Description and characteristics of the variety
- The hybrid is suitable for cultivation in open ground, as well as in greenhouse conditions.
- Early ripening. The first ripe fruits can be harvested 105-110 days after seed germination.
- The bushes grow up to 1.6 m in height. Therefore, it is recommended to tie them to supports or a trellis so that the stem does not break under the weight of the fruit.
- The stem is pubescent, purple.
- The leaves are medium and green.
- Planting scheme: 3 bushes per 1 sq. meter.
- Productivity is average. From 1 sq. meters, about 4.5-5 kg of vegetables are collected. One bush produces 6 fruits in open ground, and 10 fruits in a greenhouse.
- Fruiting lasts 30-45 days, so the harvest can be harvested within 1-1.5 months.
- It has high immunity to nightshade diseases, such as late blight.
- Resistant to adverse weather conditions.
Harvesting and application
Bourgeois eggplant is harvested in August . Technical ripeness occurs 30–40 days after flowering. The fruits gain weight and rich color, become firm and elastic. Vegetables are picked as they ripen. You cannot keep them on the bushes: the pulp loses its taste and becomes bitter. Eggplants are cut off together with the stalk - this way they are stored longer.
Bourgeois eggplant is early ripening , so the bulk of the harvest is eaten as early as possible. Fruits with scratches or dents are processed first. Eggplants can be stored in a cool place for no more than 3 weeks.
Important! When exposed to light, the vegetable produces solanine, an element dangerous to human health. Therefore, for storage, the harvest is placed in dark plastic bags.
Thanks to the shape of the Bourgeois eggplant, it serves as an excellent base for stuffed baked dishes . The vegetable goes harmoniously with mushroom, vegetable and meat fillings. Its taste is emphasized by seafood, creamy sauces, dried fruits and spices. Housewives use the harvest for processing and preparing useful winter preparations. Pickled and canned eggplants harmonize with tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Appetizers are spiced up with garlic, a mixture of peppers, vinegar and a mixture of Provençal herbs.
Interesting! Eggplant is one of the main ingredients for Italian spice pie. The recipe for the dish also includes minced meat, salted curd cheese, thyme, and shallots. This pie is an excellent dish for a holiday table.
Fruit characteristics
- A special feature of the hybrid variety Bourgeois is its fruits, or rather their shape. They are spherical.
- Eggplants grow up to 13 cm in diameter.
- The weight of one fruit is 330-350 g. However, individual specimens can gain weight up to 600 g.
- The skin is dark purple.
- The pulp is white, tender, without bitterness.
- The fruits are stored well in a cool place for 30-45 days.
- Good presentation.
- Withstands long-distance transportation.
Reviews of eggplant Bourgeois F1
Margarita, 37 years old, Maykop This year, for the first time, I grew eggplant Bourgeois F1 in my garden. Frankly speaking, I fell in love with this variety at first sight. The bushes are powerful and very beautiful. I received 8-9 fruits weighing 250-350 g from each plant. And on 1 bush for the experiment, I tore off all the ovaries, leaving only 4 pieces. The fruits that grew on them were simply huge, one reached as much as 620 g. By the way, the taste of eggplants is simply amazing.
Yuri, 33 years old, Dnieper Last year I purchased eggplant seeds Burzhuy F1 from the Sedek agricultural company. I’ll say right away - an excellent hybrid. The taste of the fruit is very pleasant, and thanks to its unusual shape, it looks very original baked with vegetables in the oven. Unfortunately, the variety is not particularly resistant to diseases and pests, but with proper care it did not cause any problems. The Colorado potato beetle, however, has taken a liking to it, but we are used to fighting this “brother.”
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the positive qualities of the variety are the following:
- Gives a consistently good harvest.
- The fruits have an unusual shape for eggplants.
- Resistant to transportation.
- They have good keeping quality.
- Excellent taste without bitterness and presentation.
- Long-term fruiting.
- Resistant to most nightshade diseases.
- Universal application.
The disadvantages of a hybrid include:
- Long period of seed germination.
- Does not tolerate drought.
- Bush shaping is required.
- Does not bear fruit well when planted in dense areas.
Cooking tips
Eggplants Bourgeois F1 are suitable for various culinary purposes. They are used in the preparation of first and second courses, appetizers, salads, and for stuffing. They can be fried, stewed, boiled, steamed, baked in the oven or grilled.
The pulp does not lose its taste and beneficial properties after heat treatment. Among the variety of dishes that can be prepared from eggplants, we should highlight caviar, stews, rolls, moussaka, lasagne, cutlets, and ratatouille.
These little blue ones should be grown by those who do winter harvesting. Canning will allow you to preserve the product for a long time. You can also freeze vegetables to preserve them for the winter. For freezing, the blue ones are cut into rings.
Did you know? Europeans learned about the existence of eggplant in the middle of the 15th century, but they began to use it in cooking only after 4 centuries.
