I threw some compost in a pot and a few days later lots of tomatoes, lettuce and Physalis started to germinate. I didn’t think much of it because I threw lots of tomatoes and Tomatillos in the compost pile, but I noticed that the Physalis looked a lot like Physalis longifolia(which was weird because I only threw Tomatillos in the compost). I have three seedlings and they have started growing true leaves
The first two have fleshy leaves that look a lot like ongifolia leaves with small hairs at the edge of the leaf(which Tomatillos completely lack). The first one also has deformed leaves. I don’t know if the third seedling is a hybrid as it has more Tomatilo like traits but it still doesnt fully look like a Tomatillo. I will continue to grow these out under a grow light so I can confirm that they are hybrids.
It wouldn’t be that strange that I got hybrids because I grew the Tomatillos right next to the Physalis longifolia plants and they are self incompatible. Additionally, Physalis longifolia will produce A LOT more pollen per flower than Tomatillo and I had more longifolia plants than Tomatillo(and longifolia also has more flowers). My hand pollination attempt between them failed, but that might have been because I only tried it on one flower and it was in the middle of the heatwave