{"id":1142,"date":"2016-12-24T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:35:41","slug":"solanum-winter-cherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/solanum-winter-cherry\/","title":{"rendered":"Solanum Winter Cherry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/solanum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1143 aligncenter\" title=\"solanum\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/solanum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/solanum.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/solanum-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the season for houseplants and this Solanum capsicastrum was raised from seed probably in a Dutch hothouse for the UK&#8217;s pre Christmas market.<\/p>\n<h3>What to do with your Winter Cherry<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Like most Solanums related to the nightshades these attractive berries are<strong> poisonous. <\/strong>Do not confuse them withthe edible\u00c2\u00a0 Cape Gooseberries &#8211; Physalis peruviana that looks similar.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Keep the plants in good light or the berries\/fruit will fall off and leave the plant bare<\/li>\n<li>If your plant is in flower with insignificant white blossom mist spray to encourage the fruit to set. The green berries will then turn orange-red<\/li>\n<li>Keep the plants moist and regularly fed and the berries will remain for many months<\/li>\n<li>Compost the plant when the berries drop &#8211; they are not worth saving<\/li>\n<li>Other common names include Jerusalem Cherry or pseudocapsicum but they are not related to Cherry or Peppers<\/li>\n<li>Do not confuse with Indian winter cherry known as Indian Ginseng<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cape Gooseberries Physalis peruviana below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17982\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/New-Picture-194x300.bmp\" alt=\"new-picture\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/New-Picture-194x300.bmp 194w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/New-Picture.bmp 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the season for houseplants and this Solanum capsicastrum was raised from seed probably in a Dutch hothouse for the UK&#8217;s pre Christmas market. What to do with your Winter Cherry Like most Solanums related to the nightshades these attractive berries are poisonous. Do not confuse them withthe edible\u00c2\u00a0 Cape Gooseberries &#8211; Physalis peruviana that looks similar. Keep the plants in good light or the berries\/fruit will fall off and leave the plant bare If your plant is in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/solanum-winter-cherry\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[90,89,91],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants","tag-cherry","tag-solanum","tag-tomato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}