When preparing eggplant dishes, you can use the following simple tips:
- Since vegetables contain a substance called solanine, which can add bitterness to a dish, to remove it, you should soak the blue ones in water for 20–30 minutes before cooking.
- Soaking chopped and salted vegetables for 25–30 minutes will also help eliminate bitterness. The water will need to be drained.
- To prevent the pulp from turning black, you must use stainless steel knives when cutting.
- The flesh will not turn black if you cook eggplants over high heat.
- Since eggplants quickly and actively absorb vegetable oil, so that they do not become too fatty during frying, it is necessary to cook them in a non-stick frying pan with the addition of a small amount of oil. When frying, roll vegetables in flour mixed with salt.
- For an original taste, you should combine blueberries with garlic, cilantro, and nuts.
Thus, the eggplant Bourgeois F1, thanks to the original shape of the fruit, is gaining more and more popularity. To grow it, you will have to put in a lot of effort. However, with proper care, the little blue ones will undoubtedly delight you with rich and tasty harvests.
Features of cultivation
Seed preparation
To increase the germination of seeds, they must first be prepared for sowing:
- Germination test. Pour the seeds into a glass of water and select those that sink to the bottom. Or spread the seeds on a damp cloth and after 7 days select those that will hatch.
- Warm up The seeds are poured onto a plate and left on the radiator for 2-3 days.
- Treatment with growth stimulator Zircon or Epin. Since the seeds of this hybrid take a long time to germinate, it is better to soak them in a growth stimulator for 12 hours or treat them with aloe juice.
After all the procedures, the seed can be planted immediately in open soil, provided that the weather is warm outside and the soil has warmed up to 15-17 degrees.
But it is still better to give preference to seedling methods of growing eggplants.
Seedling care
To grow seedlings, prepared seeds are sown in cups or pots with nutritious soil. 1 seed is planted in one container.
Crops are regularly watered with water at room temperature so that the soil is always moist. 2 weeks after sowing, fertilizers are applied (30 g of potassium nitrate are diluted in 10 liters of water).
Then, during the month, fertilizers are applied 2 more times:
- When 2 true leaves appear, use potassium-nitrogen fertilizers (Kemira-Lux fertilizer. 20-30 g diluted in 10 liters of water).
- 7-10 days before transplanting to a permanent place - nitrogen, potassium or phosphorus (5 g of ammonium nitrate, 15 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium sulfate are dissolved in 10 liters of water.)
All this time, the seedlings must be illuminated with fluorescent lamps. Read more about this in the article: How to choose a lamp for illuminating seedlings.
10 days before transferring the seedlings to a permanent place, they must begin to harden. To do this, the seedlings are taken outside, first for 20-30 minutes, gradually increasing the time until daylight.
How to grow eggplant yourself
The hybrid is grown in seedlings . Seedlings help seedlings adapt to external conditions and prevent the occurrence of diseases.
Growing seedlings
Seedlings are prepared 2-3 weeks before planting eggplants on the site .
This requires a seedling container, such as flower pots, plastic glasses or kefir boxes. The main thing before planting is to rinse the container and wipe with a clean towel. Soil from the garden is used as soil .
It is cleaned of debris and weeds, heated in the oven for two hours at a temperature of +180 °C. Many people prefer to use ready-made soil mixtures from the store, because they are already disinfected in advance and enriched with nutritional components for better plant development. Next, the planting material is disinfected by placing it in a solution of potassium permanganate for a day . The procedure kills dangerous microbes on the surface of the seeds and prevents diseases. Afterwards, the seed is germinated by placing it in damp gauze for 2-3 days. Germination improves germination.
Pour soil into the container and make small grooves 1-2 cm deep . Drop two seeds into each, sprinkle with earth and gently pat down.
Water the seedlings with warm and clean water . Store in a warm and sunny place, for example, on a windowsill. If the windows face north, provide additional lighting with fluorescent lamps. Water the seedlings once every 10 days. Fertilize twice with liquid organic fertilizers. 5 days before planting in open ground, the seedlings are hardened off - taken out to the balcony 3-4 hours daily.
Preparing the soil for planting
In order for seedlings to take root in a new place, the soil must be properly prepared:
- in the fall the site is dug up and organic fertilizers are applied;
- after this, sprinkle with limestone to reduce acidity;
- It is recommended to put sawdust or dry grass under the layer of soil to insulate the bed, because eggplants love warmth.
Advice! Bourgeois eggplants grow best in light soil with little acidity, in a well-lit place protected from drafts and north winds.
You should not plant eggplants twice in the same place to reduce the risk of nightshade diseases and pests.
Transplanting
When the soil warms up to 15 degrees (approximately in the second half of May), the seedlings can be transplanted into open ground. For this:
- Dig holes 25-30 cm deep.
- Water generously with warm water.
