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Originally Posted by edwmax
These is too many variables not knowing your location. The plant being on a window sill indicates the pot is not big enough, get it in a 5 gal pot. Better, transplant to outside and get it one or two buddies. This plant gets about 5 ft tall as an average; and as tall as 8 ft. I believe the plant is self pollinating, but cross pollen from other like plants still helps. ... Once the plant gets happy, it will set fruit.
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Thanks for the reply!
Because I sowed them quite late during the year last year, plus the fact that they have been bunched up in a smaller pot for most of the time, they haven't grown that big yet. They are now 1 foot 'shrubs' with a large amount of foliage and new growth resulting from transplanting them to individual large pots and restarting with a generous fertilizer schedule after winter. That and their warm south facing location must be the reason they're also starting to bloom, so I assume they are quite happy now for the time being. I figure they can at least double in size before I would even need to reconsider larger pots.
Should I keep giving them general-purpose fertilizer while they are blooming, or cut back on that for now?