Thank you! Mine are starting to get going a little. Well some of them are anyway. Overall a low germination rate as compared to other things I grow on my grow rack. I would have started them much sooner had I known! Oh well hopefully they will turn out some nice berries. Glad to hear about the taste.
Drew
Here are some photos of them from mid July last Summer. Your plants should produce fruit and lots of runners by mid Summer.
Looks like a great bloom and berry set huh? Thank you for the pics Rich!
Drew
I planted these from seed in early summer. Until yesterday I assumed them to be pure alpine strawberry Rugen, but I just spotted runners! Alpine strawberries do not produce runners so I got pretty excited.
I had pollinated Rugen with local forest strawberries, both are fragaria vesca but distinct. Our wild ones do make runners and arent everbearing like Rugen. I didn’t emasculate so wasn’t expecting a lot of hybrids to pop up but in this container both plants have started spreading so they’re not Rugen.
The other option is that I may have tossed my remaining fragaria virginiana seeds (from quebec) in there as well thinking they were dead. It’s an exotic species to me so I’d like that too. Can anyone identify the species from leaves only? I havent seen a lot of f. virginiana but the plants do look a little unusual to my European eyes.
Here’s a picture. There’s a bunch of different species in there as well but you can see the stringy runners coming from the strawberries. Vesca or virginiana?
