Subject: 2015-2016 Winter Indoor Peppers
When I searched growing eggplants as perennial, I had two promising hits -- one from California and one from Hawaii. Well, in the California article, a master gardener answered the eggplant question by describing how she overwintered peppers (once) -- Ha! Useless! -- should have gone with the Hawaiian result from the outset since imafan has mentioned hers grow year-round and year to year.applestar wrote:I was afraid to include eggplants in the topic title because I was afraid that would jinx them... But as it turned out, four of the overwintered eggplants seem to have survived.
I Uppotted them out of these ice cream containers into individual containers today. There were three in one container -- one of them with a white baby eggplant so presumably these are all White Comet. The other container had one plant left with flower that is lighter purple so maybe this is Diamond.
Both containers had worms in them. The two best growing, flowering plants each had a biggest worm in its roots. Gave the smaller plants their own big worms in the new containers.
In the article, what they are doing is grafting culinary eggplant to a wild relative:Turkey Berry -- well look at that! imafan asked if Pea eggplant is same as Turkey Berry I have a Pea eggplant growing again, thanks to Pepperhead212.
According to the article, you can propagate Turkey Berry from cuttings and then graft scion from your eggplants onto the rooted cutting rootstock.
https://www.kumuainafarm.com/hello-peren ... lant-tree/
-- what? They describe those things as 6 ft trees? Oh no problem!
I will be aiming for BonEggy (a derivation based on Fatalii's BonChi ) https://www.fatalii.net/bonsai_chiles_bonchi