Ray, w.r.t. your low fruit set on RP and it's dropping blossoms, could you observe the formation of it's flowers and monitor for the defects that Patrina listed in my thread on blossom drop. I'm curious if you're seeing those malformed blooms and if so whether any of them managed to set fruit. I'm finding that aiding pollination with a my wife's (currently unused -- forever so far as I know ) vibrating toothbrush has really helped with the Rosella Purple fruit set. I will say that while my RP plants set 1 or 2 fruits each at first, it took another month or two before they were pushing out a lot of flowers, so it may be that you just have to give that plant more time. Sadly, for me the time those first fruits had to hang before ripening must have deleteriously affected their flavor, or rather consistency. They were very mushy and tasted half-way on their way to fermenting. I plan to write up my first fruit harvest in Lakelady's winter grow-out thread.
Good luck!
Naysen
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