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It's my first time growing these and I have some sturdy looking specimens in the window propagator but one rather long and leggy individual that came up a week before the others. Can they be pricked out and planted deep like tomatoes or would they rot? Any advice on growing them gratefully received.

hello, I grew them about 3 years ago...yes you can plant deep like regular tomatoes.  As I remember tho, because I had mine in the g/house, I needed to hand-pollinate them. Grown outside, there's no probs, obv.

Thanks. I'm going to try a couple outside and a couple in the polytunnel, so I'll remember to pollinate them by hand.

My main advise concerning tomatilos is that they are very prolific, so don't worry about losing a plant if you have a few, just one or two plants will produce loads of fruit.

help please what is hand propagating. Im a beginner

Hiya, starter, welcome to the site  ;D
hand pollinating, hmmm..we use a paint brush, transfer pollen from one flower to the other, specially on melon and peach blossom  :)

Quote from: Miss Whiplash on March 15, 2009, 18:39:32
Hiya, starter, welcome to the site  ;D
hand pollinating, hmmm..we use a paint brush, transfer pollen from one flower to the other, specially on melon and peach blossom  :)

No need to move from one flower to another with tomatilos, the flowers are perfect and will pollinate themselves.

With all members of the Solanum genus, simply tapping the ripe flower will assist it in pollinating itself. I've never bothered with tomatilos, though, just one plant will produce more than I use.

 Welcome Starter, good luck with your growing ;D ;D.

Sorry I've been so long getting back to this.

I put the advice about hand-pollination after reading that I'd need to because I only had one tomatillo in the greenhouse along with other varieties.  The other was somewhere outside.I'd read that cross-pollination doesn't happen with these?

(In the event, I moved the g/house one outside, too...I'd no idea just how big they got - and I've only a 6x4 'house!!)

I love tomatillos but they're much too big to grow in my limited space in the garden plotties. Pity :'(  Good luck with yours - hope you get a good crop and enjoy them. :)