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Physalis - when can I harvest
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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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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.
In the sticks near Peterborough
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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looked them up. they're tender perennials.
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There ia an ornamental one that is hardy and spreads like the clappers. Looks the
same but the fruit isn't edble.
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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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.
I think I have the ornamental one
Then count yourself lucky Waterbutts lol I wouldn't mind a rampant one if I could eat it!
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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a photo of your plants is needed wb
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wb mine look more like Tony's than the ones in my link but they came from a packet called Physalis edulis
In the sticks near Peterborough