The first purple brinjal on this plant – a rather sizeable one, compared to the earlier ones we’ve grown.

The new eggplant or brinjal plant has finally started bearing fruits, and I’m happy to see that these are bigger fruits than our previous plants had. The first fruit was just over 20cm long, which is quite respectable, in my books. I would have left it to grow a bit bigger, but the plant had a number of flowers and I thought I’d let it put its energy into conceiving and growing new fruits, so I harvested the fruit.

What intrigued me once I had it off the plant, was how pretty it was. Just look at the pretty streaks in the colouring that follow the contour of the fruit – it’s like someone decided to paint a green brinjal purple but didn’t have enough purple paint to do the job properly but tried to keep spreading out the purple paint anyway…

See the streaky pattern in the skin of the fruit?

No wonder artists have looked to nature for inspiration for ages!

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