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Originally Posted by carolyn137

This is the best article about tomatillos that I've had in my faves for a long time and have linked to it many times.

https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proc...90/V1-407.html

Maybe it might help.

Carolyn

Thanks for that link. Some takeaways:
- Water management. Tomatillos don't like too much water.
- All those flowers not on main branches and laterals won't set fruit. That explains some of the fruitlessness compared to number of flowers.
- They don't grow well below 65 degrees so an earlier start isn't wise without protection.
- "...the inflated calyx stops growing before the berry and is usually split by the expanding fruit." My fruit never filled the calyx to split it. Marble size even though they were supposed to be a large variety.
- They can be tissue-cultured but can a main branch with adventitious roots be layered (the damp peat moss/baggie thing), cut and grown as a new plant?