Unless you are saving seeds, you do not want ripe eggplant. Plants are usually smarter than I am, so I pretty much let them do thier own thing. Except when I am saving seed, or trying to grow a specimen fruit. That is an extraordinary set, but remember you can start eating them as soon as they are big enough for your purpses.

That's a lot of eggplants on each plant. You must be doing something right :-)

Agree with farmerdilla. If I let one old fruit go to seeds, the plant seem to stop bearing new fruit. I wouldn't know the limit because I never had one plant bearing so many fruits like yours (I ate them when they come along). But they may stop setting new fruits anyways when weather gets too hot or too cold then harvesting will not help new fruit.

You must be doing something right!!!

I'm fighting flea beetles, aphids, cabbage loopers constantly. A good week is when there is on fruit out of my 10 plants.