Rich: Many thanks for the info. on this. I now have celestial visions of spending the next hot Cumbrian summer (ha!) drinking long cooling swigs of quitoense-ade. The info. on soil conditions and feeding was particularly useful: thanks. No notion of flowering SIZE, I gather? Or average no. of yrs. from germination to...? Most solanums are quick so I'm guessing either next summer or (at worst) the summer after. Note the blithe assumption that the brute is even going to survive the Cumbrian winter. Tim Longville