I’m not sure about southern cali but or most june bearing since i only do everbearing with the exception of the new Denali variety that just came out. However, i do know that Cabrillo is from there i think?
The seeds pop out instead of staying pushed into the fruit, they’re pinkish and one plant was producing chimera ultra sweet fruit with a hint of acidity
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My current mix is 1/3 Blonde Peat, 1/3 Pine Fines, 1/3 Promix… with a heavy splash of DE for strawbs.
This stuff is the best that i have found… everything acid loving does very well with it (i know everyone says that it does nothing to soil acidity and maybe it doesnt)…but all my berries love it. (less weeds too).
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Good to know. I put in 3 new strawberry beds and added DTE acid mix to all of them along with coir and some leafgro, pine nugget, vermiculite, perlite and mycorrhizae. (They’re on a deck that gets scorching hot so I wanted to create a soil that wouldn’t dry out in 1 hour) I haven’t had the chance to test the pH yet, but I’m sure it’s still too high if you get good strawberries in a blueberry bed! Maybe I’ll amend with DTE acid a few times this year.
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Hello, I saw that you’ve moved to France. But do you happen to know if there is a source for Mariguette in the US by any chance? Thanks.
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Not that i know of. Garriguette one of the parents is very difficult to find if at all in the US. It is an excellent strawberry. It it currently in flower here and i will take pictures and it grows!
I was able to get Garriguette once but it somehow didn’t survive the second year so I didn’t try the second time. I heard good things about Mariguette so I just want to try it. Thank you.
Wait are alpines really unremarkable? That would be very sad because I just planted a big collection of them, hoping for more intense flavors. I have these that I planted relatively recently and I am hoping to report on the taste this year: Marshall Strawberry, 6 different alpines, a few different musk strawberries, a native woodland strawberry.
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To me at least. They’re just sour to me, flavorful sour and smell great, but not the best tasting in comparison to some of the newer stuff.
I’ve grown all of the ones i can get my hands on in the past.
Even tried growing them hydroponically too. I haven’t tried again since i threw them all out. They seem more prone to spider mites as well in my experience
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what are the ones that are white with red seeds? and are those only for looks as well?
White alpine varieties, don’t remember the exact names. Just remembered they’re not worth the effort 
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Wait, the one that’s half red and white? That’s my mutant Charlotte. That one was fruit roll up tasty lol
I removed the straw from my strawberry beds last week. I have Charlotte and Gurney’s Whopper. Just planted them last spring. Was hoping to get a decent crop this year.
Anyway, we had temperatures down to 28 and then 30 degrees for the last two nights and heavy frost this morning. I realized I forget to cover them back up. They have small leaves going but no blooms yet. Will they be okay?
Sandra
They should be. I didn’t cover up any of my strawberries this year at all and it got down to 11-15 degrees for a few nights earlier this year. They’re all great
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Oh well, I just hope they fruit this year then, so that I can sample and dump them if they are bad. To be honest I’ve never tried an alpine strawberry - when buying them, I was expecting something similar to musk strawberries that I grew up with or local native woodland strawberries. Both are a balance of sweet and sour but with an extremely intense flavor.
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Later this year, if you want any other varieties, feel free to let me know and stop by my place. I’ll be focusing on berries, grapes, fruit trees, and passion fruit this year vs the usual garden crops. Anything you want one of that i have, i can cut you out a start either this year or next
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ah nah. was thinking like these guys:
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Oh like the Florida pearl? I’m still waiting on my order from Gurneys. I had Pineberry but it only fruited twice a year and wasn’t remarkable in any way to me so they also don’t get their own beds. I may just stick them up front for the animals or put a few runners into the woods lol
I had some white alpines that did that but they were tiny and tasted just the same as all the other alpines that i had at the time
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Also those 10-25$ per strawberry-strawberry from Japan and South Korea? Not impressed.
Charlotte tastes better and is firmer. The expensive overseas ones are more softer and fragile like the alpines. Some were even not fully ripe yet and still very tangy with no sweetness