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Physalis pruinosa
75Days to maturity
A seed worth growing
Goldie Organic Husk Cherry Seed
About this variety
Sweet golden berries in paper husks.
A tomato relative with 1/2–3/4" golden fruits inside papery husks, like tiny straw-colored lanterns. The taste is sweet with a wild edge, and children love them.
Plants branch heavily and bear a lot, dropping fruit as it ripens. Eat fresh, dry like raisins, freeze, or bake into jams, pies and desserts.
About 75 days from transplanting. Open-pollinated, certified organic seed.
Specs
- Packet: 40 seeds
- Average 40,000 seeds per oz.
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Quick Facts
Growing times vary with weather, soil and local conditions.
Growing guide
From seed to harvestPlant out late
1–2 weeks after tomatoes.
Some support helps
18–24" apart.
Gather fallen fruit
Golden, husks drying.
Growing Information
Scientific name
Physalis pruinosa
Culture
Grow it much like a tomato. Once settled in, it shrugs off drought, heat, cold and poor soil better than tomatoes do, and it does well in most of the US.
Starting indoors
Sow in 50-cell trays 6–7 weeks before planting out, or sow thickly in a flat and pot up. Keep moist; seedlings usually appear in 7–10 days, sometimes up to 14.
Planting out
After frost, about 1–2 weeks after your first tomatoes, 18–24" apart. Black plastic and row cover speed growth in cool areas.
Support
Low, sprawling plants do better with a little support, like determinate tomatoes. In containers, mulch under the plants and use a trellis that lifts them but keeps them open.
Harvest
Gather weekly, husks on, when fruit turns golden, the husk is partly dry and fruit drops or comes away easily. Collect clean fruit from the ground too.
Storage
Keep dry, in the husk: 1–2 weeks at room temperature, or 3–4 weeks at 41–50°F and 80–90% humidity. Avoid cold injury and ethylene.
Days to maturity
Counted from transplanting.
Packet
40 seeds.
Seeds per oz.
About 40,000 on average.
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