What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Hope you've been doing well this week.

Today we're talking about eggplants. Eggplants are one of my favorite plants to grow.

There's so many different varieties of them and they can come in all shapes sizes and colors.

There's some very beautiful, creamy white and red eggplants that I don't think many people are aware of.

Now, today's question though is about if you should be pruning your eggplants and how to go ahead and

prune them. So this is a very common question and the answer actually really

does depend on what you prefer and your growing location.

So if you live in a colder climate

and you're growing your eggplants

as an annual plant because they're

going to die in the winter when the frost comes, you don't need to think

about pruning too much because again they are going to die off and you might as well just let them

get as big as they can before you harvest them.

If, however, you are going to grow them for longer periods of time or you want to prune them and make sure that you get absolute maximum production,

well then yeah it's going to make sense to give them a little clip here and there

and this is how we do it. So what you want to do is you want to wait until the plant is established

and is already actually produced some eggplants.

If your plant has already gone through

its first period of production and it's kind of slowing down, this is a good time to do some

pruning. So the traditional shape to go for when you're pruning it is a three-stemmed shape.

So you should leave the first main division.

So this is where the first two stems

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