I have multiple eggplants in pots inside my screens. They are all flowering, but none are producing actual eggplants. Am I missing something?
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Eggplants tend to spontaneously abort their first flowers. Some species do this on their first flowers to attract pollinators. The after a few weeks they will set fruit. Last time I grew eggplants it took 3 weeks from the first bloom until fruit set. That's also the time I found out I was highly allergic to it's sap.
Cucurbits will start male bloom and then abort all of the early female flowers before they open. It's an interesting biochemical mechanism.
I'm at that 3 week mark. Now I won't know if it's this, or the hand pollination....as long as I get fruit I guess