I would just wait. My cabbages and peas stalled until the weather cooled down. I'm sure it will be the same for the eggplant.

Kelly

Eggplant is finicky. Even though it can be transplanted into the ground when soil temps = 55 degrees, if often has flea beetle issues at those lower temperature and often stalls, especially if air temperatures cool.

You will see less stalling in warm-season crops like eggplant if you wait until soil temps are consistently staying at or above 70 degrees. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants all are related. Of the three of them, tomatoes tolerate cool soils the best and peppers tolerate them the least. Eggplant falls right in the middle, but in my garden, it is happier if I wait until the first week of May to plant it along with the peppers.

Considering the air and soil temperature fluctuations that our plants have been exposed to this spring, some plant stalling is not unexpected.

As Kelly mentioned, her peas and cabbage stalled because we had early hot temperatures, and mine did the same. During those early hot temps, the tomato plants grew very well in my garden, and I would think your eggplant would have been making good growth as well.

If the stall has just occurred in the last week or two (ever since it turned cooler and started raining, whenever that happened where you live), I think the stall should break with the high temps expected for the next few days. If it doesn't, your plants may have suffered root damage from the cool temperatures.

Eggplant also likes highly fertile soil and can stall if it is hungry, so it might have been in the ground long enough that it needs to be fed. Sometimes cool soil can prevent warm-season plants from taking up enough nutrients and a booster feeder of any water-soluable fertilizer, organic of synthetic in natuer, might help kick-start it back into growing well.

At our house we had April and May temps in March, then some March and April temps in late April and early May. It is maddening! However, the heat spell has arrived and I think that most of us will see the 90s the next few days, and some unlucky folks may see the 100s. If cool temperatures alone are what has caused your eggplant to stall, then I think it should correct itself shortly.