I've got 2 aubergine plants in the greenhouse. They are about 12-18" high, quite bushy with loads of flowers, but they just won't set!!
There are loads of bees and hoverflies in my greenhouse pollinating my tomatoes and peppers, so I can't work it out.
Has anyone got any tips!
Mine too are slow like that and they are outside! I can only think it is the weather. The peppers however are most successful: out of all those "tender" plants they seem to be the most adaptable and resistant.
I misted the flowers on my plants have two big juicy fruits in the conservatory but they have puckered bottoms probably down to poor watering regime.
Maybe we need to go over them with a small paintbrush? make sure they are being pollinated?
I love the aubergine flowers, they are among the most beautiful of the veg IMHO.
Quote from: antipodes on July 25, 2012, 10:39:21
Mine too are slow like that and they are outside! I can only think it is the weather. The peppers however are most successful: out of all those "tender" plants they seem to be the most adaptable and resistant.
Maybe it's just the weather. I might try the paint brush though. I have noticed that earwigs seem to like hiding in the new curly leaves. Will they do any harm?
Mine have been really slow but I've finally had a few start to set, hopefully a couple more too as loads of flowers, fingers crossed :)
After 4 years of never getting a flower to set I have given up on them this year
I've got loads of tomatoes and chillis in the greenhouse, but still not one bloomin aubergine, despite all the flowers.
Mine seem to set no problem despite a lack of insects. Mine are in a small plastic greenhouse crammed in with 4 tomato plants. It's hot and humid. I think that the humidity is very important in the past I tried to grow one plants on it's own without any success. Last year I got lots of fruit came first with a pair of aubergine s at our show. I'm not getting as many this year but the growing season hasn't suited them until recently. The slugs have eaten quite a few as they form...they seem to love them.
Mine were doing really well, big healthy plants, setting fruit. Then the leaves turned yellow and limp and keeled over. It isn't RS Mite... I've seen that before. Do they, as solanums get Blight?
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Anybody? :-\
Sorry David - no idea! I gave up on growing aubergines after having no success three years in a row. I just googled and found this though -
www.ecpa.eu/page/diseases
Tricia
Sorry, don't know, anything attacking the roots?
Well here are my 2012 Aubergines - I'm sure they are supposed to be bigger than this at this stage? ???
(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t453/female40ish/95b5ae99.jpg)
Debs, your pots look too small. My aubergines are in large growing bags and they have a huge root system. My tomatoes next to the aubergine got blight but didn't affect aubergines at all.
Absolutely agree with Kea on this.
I had a "glut" of aubergines - something I never would have imagined - but mine were in open ground inside the greenhouse - they were transplanted from pots that size in may ... the roots they have grown are huge - spreading about 3 feet from the plant stem in all directions.
I think if you were to grow them in containers - you need at least a 3 gallon pot to get any decent results from fruiting.
Cheers
Squeezy
Aubergines do seem a bit late this year-mine are just starting to swell-it`s my birthday this day next month so I hope I have some decent ones by then.
Mine flowered, then just sat there, big healthy plants.........they are now on the compost heap.
I lost patience! :BangHead:
How do I get rid of my extra post. Sorry posting from my phone usually goes wrong. :BangHead:
Sorry only just spotted this, I've moved your duplicate post :wave:
This is the 1st time I've ever grown aubergines. I have 6 plants and was over the moon to find 1 aubergine growing :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers:
Being a tropical /sub tropical plant, it is not surprising that Aubergines have not done well in the UK this year. For good growth, a day temperature of 25C -30C is required, with night temps of around 25C. They need condsiderably more heat/sunshine than Tomatoes or Pepper plants. They are greedy plants and when grown in containers or growbags, they need lot of feeding. The flowers, esp the first ones, are not attractive to bees, so hand pollination is required for good fruit set.
Saddad, Aubergines do get Potato Blight but may not be susceptible to the strains in the UK. There is a disease called Aubergine Blight which is caused by Phytophthora capsici. The plants are very susceptible to Verticillium spp. and Fusaruim spp. This causes the plants to wilt and die off due to death of roots. They also do not like wet feet when soil temeratures are low.
Seed variety is vitally important for growing in the UK. Probably the best is seed selections for European cropping, but even they would have struggled to fruit in a year like 2012.
For those who like Aubergines, I would say, keep trying a plant or two, one of these years you might stike lucky and get a few to eat !
Quote from: lisaparkin on September 26, 2012, 17:42:16
This is the 1st time I've ever grown aubergines. I have 6 plants and was over the moon to find 1 aubergine growing :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers:
Well done it's not been an easy year. I've not had many aubs set here :sad10:. The small patio types in pots have done best though :toothy10:
Grafted plant total zilch even though it had a prime spot!
Here's mine, with another growing on the left
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8461/8036509673_d445966bce.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/69855924@N08/8036509673/)
Photo1480 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/69855924@N08/8036509673/) by lisamarieparkin (http://www.flickr.com/people/69855924@N08/), on Flickr
That's a beaut! well done.
I have one tiny one which appeared after I turfed them out to under the hedge ready to take round to the allotment. I was a tad surprised as the worst growing condition imaginable for an aubergine and it finally sets fruit!