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| I have a few healthy looking Tomatillo plants with good looking large husks. Now that the fruit is ripening and starting to drop I am discovering that something isn't right.
This is my first year successfully fruiting tomatillos, and really frustrating that they aren't working. At the top of the fruit under the husk I find a little hole and directly inside is the shell from a little larva. It doesn't look like it has eaten much of the plant, just hung out inside to mature. There is no other sign of damage to the plant or fruit, but my tomatillos don't have seeds, just a bubbly looking hollow interior. Any help is appreciated. |
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- Posted by heathersgarden 6b/7a Mid TN (My Page) on Sun, Sep 16, 12 at 17:22
| I'd like to revive this thread, because I am having the exact same issues with half of my harvest. The purple tomatillos I'm growing at my home garden are normal, dense and full of flesh and seeds. The ones growing out at the community garden are each one as described in the original post. The flavor isn't very good either. At the very center is a tiny brown chrysalis where the critter matured. I haven't been able to find out which critter this is, or how to deter it in the future. But this CANNOT be a coincidence. |
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