Green/Brown aubergines

[Ergates]

Hello

I have 3 aubergine plants in my little greenhouse. I got a few good fruit from them to start with, but now all the fruit start off looking OK (i.e. dark purple) when small, but end up going green or brown (or green then brown).

Is this caused by a lack of some particular nutrient, or too much of one? Or too little/too much water? Or something else? Any help/advice appreciated. (a bit late for this year, but it'd be good if I get more than one crop from them next year).

[Jillyreeves]

You did well to get a crop of any kind, aubergines are had to grow. I had, composted them yesterday, four lovely healthy plants in my conservatory, plenty of flowers too, but not one set fruit.

[Welsh Wizard]

I had good results with my 2 outdoor patio pot grown Aubergine (Black Beauty) plants this year: I actually found them to be quite prolific fruiters with around five good size fruits and many more babies per plant even with my shocking watering habits, once they established. The key I think is starting them early, quality soil with rich homemade compost and keeping them well sheltered from the wind, especially during that critical fruit setting period. I also hadn't realized how prickly the fruit stems were and got stung a few times!

I eat the green aubergines in stews and curries and cant taste a difference.

[annacruachan]

Hello

I have 3 aubergine plants in my little greenhouse. I got a few good fruit from them to start with, but now all the fruit start off looking OK (i.e. dark purple) when small, but end up going green or brown (or green then brown).

Is this caused by a lack of some particular nutrient, or too much of one? Or too little/too much water? Or something else? Any help/advice appreciated. (a bit late for this year, but it'd be good if I get more than one crop from them next year).

I had a good crop of baby aubergines in my conservatory this year, but as the summer went on more and more of them grew with brown skins and a yellowish pulp. These were still edible, just a little harder than the others and the seeds more difficult to cope with.
I don't know what causes it, I'm afraid, but it doesn't seem to do any harm.

[annacruachan]

I think you'd be unlikely to get more than one crop per year.

[Gro-Bag]

I tried a few in the (unheated) greenhouse. They've only got as far as starting to flower - I was wondering about bringing them in the house over winter and sticking them in the greenhouse again in Spring, see if we get anything then? - or is that just too unlikely? Perhaps aubergines in Scotland are just not going to happen!!

[annacruachan]

It seems that you need to give them more heat than in an unheated greenhouse, Gro-bag. I had a massive crop here on the NW coast, but grew them in the conservatory - unheated but much warmer than the GH. It was also necessary to tickle the flowers with with a paintbrush at first to get pollination going.
A lot of grapes up here had success with them this year, so don't give up.