***UPDATE***
WOW. Sherbet berry flavor is DELIGHTFUL!
Someone asked me on another thread to report back in when I had tasted them (I forget who, and I forget what thread - maybe it was the Spring fruiting/flowering thread?). Unfortunately, I did not end up with nearly as many berries as I had flowers this first round, despite attempts at hand pollination, but I did get maybe 15 berries total. I have been waiting what seems like forever for them to ripen, but every day I check they have not even turned red yet. That is still true for most, but on closer inspection, I found one soft, dark purple berry ready to be picked today!
Wow, am blown away by the strong and complex flavor! It reminded me, for those who are familiar with this candy, of Watermelon Jolly Ranchers - but if that same strong flavor was made into a cotton candy. They had a melting quality when eating, like what cotton candy feels like. For one small little berry, about the size of a blueberry, there is a lot of flavor. For anyone who is a fan of fruity, tangy candy (particularly watermelon candy flavor), or sweet fruit in general , I can't imagine how you could ever get tired of eating these. Plus, they have tremendous medicinal benefits! Although checking for ripe berries might be tedious, since they do not ripen at the same time, I would still say that it would make sense to grow as many of these as possible. Mind, I keep mine bagged, and I do not know the invasive potential of falsa/sherbet berry, so be careful when exposing them to birds or otherwise letting seeds out of your control. But aside from that, they seem very easy to grow (at least in these conditions), and do not otherwise seem to have a downside.
Unfortunately, while they are wildly popular where they are indigenous, they do not ship or keep well, so it would be hard to enjoy them without growing your own. They only make it as far as local marketplaces, and for a short window, so are not viable apparently in the larger commercial fruit industry.
I am really looking forward to whenever the next single berry might be ripe. And I certainly hope, in time, that the plant will be able to hold a lot more fruit at one time. I think it was still getting established, so had to cut down on the berries for survival. I would be thrilled in future to at least have a handful to eat at a time.