55 days. Japan long-type produces early, high quality fruit over 8 inches long with brilliant black skin and a purple calyx. The tender flesh is nearly seedless. This is a great replacement for Ichiban. An ideal variety for greenhouses, home gardens, and open field crops. Approx. 6,000 seeds/oz. The millionaire purple hybrid variety of eggplant is long and slender, growing to be up to eight inches long. The millionaire purple hybrid reaches maturity in just fifty five days and is suitable for grow zones five to twelve. This variety does best in moist soil and full sun.

Growing Millionare Purple Hybrid Eggplant Garden Seeds

• Latin Name: Solanum melongena
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• Days to Maturity: 50-60 days
• Hardiness Zone: 5-12
• Planting Depth: 1"
• Plant Spacing: 18"
• Row Spacing: 4'
• Growth Habit: Upright
• Soil Preference: Moist, 55 degrees
• Temp Preference: Warmer
• Light Preference: Full Sun
• Diseases/pests: Susceptible to corn wireworms, cutworms, and fungal diseases
• Color:Purple
• Flavor:Mildly bitter

Eggplants can be sown indoors and transplanted outdoors when they are at least six inches tall and the weather has warmed to at least 55 degrees Fahrenheit. To begin, poke a hole half an inch deep in each pot or tray that you are using, and sow two seeds in each. Lightly cover the seeds and place the pots or trays by a window with full sunlight. Eggplant needs moist soil to thrive, so keep the soil watered. Once you see two sets of leaves sprouting up, thin them out by cutting the weaker of the two down to soil level. After transplanting outdoors, you should water the millionaire purple hybrid eggplants every day to keep the soil moist. Since the crops can become heavy, it can be helpful to use a post, pole, or other support. When the globes are glossy, you can harvest them by snipping them off the vine.

Additional information about eggplants from UC Davis: