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Ground cherry &quot;Aunt Molly&quot;

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Maria starts with ...
Hi everybody!

Just wondering if anyone has any tips re: growing the above? I bought some seeds this year from Diggers and about 3 weeks ago sowed them into a mini greenhouse, hoping to get some seedlings.. It says on the packet that it's a tender annual which has to be sown into punnets in spring. Spring being this year what it was in Melbourne, I keep it in the house, warm, moist, etc... The problem is, so far I don't have a single one which has sprouted!!!! It says on the packet that the germination rate is about 78%, but there is not a single one! Any ideas? Suggestions? Appreciate your input very much...
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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Be patient, some more obscure members of the Solanaceae family seem to take longer to germinate. I've sowed tomatillo seed which is similar to ground cherries in Central Victoria in mid October and had a reasonable success rate. I planted some tamarillo seeds about three months ago and they are only just appearing now.
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Maria says...
Thank you! Today I had a look into the greenhouse and noticed that one (!!) seed has just sprouted.. I live in hope!!
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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Hopefully you'll get more to follow. Well done Maria.
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kert says...
Aunt Molly was a disappointment . The lady is a tramp. tasted like very small green tomatoes. I have come across some commercial varieties of cape gooseberry fruit for sale in Budapest that were good and will bring seed home . Incidentally Physallia seed is practcally impossible to miss germinating.
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Julie says...
Let us know when you are ready to share kert!
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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Interesting where obscure fruits turn up, it'd be great if we could add some diversity to the cape gooseberries available in this country. I have some of the "giant" seeds from Chiltern (UK) germinated, hope they taste ok.
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kert says...
Me too . Giant is looking good -big plant ,huge fruit and practically indestuctible I sourced it from the same place Incidentally there is an ornamental cape gooseberry with a vivid red envelope . I was too frightened to try as i was told it was purely an ornament
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amanda says...
Must admit - I would not bother with Ground cherry again. Cape Goosberry so much better. Palinka? rocket fuel 4 sure kert. A shot 1st up in the morning to beat the cold.. brrr..but - got a nice recipe for home made avokat from there...
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Brad says...
anything but unicum (I'm not sure how to spell it)
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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Kert you should try a few of the European stone fruit, especially local plums which we can't access in Australia. I imagine the markets in Budapest would be full of them at the moment. Maybe a few seeds could find there way here....
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kert says...
Oddly they seem to have the same fruits as us . I dont know what a Hungarian speaker makes of grapes called Golden Globe or peaches called Sunred ? I suppose it is like us and loquats called Nagasakiwase. As for plums there is only one available at present ---that looks like Angelina . Sadly they have large , beautiful Fragars and Elberta peaches that are pretty ordinary ,well short of my own of the same variety.The best grapes here come from Italy ...sigh.
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Lorna says...
The Cape Gooseberry (physalis peruviana) has a relative available from Phoenix Seeds called Cossack Pineapple (physalis Pruinosa) that is very tasty and like the name suggests, has a pineapple tang. It is my favourite of the physalis family by far. The berries are small, but make up for it in taste. It is as you seem to know, related to the Tomatillo (physalis ixocarpa) and the ornamental red chinese lanterns.
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TracyS says...
I did exactly the same with groundcherry seeds from Diggers this year. They took a month to sprout and only after I put the seedling tray on to a warming pad. I think the Melbourne Srping was a might too cool this year for them.
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Andreas says...
Is this a sprout from my cherry pit?
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amanda says...
Andreas - this is a thread on a type of Cape gooseberry...? Are u talking about a regular cherry here..?
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Nick T says...
That certainly looks like one Andreas, perhaps a photo when its a bit taller will help more. How did you go about germinating it? :)
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