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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: suziequeue on August 05, 2012, 09:25:03 am

Title: Aubergine flowers
Post by: suziequeue on August 05, 2012, 09:25:03 am

Our aubergines are starting to flower. Beautiful but nasty prickly receptacle.

I understand that I need to fertilise them with a brush.

Does anybody know when the best time to do this is?

I suspect that these flowers are still a bit "immature".

Title: Re: Aubergine flowers
Post by: Fleecewife on August 05, 2012, 11:06:31 am

When you can see the pollen particles on the yellow bits - it needs to be a certain temp for them to develop