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Physalis - when can I harvest

Hi, I tried to grow this last year without a lot of luck, just a few short straggly plants but this year they are doing brilliant, have around 15 x3ft high stalks with between 3-5 lanterns on them, which are all green - do you know when they will change colour and can be harvested - they are in a cold greenhouse. thanks, Tony.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I'm expecting mine to go brown with an orange fruit as I've seen n the shops but it seems a slow process. Tomatoes are ripening round them and the physalis have looked the same for ages. It's my first try.



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    do they spread wb? I thought they were annuals. Mine are in pots so they won't take over the world



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    looked them up. they're tender perennials.



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  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    There ia an ornamental one that is hardy and spreads like the clappers. Looks the

    same but the fruit isn't edble.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I've got that one addict and until this year it has spread like mad. this year it's shrunk and hardly any flowers.

     



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  • LavandeLavande Posts: 171

    I was told to plant mine in a shadier area to slow down the spread and it seems to have worked.  I have a very shady area at the side of the house where I don't mind too much rampancy - although I have to rip out periwinkle every year - it's like a triffid.   I think it will be another couple of weeks at least before my physalis are orange but they are  a lovely shape at the moment. 

    addict wrote (see)

    There ia an ornamental one that is hardy and spreads like the clappers. Looks the same but the fruit isn't edble.

    I think I have the ornamental oneimage

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    Then count yourself lucky Waterbutts lol I wouldn't mind a rampant one if I could eat it!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    http://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/physalis-edulis/2407.html

    this is what I'm growing to eat and what I thought the original post was about

     

     

    http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/physalis-alkekengi-var-franchetii/classid.3446/

    this is chinese lanterns which i don't eat but maybe you can

     

     



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    a photo of your plants is needed wb



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    wb mine look more like Tony's than the ones in my link but they came from a packet called Physalis edulis



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