Thanks for posting, will keep that in mind.

I have one large Ping Tung plant that I overwintered. It was not especially prolific last year. Not a lot of flowers even. I was rolling in eggplants in years before with the now defunct Ichiban (no thanks to Monsanto for discontinuing it!) For the last few weeks, however, it has been healthy and covered in flowers but I have yet to see a single fruit. I have three other small ones getting ready to transplant, and the issue is whether to chuck this big one to make more room for those.

Dan, I'd keep it for at least a couple more weeks before deciding to pull it. Ours were flowering for what seemed forever (a couple of weeks) and even dropped a good number of blossoms with no sign of fruit and then from one day to the next there were suddenly a handful of tiny fruits forming and we've had the "big fruit bust out" starting only in the past week and a half. They are still flowering and fruit is still bursting forth. If the plant is healthy and flowering I'm betting you will soon be getting fruit on it!

I agree, my eggplants from last year are doing well, I cut them back a little. is all. But I bought a few more Ichibans from Bonnie. Maybe by the time they run out there will be similar eggplants on the market.

I now have lots of tiny fruit on my over-wintered Ping Tung. It has been ablaze with flowers for almost a month, but it took a while to convince those flowers to set fruit! So your advice was good, israelthyme.

If you graft your egg plant onto a devil plant as root stock, you will produce an egg plant tree that produces much more fruit than a normal egg plant when your growing season is long.

I've overwintered some eggplants for several years in a row. The plants start out producing lots of foliage each spring, and a few flowers which don't usually set fruit. However, after about 5 weeks, the harvest starts in earnest. I much larger plants than I would with seedlings, and the plants have a massive root system to support all the new top growth. I overwinter in a greenhouse, and find that much of the old top growth dies in the winter, but is quickly replaced.

Renais

Renais, do you do any pruning? Or do you just let what dies die.