- A bush with a lump of earth is transferred into the hole.
- They are covered with earth, but not compacted, so as not to reduce the air permeability of the soil.
For the first 14 days, the seedlings are watered every other day with warm water.
For more information on how to grow eggplant seedlings, read the article: When and how to plant eggplant seedlings: step-by-step instructions
Planting and caring for eggplant varieties Burzhuy F1
Growing eggplant Bourgeois F1 in the first stages of the plant’s life is not much different from other varieties. Since the seeds of this variety have a long germination period and germinate only on days 10-14, it is recommended to grow eggplant through seedlings.
The time for growing eggplant seedlings depends on the climate zone and the method of further growth. Seeds are sown 60-70 days before the expected date of planting seedlings in the ground. This is usually mid to late March.
Aloe juice is used as a growth stimulator, in which the planting material is soaked for 20-30 minutes. Then the seeds are sown in seed boxes filled with fertile soil to a depth of 2 cm and watered. After this, the container is covered with glass or film and wait for shoots to appear. The temperature during this period is maintained at +22˚+25˚С.
On the 10-12th day, when the first shoot loops appear, the glass is removed. To avoid stretching the eggplants, boxes with seedlings are placed on a sunny windowsill, and the temperature is reduced for 3-5 days to +18˚С, and then raised again to +22˚С.
Water the young seedlings very carefully, since waterlogging during this period is very dangerous.
After 2-3 weeks, the seedlings are planted. Further care consists of fertilizing with complex fertilizer and watering. After 45-50 days, the seedlings are ready for planting.
Before planting, eggplant plants are hardened off for 7-8 days.
Compliance with the rules of planting and caring for Bourgeois eggplant is an important factor in obtaining a good harvest. Therefore, it is worth adhering to some time-tested recommendations.
Choose a sunny place for the ridge. Since the bushes of the Bourgeois eggplant grow quite powerful, the soil must be not only moisture-absorbing, but also nutritious.
Eggplant seedlings are planted at the rate of 3 plants per 1 m2 or according to a 50 x 70 cm pattern.
During the growing season, Bourgeois eggplant is fed 3-4 times. The first - 2 weeks after planting, the second - during the formation of fruits, the third and fourth - during the period of mass ripening of the crop.
Rotted manure, mineral fertilizers, compost, and bird droppings are used as fertilizers.
Attention! Fertilizing is carried out only in moist soil. During periods when eggplant is experiencing drought, feeding the plants is not recommended.
Bourgeois is watered 2-3 times a week depending on weather conditions.
To retain moisture and protect the roots from temperature changes, the soil under the bushes is mulched with a 10-15 cm layer of mown grass or straw.
If necessary, the bush is formed, removing unnecessary branches and ovaries.
If you plan to get a large harvest or especially large fruits, supports are installed for the plants. A photo of eggplant Bourgeois in open ground is presented below.
Hybrid Bourgeois F1 - delicious eggplant with spherical fruits
The hybrid Bourgeois looks unusual for an eggplant - its fruits are absolutely round. However, the variety is notable not only for its original appearance. Eggplant has many other benefits, so it’s worth paying attention to it and learning more about its characteristics and features.
History of growing eggplant Bourgeois F1
The hybrid was bred by a well-known seed breeding company founded in 1995. An application for state variety testing was submitted in 2005, and the variety was included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation in 2007. It is recommended for cultivation in open ground and under film covers in private farms in all regions of Russia. Since eggplant is one of the most heat-loving crops, the first option is only possible in the southern latitudes or central regions of our country with a milder climate.
Eggplant Bourgeois F1 bred by specialists
Varietal characteristics and appearance of the variety
The plant is semi-spreading, not very tall (up to 70–80 cm), powerful, with a strong, slightly pubescent stem with an intense purple color. The medium-sized green leaves have a slightly wavy, rough surface and grooved edges. The leaf veins have traces of dark purple pigmentation. Large pale pink flowers with a purple tint are formed on a thick short stalk. The calyx is not spinous or has very sparse spines.
The fruit has the following characteristics:
- weight - 300 g (according to the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation) or 400–500 g (according to the originator);
- diameter with a mass of 300 g - 10 cm;
- the surface is glossy, may be slightly ribbed;
- color dark purple.
The fruits of the Bourgeois eggplant grow quite large, have an original spherical shape and a dark purple color.
Some gardeners note that there are specimens of Bourgeois F1 weighing 800 g.
The pulp is dense and at the same time tender, white or greenish in color, not bitter, with a subtle mushroom aroma. Eggplants store well and withstand transportation. The State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation, the originator and gardeners evaluate the taste qualities as high.
An important nuance is the timely collection of eggplants: when overripe, the seeds become hard.
The fruits are used universally:
- boiled
- fry,
- baked
- stuffed
- grilled,
- pickled,
- canned,
- They even eat it raw.
