It does happen to me too. I think it's mostly about plant vigor, most OP eggplants just don't seem to have enough of that. I've seen in Japan that they drastically cut the plants somewhat low and this remakes part of that vigor (sometime in august).
My season is not long enough to try this. What I am trying this year is grafting, plants are already grafted mostly on solanum torvum, and one on (normal) tomato, and we'll see what that does to vigor.
Less fruits will get you bigger fruit but overall I would say less production in weight from what I noticed. And don't forget about water, they seem to love wet soil.
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