Appendix 8 Eggplant culture
United Kingdom
Sow seeds of eggplant (Solanum melongena) in pasteurized seed compost. Transplant seedlings with fully expanded cotyledons (10 to 14 days) into pasteurized potting compost.
Eggplants should be grown in a glasshouse with the following environmental conditions:
| Day length: | 14 hours or natural day length if greater; | |
| Temperature: | day: | 21 to 24 °C, |
| night: | 15 °C. |
| Susceptible varieties of eggplant: | ‘Black Beauty’, |
| ‘Long Tom’, | |
| ‘Rima’, | |
| ‘Balsas’ |
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