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03 Jan 15, Roy (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hello Jan and Kirsten, Same problem, healthy plants which have grown well, I should have said "I had the same problem" until having taken one of the flowers off and rubbing that one into the stamens of other flowers and voila, fruit. in fact too many.

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06 Dec 14, Jan (Australia - temperate climate)

Hi Kirsten, did you get any answers to this question, I have the same problem. I purchased a grafted eggplant from Bunnings. same as I did last year but I had an abundance of eggplant last year. This year the flowers form then shrink and fall off. no eggplant behind them. Has anyone got any clues to this problem?

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25 Mar 14, Donald Chandraratna (Australia - arid climate)

Can I prune the old plants and wait for the next summer

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15 Mar 14, Phil (Australia - temperate climate)

Have picked 2 eggplants from my bushes once they turned purple but the remainder of the fruit have turned yellow and seem to be softening. Is this normal?

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22 Apr 14, Alpeshkumar Patel (Australia - temperate climate)

Turning yellow means they are now ripe. You can get seeds for next year from them.

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13 Mar 14, Shannon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My eggplants have a whitish coating over all the stems, that can be scraped off with a fingernail. The top leaves are curling and dying. Does anyone know what this could be? There are no insects on the plants. Thank you!

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26 Nov 14, Greg (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Whitish coating may simply be scale. Lime Sulfur (liquid) will do the job.

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04 Mar 14, Parm (Australia - temperate climate)

I plant eggplant late December. My eggplant got flower but not fruit. I see some bees and butterfly in my garden but still I try to do hand pollination. Mostly I use to water every day or other. I live in albany wa

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22 Jan 14, Kezia (Australia - temperate climate)

I planted an eggplant last year 2013 July. It has produced quite a lot of fruits since November, but what will happen to the plant from February onwards? The chart on this website about eggplant showing blank (no S or T sign) from February to July?

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21 Dec 13, Renate (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My eggplants are brownish colour not dark like the usual colour what is missing?

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