[Success/Harvest] Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry (Aug 15, 2020)

Just you wait, I'm figuring out how to grow some things in a Sprout that you definitely won't expect!

(in all seriousness though, aside from having fun with gardening, one of the biggest reasons I garden is so that I can try foods that I otherwise would not be able to)

Trimmed it down to one seedling and added 2ml of CALiMAGic.

I hadn't tried growing anything with an air pump before, so I wanted to try it out when I grew my pepper.

(but the secret reason is that I'm too lazy to take the deck apart and clean it every time)

Slow but good progress.

They're related to tomatoes, but they're normally eaten as-is. The taste differs from person to person and from cultivar to cultivar - the most common description I've seen is normally some combination of pineapple, strawberry, mango and green grape.

Harvesting them is really easy - they form as round, green fruit inside of a paper husk. Once they're ripe, the husk and fruit falls to the ground, and you leave it out for another week or two for it to turn yellow.

I've never tasted or seen them before either, but I've seen some people get hundreds of them from their outdoor plant.

You would think

It looks very healthy. I am very curious about how it will develop the paper-enclosed fruit!

The first flower is open! Added 4ml of nutrients.

This one is under the leaves, near the base of the plant. If another one opens up in the light, I'll try to get a better picture.