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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 1, 2017 9:04:58 GMT -5
I thought I'd just post how nice this eggplant is, I rec'd the seed from ferdzy four years (maybe?) ago along with some Turkish leek and celeriac seed. I lost the other two unfortunately as I dropped them in my super organized seed stash and spaced out on them for a couple of years. The eggplant however I gave a shot in 2015, and really liked it. There's some variability in the seed I have, don't know if that comes from the original strain or if a bit of it got crossed up here, I am not a maniac about isolation by any means. Overall it is a really wonderful long Asian type fruit with nice SHINY skin. I've trialled several Japanese type eggplants and they all seem to have a matte "finish" on the skin. When you put a ferdzy's Turkish next to them, my customers will buy the ferdzy's all day long before they will touch the matte, Japanese ones. People buy with their eyes! I've stopped growing any other Asian type eggplant at all other than ferdzy's now, as these are productive and only a little bit later in maturity. They also seem to have stronger plants that don't flop over or split down the middle as easily as the Japanese types I've grown before. One of the markets we attend is very close to a big block of graduate student housing near Cornell, and we have lots of Asian grad student customers that prefer Asian skinny type over Italian bell shaped ones, I can sell all the ferdzy's I can harvest at that market! Just wanted to post a big shout out and thank you to ferdzy for giving these to me, I think she threw them in as an afterthought, I cannot remember the context of the original exchange, but it was some time after her trip to Turkey (I think). I highly recommend this one, I call it ferdzy's Turkish, but maybe it has another name? I wish I had a pic of a bin full of them on one of our displays a market, but I can't find one.  |
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Post by ferdzy on Dec 1, 2017 16:17:31 GMT -5
Hey, terrific. That does look a bit skinny for what I think of as my Turkish eggplant (which does have a name; it's Aydin Siyahi). Kind of like it might have crossed with Ping Tung, which is our other favourite eggplant. HOWEVER. Did I send you seed from the packet I bought or from saved seed? I don't remember saving any eggplant seed back then - I still struggle with saving eggplant seed, a bit. But I might have. Maybe possibly. The seed I bought was treated, and would have had a pink dye on it, I THINK. Mine would have been 'au naturel'.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 1, 2017 19:56:43 GMT -5
HOWEVER. Did I send you seed from the packet I bought or from saved seed? I don't remember saving any eggplant seed back then - I still struggle with saving eggplant seed, a bit. But I might have. Maybe possibly. The seed I bought was treated, and would have had a pink dye on it, I THINK. Mine would have been 'au naturel'. The seed you sent was most definitely poisonous pink. Its nice to know the name! |
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Post by ferdzy on Dec 1, 2017 21:50:15 GMT -5
Yes, okay. So straight from the market in Istanbul then. And I agree; Aydin Siyahi is an excellent eggplant. I may be asking you for some seed, lol.
My impression of my Turkish seeds is that the varieties are more variable than we are used to here in North America. The leeks strike me as more of a landrace.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 2, 2017 6:39:03 GMT -5
Yes, okay. So straight from the market in Istanbul then. And I agree; Aydin Siyahi is an excellent eggplant. I may be asking you for some seed, lol. My impression of my Turkish seeds is that the varieties are more variable than we are used to here in North America. The leeks strike me as more of a landrace. That's been my impression of most of the Italian seed from Franchi that I've purchased as well. Lots of variability in OP seed, but usually the packet contains nearly 10-20 times more seed than a typical US market seed packet so I can't complain. I'm a sucker for diversity anyway. |
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Post by reed on Dec 3, 2017 5:47:12 GMT -5
Sorry to be off topic from the egg plant but do you normally have good luck with Franchi seed? I ask cause I got a collection of about 20 cabbage, broccoli and other b oleracea for my cold tolerant trials and only had about 20% germination across the whole bunch. Three or four were 0%. Fortunately there was a LOT of seed per pack.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 3, 2017 6:59:06 GMT -5
Sorry to be off topic from the egg plant but do you normally have good luck with Franchi seed? I ask cause I got a collection of about 20 cabbage, broccoli and other b oleracea for my cold tolerant trials and only had about 20% germination across the whole bunch. Three or four were 0%. Fortunately there was a LOT of seed per pack. Who did you buy it from? Franchi seed sold in the US is all imported. I've had dud packets in the past, but I've always bought from Seeds from Italy and they replace or refund no questions asked. |
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Post by reed on Dec 3, 2017 19:45:21 GMT -5
Seeds of Italy is where I got them. I may drop them a little note just to let them know.
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Post by steev on Dec 3, 2017 20:49:36 GMT -5
I've also been very pleased with Seeds of Italy; perhaps your shipment suffered bad conditions in transit.
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