Fairy Tale Eggplant 9/24/21 to 12/23/22 (461 Days)

I grew those in 5-gallon buckets. Huge leaves. Good luck, I love 'em deep fried.

Your photos are the proof, mike. (Beautiful!) I'm going to leave my eggplants in the Farm 12 XL for a little while longer, to see what happens. In a few days it will be time to add nutrients, and I'm going to look at the roots then.

This is from the AG blog:

"Something to remember about the Fairy Tale Eggplant is that much of the care is identical to any other flowering fruit or vegetable you may grow in an AeroGarden. It's important to give your plants room to grow, so we recommend putting no more than 3 seed pods into your tall garden (Bounty, Farm Plus or Farm XL) and covering the remaining holes with spacers."

Won't be the first time that AG has recommended planting more pods than an AG can hold and produce healthy plants. The AG eggplant kits come with 3 pods and spacers.

Looking at my plants, I'm really wondering about growing even ONE Fairy Tale eggplant in a Bounty.

You could produce a coffee-table book with your photos, mike ! I hope that I'll get at least a few blooms like yours.

Today I decided to take mike 's advice, and thin the Fairy Tale eggplants before they got any bigger. This is Day 36 for the eggplants. The roots looked very healthy, and so I only trimmed the roots enough to separate the plants.





Two plants got to stay in their original positions, but I turned them a little to direct the roots away from the pump and the float. One plant had already grabbed the pump filter.



One plant went into a corner of the empty side of the Farm Plus 24. It will have to share the light with the bell pepper (leaf at right) next door.



I transplanted the plant with the largest leaves into soil outdoors. It's in my largest empty pot, in Miracle Gro potting soil. I don't know whether it will survive, because the nights are getting cold (40-50 degrees). It rarely freezes where I am, but it's mid-October.  I could move it to the garage at night, but that's too much trouble.



Now it's a matter of "wait and see".

They look great. I think you'll have fun with these.

The Fairy Tale eggplants are all doing well. The one transplanted to soil seems the happiest of all. It's doing fine in today's windy rainstorm, too. The photo shows the eggplant on 10/21 and 10/23. The leaves straightened right up.  The crack in the big lower leaf occurred during the transplanting.

Yours had lots of blooms, Sher. So far no blooms, just leaves.

To my surprise, the eggplant that went into planting mix outdoors seems happiest of all. The only thing I did was make sure that the soil was fully saturated (and it rained 4" on Sunday). I always water the heck out of transplants for the first few days. I figure that if they've been growing in water, they won't mind having wet roots. 😄

I just remembered something, though. The potting soil has MiracleGro in it, supposedly good for 6 months. Maybe the plant likes the exra nutes. 😄

It's really interesting to see the way different environments affect growth.