â¢Posted by Slimy_Okra 2b (My Page) on Mon, Jul 1, 13 at 18:27 When it's hot (65 or above at night, and 85 or above during the day), the flower can go to harvestable fruit within a week for small fruited types like Fairy Tale, 10 days for medium-size fruit like Millionaire and about two weeks for large fruit. ========================================= Disagree I would not think so. Never can get from flower to harvestable eggplant fruit in 10 days, IN MY EXPERIENCE. I have gardened in GA for years. You can hardly get cukes and zukes from flower to fruit in a week.

Murky, I will briefly respond to some of your questions, "If Colt is so terrible, why is it still being propagated? Is the toleration of wet/heavy soils really its only redeeming quality? " I don't why certain commercial producers still use it. One of my commercial suppliers stopped growing Colt rootstock altogether due to the suceptibilty of crown gall. In my area, that is about the only redeeming quality. It does produce sooner than Mazzard, but then the fruit isn't as good. " I didn't quite follow what you were saying about its supposedly being "semi-dwarf" but even then showing unreliable. Are you saying that it doesn't dwarf reliably? Or that it doesn't provide some other characteristic associated with dwarfing like precocity or regularity in producing a crop or something? " Yes, Colt has been tested extensively in Calfornia and tests have shown Colt sometimes does not dwarf at all and can grow as large as a Mazzard tree. I apologize if my questions come accross as dense. I'm pretty inexperienced and often don't fully grasp the terminology used in describing fruit raising. "For instance, when you say "poor quality fruit" is that a general term that takes into account all desirable characteristics of fruit such as flavor, sugar content, size, coloration, texture, firmness, flesh/pit ratio, insect/disease damage, etc? Or is that term "fruit quality" specific to certain attributes? " What I have found in Colt trees I have is that Colt can produce light crops. I also see undersized fruit. In commercial farming undersized fruit fetches a much lower price. I have acquaintances who grow large acreages of cherries in Central California who use both Colt and Mahaleb. The Mahaleb trees produce good fruit and perform well and the Colt trees have underperformed. My cherry orchard is planted in Mazzard. I have experimented with a few rootstocks. I planted Bings on Mahaleb, Colt, Gisela 5, & Gisela 6. Out of those, Colt has been the worst performer.

My Kieffer pear from Home Depot in Hooksett, NH went into the ground in Manchester (Zone 5b) in late spring 2017, Right now, fall 2018, it still has 13 of its 18 pears. They are large and basically unblemished. Squirrels and birds attacked my plums, peaches, and apples, but not the pears, so far. The Luscious pears were a bit too ripe almost a month ago, but these Kieffer pears are not ripe yet. They are tender enough to bite now, but not yet sweet, here. Not bad, but not sweet yet. I will leave them a couple more weeks. My tree was about 8 ft tall when I planted it, and is about 12 feet tall now, in about 18 months from purchase. Since my Heritage raspberries have gotten 10' tall, i suspect this pear tree also will get taller than predicted. That's it, the skinny thing in the center of the picture, as of September 9, 2018.

Here's the information we posted on this page two years ago, Norbert, about how we encourage pineapple plants to produce fruits: We place an entire apple beside the base of the pineapple plant, Elena. Because your plant is growing in a pot, you should enclose the entire potted plant in a large clear plastic bag, and close the bag (underneath the pot for a more esthetic appearance). Then position it where the plant will get plenty of light but not in direct full sun, to avoid creating too much heat from the greenhouse effect. As the apple ages, it produced ethylene gas which induces the plant to create a fruit, which will grow to become as large as the pineapples you buy in stores. Note that after you pick the fruit for eating, the plant will eventually die -- but not before it has produced one or more baby plants, each of which in two years will provide your next crop of pineapples. You can get more details about growing pineapples and many other plants on our Gardeners of Southwest Florida group's extensive website at https://meetup.com/FloridaGardeners. Group membership, gardening classes, light refreshments and everything else in this large and helpful group is free, so welcome aboard.