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Wanted: Pineapple Tomatillos/Ground Cherry and/or Sungold

14 years ago

Hi all.. this is my first season EVER trying to grow ANYTHING. I am a little apprehensive, and just hoping something can come to fruition.

I am looking for pineapple tomatillos or ground cherry. I may be wrong, but I think they are the same? I just need a few+ seeds to try. I live in Austin TX, so I am hoping that I am not too late to give them a whirl. I am also growing some black krim and yellow pear., and the purple de milpa tomatillo.

Anyone who has grown the pineapple and wishes to share their thoughts, please do so.

I can send a SASE. I have some packaged seeds, and some shrimp plant seeds that grow on my property already.

Thanks for your assistance and help!

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Comments (4)

Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
14 years ago
Hi blessed_garden,

Welcome to Garden Web and The Seed Exchange.

Please see addressing newbie and newer member issues for instructions on getting your Member Page email link set up so that you can easily be reached for trading. You will likely get more offers to trade if you will either list in your post, or better yet, on your Member Trade List, some of the seeds you have available for trading. The link above also explains how to set up your trade list.

hth.

chemocurl...aka Sue
blessed_garden
Original Author
14 years ago
Sue, thanks for the tip. I went and changed it.. I think.
I was excited that perhaps someone had some seeds... but alas.. not yet. ;-)
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reyna1
13 years ago
Blessed Garden,
I am in Austin as well.
There are at least 3 (if not alot more) types of tomatillo.
I am currently growing the purple tomatillo.
I do have seeds of the green tomatillo (which I do not believe is the same as the pineapple tomatillo).

Remember if you grow tomatillo, you need to have at least 2 plants growing in close proximity to one another as they do not self pollinate. I made the mistake of growing only one last year and it bloomed profusely however I never got any fruit out of it. I thought it was self pollinating like a tomato or pepper but I was wrong.

I believe I have a small amount of green tomatillo if you would like (very tiny amount), and if you are willing to wait the purple tomatillo once both are mature and producing fruit. I have one mature plant and another that is maybe a week or two behind it. The mature plant is blooming already, just waiting for the other plant to bloom as well.

The tomatillo is a very weak seedling when it starts off and you'll want to keep it away from wind, once it takes off it really grows fast but in the early stages as a seedling its very weak.

Let me know if you want the green tomatillo, or if you like you could wait for the purple tomatillo and email me later on in the summer (maybe mid-late june) to see if I have the purple tomatillo seeds by then.

Danny
l_james
13 years ago
I have the ground cherries Aunt Mollies Favorite. E-mail me and I'll get some to you for a sase.

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