Ground Cherries Seeds for Planting - Non-GMO Heirloom Packet with Instructions to Plant an Outdoor Home Vegetable Garden - Mexican Husk Tomato - Endangered Variety (1)

I started these indoors 4/8 to be able to transplant outdoors end of June - I live in NY. Early May I took outdoors into a portable greenhouse. Water daily, seedlings started to emerge end of May. I had room for 3 plants , 1 went until a 2’ h x 2.5’w pot, others on north or south spots in a raised bed - full sun. 8/9 I started harvesting - just a few were yellow / mostly green berries ( do not eat green) letting then ripen with an apple and banana near by- very tasty- glad I took the chance to try something new. In the last photo the seedling are in the lower right corner- center is a tomato- kind of looked like basil when small - even the lanterns that look old almost whitish yellow had called to the ground had green unripe berries- 9/4- earlier harvest never ripened with multiple accelerators- so left reminder to ripen on plant best to leave until they fall off or the pouch pulls back and self exposes the berry

I see a lot of negative reviews regarding germination, so I’m sharing my experience. I started several seeds in one peat container indoor back in March. This is my first year trying out gardening so I had no idea what I was doing. The seeds germinated, slowly. For about two months they all grew to about 2 inches tall. I thought they were not going to make it. But I thought, what’s the worst that could happened. So I transferred the plants to a 5 gallons grow bag. I did not divide up the plants because they looked so fragile and I didn’t want to risk destroying the roots. For another 2-3 weeks they grew about another inch. At this point I thought I had failed and nothing will grow. Then we got a good amount of rain (in Texas) and they took off overnight! I didn’t even get a chance to separate them anymore so all 4-5 seeds ended up growing together in one grow bag. I think the plants like the heat and rain, but that’s my opinion. Pictures were taken on 06/10/25. The plants are doing very well, with lots of fruits growing. I have never had ground cherry before so I cannot comment on the taste, but I’m excited to try it. This was fun to grow and a learning experience for me as well.

I ordered these seeds in November so I was sure to have them for spring planting. Not one seed came up. I planted them in the same kind of containers and potting soil as I did my tomato seeds and not one germinated. All my tomato seeds came up. I contacted the seller and they never even got back with me. Amazon "closed" the return in January. How could I know the seeds were no good until I tried starting them in March? I will never buy seeds from them again.

Slow to germinate! It definitely takes a while to get them growing, this is my first time every having them and i definitely didn’t give them proper care but I have gotten 3 fruits off them and they where really good, I plan on doing much better next year and I can’t wait! They will be a fun healthy snack my grand daughter is going to love coming and collecting all the little fruits lol

Took a couple of tries but they grew last summer, didn’t really eat them though because forgot and was gone a lot, I hope they will come back on there own this year, that’s why I got them in the first place to add to my food forest and read that they re seeds itself.