55-60 days. These shiny, deep purple Italian-type eggplants set fruit all season long. Fruit grow to a uniform 6-8 inches, but can be picked at an earlier stage for delicious baby eggplant; the healthy, upright plants will just keep 'em coming! Traviata has excelled through less-than-ideal seasonal conditions and even managed to grow past some heavy flea beetle pressure where other varieties struggled.