Coqueret de Peru

created by Reesii at 28.02.2025

Features

Location

Greenhouse

Bed

Outdoor

Raised bed

Warm location

sheltered from the wind

Season Overview

Propagating

Planting

Harvest

Description

Physalis `Coqueret du Pérou' produces small, very tasty and vitamin-rich fruits for eating raw and for making jam. It is a bushy growing plant and grows to a height of around 70 cm. Seed discs simplify cultivation in pots, as the organic seeds are already evenly distributed in the rapidly degradable seed paper for sowing. You only need 3 pots with a diameter of at least 10 cm, fill them with soil and place the seed discs on top. Cover them thinly, about 1 cm, with soil and water. When the plants are a little bigger, each physalis should have its own pot or place in a bed. Physalis are sensitive to frost, but can overwinter very well when pruned and in a pot...

Non hybrid

Not frost resistant

Growing tips

Sowing begins at the end of January in a warm and bright place. Temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius are ideal. Physalis are light germinators, but also grow quite well underground. The seedlings grow slowly at first and must be kept moist at all times. They can then be pricked out after 3 weeks. The physalis can then be planted outdoors after the Ice Saints. The shrub will set fruit around three to four months after sowing. It is advisable to "plant" a support at the same time. You can recognize ripe fruit by the brown discoloured and dried out husk. If you already have a physalis in the garden, you can cut off your own cuttings for next year after the harvest. These should grow from a leaf axil and be around 10 cm long. Then simply plant them in a pot. Place the cuttings in a bright and warm place over the winter. Another option is to sow them directly into your garden when they are harvested. To do this, crush the fruit between your fingers. Drop them in a suitable location. Do you want to overwinter your physalis? Then I recommend planting them directly in a tub. Before the first frost arrives, place them in a frost-free spot - preferably in a greenhouse or foil tunnel. Pruning in the fall ensures a bushy, branchy plant.