Dumaguete Long Purple Eggplant: Yield, Maturity and Characteristics
Dumaguete Long Purple is a registered eggplant variety, also sold or known as Dumaguete Long Purple OP or DLP eggplant. The Philippine Seed Board approved it in 1970. UPCA bred it. It takes 95 to 105 days from transplanting to the first harvest, with 27.66 tonnes per hectare on average in the trials.
The average and top yields in tonnes per hectare come from the trials each variety went through to be registered with the NSIC, and from what the seed companies say about their own seed.
What farmers harvest today can be different. Newer harvest records, the season, the place, the soil, the water and the care all move these numbers over time.
So use them to compare varieties, not as a promise for your field. Ask your seller or your agriculturist how the variety did on farms near you in the last few seasons.
If you came here looking for Dumaguete Long Purple OP or DLP eggplant, this is the same eggplant. Its seller and farm sources add notes, listed at the end. Compare it with the others in our eggplant variety finder, or see every crop variety we list. For the crop itself, read our guide: Land preparation for vegetables.
- Days to harvest: 95 to 105 days from transplanting to the first harvest.
- Yield: 27.66 tonnes per hectare on average in the trials.
Key facts about Dumaguete Long Purple eggplant
| Trait | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Registration | Philippine Seed Board |
| Year approved | 1970 |
| Breeder or owner | UPCA |
| Also known as | Dumaguete Long Purple OP, DLP eggplant |
| Days to harvest | 95 to 105 days |
| Average yield | 27.66 t/ha |
| Yield, dry season | 27.66 t/ha |
How long does it take, and how much does it yield?
Dumaguete Long Purple eggplant takes 95 to 105 days from transplanting to the first harvest. That is 17.5 days longer than the average of the 9 eggplant varieties with a day count, 82.5 days. A shorter crop frees the field sooner and dodges more of the weather, while a longer one often fills more.
Its average yield of 27.66 t/ha beats the average of its group, 20.34. It sits in the top quarter of its group. Trial yields come from well managed plots, so your own will depend on water, fertilizer, pests and timing. Its seller gives about 100 days to first harvest (95 to 105 in the Seed Board record), the lists 70 to 72 days after transplanting.
Once you know the day count, anee.io dates every task from each lot's own planting day, with the growth stages and weather beside it.
Is it resistant to pests and diseases?
No pest or disease ratings are published for this variety. So treat it as untested, and scout every week.
The pests and diseases that hit eggplant fields most often: eggplant fruit and shoot borer, anthracnose, bacterial wilt, cutworm, damping off. Our pest finder and disease finder help you name what you see.
What its seller and farm sources say
- Yield: 20 to 25 t/ha (Agriculture Monthly), 27.7 t/ha in the Seed Board record.
- Fruit: Large, long and slightly tapering, shiny, greenish purple.
- Season: All year, best yields in the cool dry months.
- Where: Lowland to midland.
- Tolerates waterlogging and long flooding.
- Highly tolerant to bacterial wilt.
- Used as a rootstock for grafted rainy season tomato.
Why farmers know it: old public variety still on the recommended list, Agriculture Monthly featured it as a waterlogging tolerant eggplant. Check these against what farmers near you have seen, because the same variety can do differently from one town to the next.
Where and when to plant Dumaguete Long Purple eggplant
Buyers in each market want their own talong: long and slim and dark purple in most of Luzon, rounder or striped in some towns. Pick a variety with bacterial wilt resistance, and plan for the fruit and shoot borer whatever you plant, because no variety on the market resists it. Before planting, get the field ready with our guide: Pagtatanim ng gulay.
Before you buy seed
- Buy sealed packs or tagged sacks from an accredited dealer, and check the packing date and germination rate.
- Ask your municipal agriculturist or nearby farmers how it did in your area last season.
- Try it on a small area first, beside the variety you usually plant, before you switch the whole farm.
- Write down the planting day, inputs and harvest, so you can compare varieties on your own ground. anee.io keeps these records for you.
Set the planting day of each lot and anee.io dates every task to harvest, with the weather beside it. Free on the Libre plan.
Start freeEggplant varieties like this one
These are the closest matches among the eggplant varieties we list. So if seed of this one is hard to find, compare these first.
- Dingras Multiple Purple #1: 95 to 105 days, 30.45 t/ha, 1970
- E.G. Long Purple: 90 to 100 days, 27 t/ha, 1970
- UPL Eg II: 79 to 86 days, 15.52 t/ha, 1980
- Tanglaw: about 82 days, 16.7 t/ha, 2013
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