Aubergine in flower

[Bren In Pots]

Mine still only have flowers on them, I know they look pretty but I'd sooner have aubergines.

[chris]

Actually! just popped out.. I have two flowers. Probably too late, but we'll see.

[binley100]

ermmmmmm.......I actually have a baby aubergine on two and flowers on the others .............

[horticultural_hobbit]

Mine is a moody menace. Flowered, but now nothing. Might have to send it to the eggplant heaven in the sky if it doesn't do anything else.

[binley100]

I gave mine a tickle with a paint brush ........ I noticed today that on the market the were selling the long light purple ones that I gre last year and the guy sid they were expensive compared to the fat ones......damn , guess what I'm growing this year

[horticultural_hobbit]

I now have mental images of aubergines rolling around in fits of hysterics. You know the sound...the one that sounds like Ribena Berries that have inhaled laughing gas.

[Snadger]

Bloke at the lottie asked if I had any aubergine plants and if not did I want a couple of seedlings. Off I toddles along to his plot expecting a small seedling.
Came back with two plants about 18 inches high and full of flower. Smashing plants but only in 5 inch pots. Managed to find a space in my already bulging greenhouse & will pot them on when I get a bit of time.

[sewer rat]

I have 5 aubergines in my tunnel, all have a fair number of flowers on them - will try the misting tip if there are no baby fruits visible by the weekend. The plants are big and healthy this year - last time I grew them they got eaten by earwigs and were very slow to get going again but I did get some decent fruits from them, so really hopeful this year. There is a piccie of them on my Dave The Gardener Blog, July polytunnel update if you wanna have a looksee.
I also have three growing in 5 litre pots in the greenhouse of the garden I was at today and they have just started to flower - the flowers haven't opened yet but are on the point of doing so.

[northepaul]

I have aubergines!!!
3 small ones on 2 plants...!!
2nd year luck??!!

[gojiberry]

Plenty of flowers on mine but no fruit yet, will try the misting and see if it helps. Anyone growing the African type, they are even slower growing than the normal ones and no sign of flowers on them.

Ian

[Kiwi_Soph]

Do aubergines do better when they are a bit pot bound?

I bought a seedling a few months ago and after reading about them I popped it into a large-ish pot. I had a bit of new growth but nothing spectacular and then it started looking sickly - all the leaves went an alarming lime green and began to die slowly.

Anywat, I needed the pot for my squash so I dug it out - the roots were still all close and shaped as they had been in their original pot but it was still alive so in it went to the small pot. Three days later and the leaves have started going back to their original soft green colour; there is new growth and even flower buds! It is the same compost, same watering schedule, it is just pot size that has changed.

Will be very surprised if I get anything auberginey from it but we will see.

[chris]

Mine are in 7" Pots with that thought too...

[Florence Fennel]

So are mine Chris, but I swear they haven't grown at all in the last month. This is one plant I don't think I'll be bothering with next year, I could use the space they take up.

[chris]

I'm having similar thoughts.. tried again this year as I grew a load outside last year, and they all flowered. I thought that by growing them in a greenhouse the extra heat would speed them up a bit!

I've got some seeds left still, so will use them up then probably not buy anymore (though, no doubt in my 'final' year with them they'll all fruit ).

[Florence Fennel]

I'm hoping that's the case here, that they suddenly shoot up, flower and produce beautiful fruit. In fact I might go and tell them that if they don't, I'm not growing them anymore and see if that has any effect