavor and texture, harvest your eggplants when they are tender and young.

Adapt your fertilization routine as your eggplants grow. Begin with high-nitrogen fertilizers during their early stages, continuing until they reach the flowering stage. Afterward, switch to a vegetable fertilizer rich in phosphorus to encourage flowering and fruiting.

Eggplants particularly benefit from Epsom salt. Mix a tablespoon with water and feed it to your plants every 3-4 weeks. Epsom salt provides essential magnesium and sulfur, which are crucial for their growth.

Sequence from	Sequence to	Description
00:00	01:04	Sow the seeds 8 weeks before planting it out once sowed the seed needs warm temperatures to germinate. Grow light is an effective way of starting your seeds indoors and mostly used during cold seasons.
01:05	02:34	After about 8 weeks you will have a plant ready for transplanting which you can either transplant directly or to smaller pots first. For these pots, you can make a mixture of vermiculite, peat moss, and compost/ worm castings this makes a very porous mix that will sustain the plant for a couple of weeks.
02:35	04:00	While these plants are growing you need to provide good liquid fertilizers and water. About 10 weeks later you can transfer to a larger container preferably 16 inches wide and high for good production.
04:01	05:20	14-20 weeks later you can prune out any brown or yellow leaves at the bottom of the plant to allow air to the plant and have more accessibility to the eggplant fruit. Eggplants need to be planted in full sun, they need about 6-8 hours of sunlight in a day and you need to water them once a day or even twice during hot sunny days
05:21	06:29	Bees are a natural pollinator of eggplants but since its population is reduced because of the rampant use of pesticides hence you can use hand pollination by using an electric toothbrush gently touching the flower to dispose the pollen around the stigma. 21 weeks later you have your first harvest.
06:30	08:00	The key is to harvest your eggplant when they are tender and young. Use high nitrogen fertilizers when they are starting out up to the flowering stage then start feeding them with vegetable fertilizer which is rich in phosphorus and good for better flowering and fruiting.
08:01	09:31	As time progresses the number of eggplants increases also to note is that the more soil you have available for the plant the larger the plant and the bigger the harvest. Eggplants love Epsom salt-mix a tablespoon with water and feed it to your plant every 3-4 weeks this has a tremendous effect because they have high magnesium and sulphur requirements.
09:32	11:01	In the sixth month after the first harvest, the number of eggplants will have greatly reduced and it is mostly the last harvest. Use organic pesticides such as neem oil, vegetable /canola sprays, and soap sprays, spray late in the day when the bees are inactive.

Sequence from

Sequence to

Description

00:00

01:04

Sow the seeds 8 weeks before planting it out once sowed the seed needs warm temperatures to germinate. Grow light is an effective way of starting your seeds indoors and mostly used during cold seasons.

01:05

02:34

After about 8 weeks you will have a plant ready for transplanting which you can either transplant directly or to smaller pots first. For these pots, you can make a mixture of vermiculite, peat moss, and compost/ worm castings this makes a very porous mix that will sustain the plant for a couple of weeks.

02:35

04:00

While these plants are growing you need to provide good liquid fertilizers and water. About 10 weeks later you can transfer to a larger container preferably 16 inches wide and high for good production.

04:01

05:20

14-20 weeks later you can prune out any brown or yellow leaves at the bottom of the plant to allow air to the plant and have more accessibility to the eggplant fruit. Eggplants need to be planted in full sun, they need about 6-8 hours of sunlight in a day and you need to water them once a day or even twice during hot sunny days

05:21

06:29

Bees are a natural pollinator of eggplants but since its population is reduced because of the rampant use of pesticides hence you can use hand pollination by using an electric toothbrush gently touching the flower to dispose the pollen around the stigma. 21 weeks later you have your first harvest.

06:30

08:00

The key is to harvest your eggplant when they are tender and young. Use high nitrogen fertilizers when they are starting out up to the flowering stage then start feeding them with vegetable fertilizer which is rich in phosphorus and good for better flowering and fruiting.

08:01

09:31

As time progresses the number of eggplants increases also to note is that the more soil you have available for the plant the larger the plant and the bigger the harvest. Eggplants love Epsom salt-mix a tablespoon with water and feed it to your plant every 3-4 weeks this has a tremendous effect because they have high magnesium and sulphur requirements.

09:32

11:01

In the sixth month after the first harvest, the number of eggplants will have greatly reduced and it is mostly the last harvest. Use organic pesticides such as neem oil, vegetable /canola sprays, and soap sprays, spray late in the day when the bees are inactive.

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