Hello friends!
In today's video we will be seeing
How to grow the Giant Tomatillo
Now before we move on to this video of growing Giant Tomatillos
And if you've not already seen it, I'd like to remind you that
We've posted a video earlier
About growing Tomatillos
You can click on the link on your screen right now to watch this video
It gives a lot of insight on growing Tomatillos in general
So these are our tomatillo seeds from Robs Rare And Giant Seeds.com
And these seeds are really good
I've not bought from this dealer before but the seeds were of really good quality
So out of all these seed starting techniques that I've used
I think the most cost effective and easy solution is to use these seed pellets
What you basically do is just immerse them in water, let them expand to their full size
And then start planting the seeds in it
Remember to get the larger sized seed pellets
I'll provide a link in my video description as well
For yout o buy these seed pellets
And just make a little hole on the top
You don't need to really make a big hole
Just enough for the seeds to settle down
And then just drop in two seeds in each seed pellet
Now some people like putting 1 seed as well
But I wasn't sure about the germination rates for the seeds
SO I just went on the safe side and put two seeds
I anyways had a lot of seeds to use for this season
So once you've planted the seeds, don't forget to label the seeds
I think that's a common mistake that a lot of us do
So the seeds should germinate in about 7 days or so
But they need to be kept in a green house or indoors in a sunny location
For about 4 weeks
And now let's plant these int he ground as well as in containers
I usually spread out the plants both in containers and in the ground
And this is how it needs to go
It just needs to be that much deep
And since the roots have already started growing out of this pellet
I'm just going to plant it right in the ground
Just like that
The pellet cover will decompose over time
So you don't have to worry about it
So I've staked this tomatillo plant with the same stakes I've been using for my tomatoes
and eggplants
And its done a great job so far supporting all of these plants
So as the tomatillo plant grows, you gotta have a lot of nutrition provided for the plant
Especially Nitrogen in the earlier phases so you can use a lot of manure, compost
Or if you are using balanced fertilizers, all of them work pretty well
This is the other Tomatillo plant growing in a container
Now in the previous season, when I harvested Tomatillos
I learned that Tomatillo plants cannot pollinate their own flowers
Which means that it will pollinate but with flowers from other Tomatillo plants
Which means that you need to plant at least 2-3 Tomatillo plants
To get a decent fruit production
Now in my previous season, I did grow tomatillos, just one
And it did produce a lot of Tomatillos - I don't know how
But int his season and for this Tomatillo plant
I made sure that I planted at least 3 plants
So that there are sufficient flowers available for pollination
So as you can see we are now harvesting our giant tomatillos
And they are significantly larger than the tomatillos that are of regular size
And I think that growing giant tomatillos are
A better value for the space you are growing compared to the small tomatillos
Because although the plant doesn't produce a lot of tomatillos
The tomatillos that it produces are pretty big in size
So let's look at this tomatillo
This is one of the largest ones I got
And this is actually as big as a tomato or mayeb even a small green pepper
And these giant tomatillos are just as flavorful as the smaller tomatillos
And a lot easier to handle
So that's how our harvest looks like
It's very late in the season here
I actually started these plants very late
Ihope to start them sooner next season
But its a pretty decent harvest
And its definitely usable at least a few times if you get this kind of harvest let's say
every few days
So I hope you liked this video
Happy Gardening!