Greetings, I find my rocotos set fruit sooner if planted in a smallish container. A 12" clay pot seems about perfect -- anything bigger and fruit set appears to be delayed. In any event, mine have yet to set any fruit before the summer solstice has passed -- maybe there is some kind of day length trigger? A 12" pot can produce a pretty decent crop despite its small size. My plant in a 5 gallon bucket last year had fewer fruits than the same variety in a 12 incher, and the same act is being played-out this year with several fruits set in the twelves and none/a few in the larger pots. (BTW I tried an 8" pot and it is just too small -- the leaves yellow and the poor beasts languish.) -joe (in Ottawa)