{"id":4312,"date":"2016-04-17T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T08:39:40","slug":"physalis-indian-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"Physalis &#8220;Indian Strain&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Physalis which I&#8217;ve called &#8220;Indian Strain&#8221; is now going into its 7th year. I got \u00a0this from Seed Savers Exchange in the US. However, that one is supposed to be a tomatillo and I wonder if I mixed it up with another I got at about the same time, P. heterophylla, clammy ground cherry, although the stems are not clammy (sticky) to the feel. That would explain it&#8217;s hardiness as it is found in the wild north to Canada (see<a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/core\/profile?symbol=PHHEH3\">\u00a0http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/core\/profile?symbol=PHHEH3<\/a>). \u00a0I definitely planted heterophylla in the garden and it&#8217;s survived since 2009 without winter protection, but the summer is just too cold for fruit (it does flower).<\/p>\n<p>It lives in a cold bedroom all year and produces a few fruit most of the year, even continuing to ripen fruit despite the temperature being often under 10C. \u00a0The fruit are sweet and have good flavour. It&#8217;s not hugely productive but little bother (aphids don&#8217;t bother it). I cut it back when it gets too straggly. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2146\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2146<\/a>. Anyone visiting is welcome to to a cutting. I harvested a few this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1580217\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580217.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580215-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"P1580215\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580215-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1580215.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Physalis which I&#8217;ve called &#8220;Indian Strain&#8221; is now going into its 7th year. I got \u00a0this from Seed Savers Exchange in the US. However, that one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[1145,1146],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fruit","category-perennials","tag-physalis-heterophylla","tag-physalis-indian-strain"],"views":5869,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30640,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/30640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}