Looking for As Many Different Types Of Strawberries

[medmaker420]

I have just helped my friend setup his garden outside with tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and a ton of other great stuff. I can't handle not doing that myself AND I wanted to get a few different strawberry plants if possible and wanted to see what others thought were the best to go for as well as what varieties to check out.

I looked around and we have ZERO strawberry seeds anywhere, do they sell them locally? I can find every other seed I want EXCEPT strawberries???? I can find the plants but not the seeds. Wondering if there is some reason for that.

any strawberry suggestion help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest129216]

I'm no expert, but I have a small strawberryfield (4x2 meter). I've never heard about strawberryseeds, although I am sure they excist....

I got Cuttings from a neighbour a few years back. Strawberries produces cuttings like crazy, so if you know someone with some plants you will probably get some. You can also buy them at gardencenters already in soil.

If you get cuttings from a friend though, you just put them in water for a couple of weeks. Then you transplant them into good soil. Put them in your window or outside(depends on your climate ofcourse) for a few weeks more. Then put them in your field.

This is not hard, and you don't have to take good care of them cause they'll survive "anything".

The first year you put them outside in soil they won't produce much berries, but the second year it will explode with beatiful red fresh and juicy strawberries.

Hobby growers should change their location every 6-7 years they say. Proffesionals change it every 3-4 years.

This is picture of some cuttings i took from my own field the other day. Gonna put them in soil and give them away to a friend.

Strawberries are great to have in your garden. Always good to have fresh strawberries when guests arrive.

Happy grows man.

A

 

[Guest129216]

I can find the plants but not the seeds.

Sorry didn't see that till after..... you probably just got some info you already knew...

 

[Sheriff Bart]

the strawberries you find in the store is known as Fragaria x ananassa. this is a hybrid of other Fragaria sp. Its seeds are not viable, and it must be propagated asexually (via the runners, as shown above)
You can find Fragaria sp. seeds, like the alpine strawberry, or other non-hybrid, or just fertile hybrid, strawberries. They are way different than what you would normally think of as a strawberry. some dont produce runners they are just a rosette. some have tiny but the most intensely flavorful fruits ever. theres a lot of variation, and thats mostly why you just find cultivated varieties. kind of like the apple.

mostly you only find plants because people have spent a long time selecting certain traits and propagating certain varieties because they are good, large fruits, productive, easy to maintain.

 

[s13sr20det]

im thinking of ordering some of these seeds

http://www.underwoodgardens.com/Alpine-Strawberry-White-Soul-Fragaria-vesca/productinfo/F1002/

 

[medmaker420]

great information and props to all who have pointed me in the right direction.

 

[PUFFS-ENUFF]

Look 4 plants marked everbearing....they produce all summer long

 

[s13sr20det]

i received bare root eversweet everbearing about a week and a half ago

http://gurneys.com/eversweet-everbearing-strawberry-/p/11061/

they are bred to withstand the heat we get in the south.

they're doing pretty well and i can see what looks like the beginning of flowers

last week

today

 

[fishheadbob]

i received bare root eversweet everbearing about a week and a half ago

http://gurneys.com/eversweet-everbearing-strawberry-/p/11061/

they are bred to withstand the heat we get in the south.



I normally go out of my way to trash Gurneys, but I have to admit those plants look swell. Good luck.

 

[medmaker420]

thank you all and by all means toss strawberry pics and or information within this thread. I am going to look around today and I think I am going to pick up that 2 bag system "s13" is running because that looks SWEET and damn inexpensive.

 

[s13sr20det]

i received bare root eversweet everbearing about a week and a half ago

http://gurneys.com/eversweet-everbearing-strawberry-/p/11061/

they are bred to withstand the heat we get in the south.



I normally go out of my way to trash Gurneys, but I have to admit those plants look swell. Good luck.

lol. thanks

they advertised 25 plants and i got 26, and they shipped pretty quickly. plus im on their mailing list so i got my order shipped for $1. i dont have any problem with them

thank you all and by all means toss strawberry pics and or information within this thread. I am going to look around today and I think I am going to pick up that 2 bag system "s13" is running because that looks SWEET and damn inexpensive.

cool
this is what i got. 4 bags w/ 10 planting holes for 5.56... looks like its currently sold out though
http://www.parkseed.com/gardening/s...101&SearchUnion=Y&CustSearchText=6514&x=0&y=0

they say to put a couple in the top, but i put some in separate containers instead

 

[Sheriff Bart]

i got the standard june bearing and ever bearing fragaria x ananassa but i also got some white alpine strawberries, fragaria vesca
will try to get some pics
the white alpine strawberries are INCREDIBLE, brushing the plant releases the most potent, heavenly strawberry fragrance, and the fruits are the same. they are small, but so goddamn strawberry-y!

 

[medmaker420]

i got the standard june bearing and ever bearing fragaria x ananassa but i also got some white alpine strawberries, fragaria vesca
will try to get some pics
the white alpine strawberries are INCREDIBLE, brushing the plant releases the most potent, heavenly strawberry fragrance, and the fruits are the same. they are small, but so goddamn strawberry-y!

those white alpines are the EXACT strawberries I have been trying to locate. they look like they are tasty

 

[Sheriff Bart]

not the prettiest atm, i just brought the plants outside from insider under my 600W HPS where the aphids were going nuts on them

 

[medmaker420]

yummy yum yum love that color of strawberry, just something different to try out

looking good and those aphids must be real bad this years because I keep hearing everyone (including myself) bitching about them and trying to deal with em.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

it was amazing i avoided the fuckin mites all winter indoors but the aphids nearly killed my tropical water lily and a bunch of other shit. and they seem to have become neem resistant. i have resorted to nicotine and isopropanol to kill the fuckers