Ma-Zu Purple Eggplant: Growing Tips

Key facts

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United States

Overview

Ma-Zu Purple is a Chinese eggplant from Taiwan with upright plants bearing dark purple fruit 8 to 12 inches long and about 2 inches wide. The upright habit keeps the slim fruit off the soil, and its shape is right for stir-fries.

Ma-Zu Purple traits

• Dark purple fruit 8 to 12 x 2 inches
• Upright plant
• Chinese eggplant from Taiwan

Good for

• Stir-fries
• Steaming and braising

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Ma-Zu Purple FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every eggplant variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Eggplant growing guide
• How to Plant Aubergines: Choosing Plants and Soil Temperature
• Training Aubergines to Three Stems and Keeping Them Cropping
• Cutting Aubergines Back in Midsummer for a Second Crop
• Aubergine Growing Calendar: Planting to the End of the Season
• Aubergine Problems: Wilts, Beetles and Hard, Dull Fruit
• When to Pick Aubergines and Why to Take the First One Early
• All 172 eggplant varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.