What area do you live in, if you don’t mind sharing the state? I’ve been trying to find these for months, but they aren’t at my home depot.
This are a certain strain of musk strawberries, Baker Creek sells them. Many mail order houses sell other musk strawberries, other cultivars. I have been growing them about 5 years. Maybe these are better as for musk you need male and female plants.
Dose anyone have any runners? it does not look like this veritiy is being sold in the US any more.
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There at Lowe’s right now.
These are musk strawberries and they are sold all over. They may not be this cultivar but they all taste the same. I grow three or four cultivars and they have slight differences they all have an alpine on crack taste. Grape like flavor. I think they are excellent. I like the Baker Creek nursery version that sells Scarlet. It is an excellent musk strawberry. If you can’t find this one try Scarlet. It is the most productive musk strawberry I have grown.
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I only have one Lowes near me and they sell garbage. How much did lowes want? I could sponcer some and receive them in the fall.
$12 for a 4 pack
isn’t this just a moschata sold under some marketing BS
Fragaria moschata Bazooka a selection from Fragaria moschata Capron Framboise, is supposed to have the most bubblegum taste.
They usually need a male around. (most moschata’s have 100% female flowers)
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I have found with musk strawberries that regular perfect flower strawberries pollenate them just fine. No need for males. Also no need to replace them. They are in general low producers but my eight year old plants are loaded with berries.
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Moose, put it back. Strawberries that taste like bubblegum are really bad. I grew a variety like it one summer. Worst tasting mistake I ever made. Went to the local berry patch to pick instead, only to find out they were growing the same variety. I think it was Tripoli.
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Bubblegum and Sastaberry are cultivars developed by berryworld out of the netherlands.
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Thanks lordkiwi.
How do you know this? I looked around on the website you linked. But could only find marketing stories and recipes. I could not find anything about breeding or their own cultivars.
If also looked in the Dutch variety register. And could not find breeders rights or a registration for either strawberry.
This makes me assume they are marketing a known (historical) variety. Probably a mochata as bubblegum. But i could be wrong.
I think berryWorld is more a marketing company?
There Netherlands pages mentions there breeding program. I think they are like Driscole in that we never truly know the ID of most of there cultivars.
i could not find breeding info on that page.
looking here
i read they use Edward Vinson for their breeding work.
His license page and cultivars page does not list any strawberry that looks like the Bubbleberry.
I stand by my original statement. I’m quite sure Bubbleberry is just a rebranded Fragaria moschata Bazooka a bublegum tasting selection of Fragaria moschata Capron Framboise.
I must say though. Edward Vinson made evie 2. And i quite like that strawberry
I agree. I’ve heard the name being used alongside musk strawberry. Similar to how haskaps are called honeyberries. Sells better I guess. I have one in the flowerbed but it’s just about to flower. Supposed to be very good tasting.
Is there a nursery selling these “bubbleberry” strawberries?
I haven’t seen that exact variety for sale except occasionally at Big Box Store. You would have to search for musk strawberry. Raintree sells some and so does @JohannsGarden.
You can also try some from seed-
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As a follow up on this- those strawberries actually turned out to be incredible- and the kids who try them can’t stop eating them and say it’s their favorite berry (probably because it tastes like a piece of candy). It seems like they only produce one crop, but they can stay on the plant for a long time and don’t easily rot / mold like regular strawberries do. The berries aren’t large and the plants get huge so that would be a downside.
My wife doesn’t care for them so she would probably agree with your assessment.
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Lol, that if funny, but true .