HUAYO AGRO’s Eggplant Transplanter can work for professional eggplant planting companies for safe and efficient transplantation of eggplant seedlings.

Growing eggplants outdoors in field –if done rationally and on a scalable basis- can be a good source of income. In a few words, eggplant is a perennial plant, but growers in most cases treat it as an annual.  Most commercial eggplant growers start the crop from seeds (hybrids) in an indoor protected environment. As they wait for the young seedlings to grow and be ready for transplanting (normally 4-6 weeks), they prepare the field.   They till the land, they make the raised beds or furrows and they place a black plastic film through the rows.  The black plastic film not only helps the soil become warmer, but also controls weeds. They also design and place the drip irrigation system. When they are ready for transplanting, they make small holes in the plastic film, where they dig small holes and plant the seedlings. Fertilization, Drip Irrigation and Weed Management is applied in most cases.

To save labour and increase the transplanting efficiency,  the HYZ-2 Eggplant Transplanter driven by tractor  will transplant the yong Eggplant Seedlings to field with uniform row spacing and plant spacing.

Growing Eggplant from Seedlings

If you prefer to start eggplant farming from seedlings, it is crucial to buy disease-free plants from a legitimate seller. The optimum time for transplanting is when they have 3-4 real leaves (4-6 weeks). Transplanting will most probably fail, unless the soil temperature is above 20 °C. Thus the best period for eggplant transplanting, in most countries is during the second half of spring.

Eggplant Planting in field and Plant spacing

In many eggplant producing countries, the most suitable time to plant eggplants outdoors, is during the second half of spring. At that time, temperatures are close to 21 °C (70 °F) and the danger of frost has passed in most cases. However, in the United States (Florida) and in United Arab Emirates, planting normally takes place during August and harvesting starts from November onwards. Farmers generally prefer seedlings aged from 4 to 6 weeks. At this point they have developed 3-4 real leaves. There are cases in which growers plant 8-10 weeks old seedlings. This technique will normally result in fewer days from transplanting to harvesting.

After all the preparation steps started 1 month before planting (plowing, basic fertilization, installation of the irrigation system and plastic film covering), we can proceed with transplanting. Growers label the exact points on the polyethylene mulch where they will plant the young plants. They then dig holes on the plastic and plant the seedlings. It is important to plant the seedlings at the same depth as they were at the nursery.

Producers plant eggplants at single or twin rows. A common pattern for single rows planting is: 0.4m to 0.8m (18-35 inches) distance between plants on the row and 1.2m to 1.5 m (4-5ft) distance between rows. For twin rows planting, many growers prefer: 0.4m to 0.8m (18-35 inches) distance between plants on the row and 0.9m to 1.2m (3-4 ft) distance between rows. Following this pattern, we will approximately plant 10000-20000 plants per hectare. However, this is not always the case. Many farmers plant from 25.000 to 35.000 plants per hectare. The distances and the number of plants, depend on the eggplant variety, environmental conditions and of course the yield goals of the producer. (1 hectare = 2,47 acres = 10.000 square meters).

Popular additional function for Seedling transplanter

As automatic Transplanter , it can Lay drip tape , pave plastic mulch , and Fertilize at same time.

• Laying irrigation drip tape
• Paving plastic mulch to control weeds and keep ground wet.
• Watering application for dry field
• Fertlizer

Technical Parameter

2 Row Tomato Planting with 35 cm Row spacing

Transplant 2 Row Eggplant Seedling with 35cm Row spacing

More than 50000 Vegetable Transplanters are manufactured every year in HUAYO AGRO .  It helps Farmers to transplant plants easiler and save 80% labor cost .

With uniform planting Row Spacing and Plant Spacing in one row, the farm yeild improves with 200%.