Eggplant Seeds - Gretel HybridPacket of 100 Seeds. 50 days. AAS Winner for 2005. New miniature eggplants are white with violet purple stripes. The fruit are non bitter, with a tender skin and few seeds. The elongated, oval eggplants can be picked when quite small at 1 2oz or left on the plant until double that weight and the flavor and tenderness remain. The petite plant reaches only 2 ft tall and wide and adapts well to container gardening. Growing Gretel Hybrid Eggplant Garden