Physalis

[evilpaul]

I ended up ripping my store bought seeded plant out. Every fruit was getting eaten by worms. Just husks with seeds.

[snarfing]

First successful ground cherry saplings! This one was “pineapple” what species does it look like

[resonanteye]

I’ve got every kind of ground cherry i guess- they come up here and there and vary on flavor. I planted the golden berry from store bought fruit and it has grown out over wintering in the greenhouse. this is one of the plants in ground

gb/physalis. tall as me

ground cherry, i propped it up a little with sticks:

no insect or pest pressure at all that i can tell. soon as the husk on those is yellow they taste sweet. unlike the ground cherry which must be dry husks, i can pick the Golden Berry ones sooner.

same shell color, different level of ripeness and sweetness.

they grow upright, like a tomato wants to. the ground cherries really do hug the ground. i may try to use more of those as ground cover in some places? they seem willing enough to grow and spread on their own.

[kinghat]

the berries are all dried out and white. i pulled a couple that were anyone know what might be going on with these first drops of longiflolia?

i pulled a couple that were brown but still hanging and the berry was still green:

they seem smaller than i expected but its my first experience with them

[randyks]

Usually half of mine are like that, probably that huskworm. I don’t spray them.

[sharq]

This could also be lack of proper pollination. A lot of Physalis are not self-fertile. Both my native ground cherries do this on about 70% and I only genetically have one plant of each. It could be pest pressure, but I haven’t noticed anything on the ones that look like that

[Professor_Porcupine]

@snarfing

This one was “pineapple” what species does it look like

This one is Physalis grisea (Small flowers, hairy leaves with purple petioles & yellow stamens), Seed sellers often incorrectly label Pineapple Cossak as Physalis pruinosa, when it’s actually Physalis grisea, so we’ve all been wrong ever since.

@kinghat

i pulled a couple that were brown but still hanging and the berry was still green:

I’ve seen this happen with some wild local Physalis longifolia as well, it’s usally with a problem plant (sometimes there’s a disease that effects them), perhaps that is why the calxy is dry but the fruit is still green.