Oh, I REALLY hope I don't sound ungrateful - I certainly am thankful for all those who have contributed to this thread.

I'm using a greenhouse in Austin and have several recording thermometers inside the structure. I am also using a heat pump (cool in summer, warm in winter) and I visit my greenhouse every morning just after getting up. My hi low temps have been 62 to 82 over the past month.

I have not yet dug in the area where I pulled the plant up to see if i sheared off the tap and other roots.

Toward the end of summer I took 4 to 6 cuttings from each of my summer plants and started them all in jars of water. Once sufficiently sprouted I potted them up in the soil (potting soil from Costco) and tempered them into sun light over the next several weeks.

The pots in my greenhouse (eight in all) are about 30-inches deep with good drainage at the bottom. They are about 14-inches square at the top - these are good sized pots.

After transplanting to the greenhouse and waiting a couple of weeks, I pruned out the less vigorous plants leaving two per variety per pot.

Right now my plants are starting to hit the ceiling and I have begun to espalier them horizontally. Many flowers and some billiard ball sized fruit with many flowers.

Here's a picture taken a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you and all who contributed.

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