 thin um sausage looking like eggplants but i think these are called chinese eggplant something like that yeah um yeah so there's a few different varieties of eggplant i think most people are probably referring to like the black beauty and you can harvest it really any time but you know there's a certain window and um image is more applicable for this particular answer but you want to get it to about where the store size you would see it at the grocery store