Thank you for this very informative and educational video. I just received some seascape bare root strawberries and I'm excited for my first crop next year.
my friend, you gave me exactly what I needed to hear. I settled on seascape, albion and charlotte which are exactly the ones you mentioned. I understand better now why these three are chosen for my growing region. I am actually growing them in gutters too. It sounds like you have to continually replant them as a commercial grower. As a home gardener, I find that leaving them in place makes them much stronger in the following year and allows them to produce even earlier. Thanks for the video!
My bare roots deff died. 😔. At least I got some going. I've been searching on how do u kno wen they die and get nothing. So far ur the only 1 who mentioned about it. Thank you. Very informative. ❤️❤️
Thank you! Lots of people want to grow strawberries and very little good info out there specially on varieties so I figured it was time to straighten things out 😁
@@ThePlantCharmer thank you for your dedication, here is a clip form an otherwise big youtuber who seemed to be more interested in bullying people who propagated strawberries instead of actually supporting people ua-cam.com/video/LXYe4os3jGY/v-deo.html delete this message after you see it, I'll come back and remove it if it's here later.
WOW!! You just gave me a great education. This will be my first attempt at growing strawberry's. Thank you, thank you thank you soooo much!!! I just became a new subscriber.
Last year we germinated strawberry seeds from every strawberry we ate, and the first batch is well established and about twenty plants out of a few hundred have made strawberries. All the plants are running like crazy, which I'm clipping, as we have enough plants and we want to keep growing them from seed after crossing them. The first batch of strawberries from the garden is varying amounts of sour, which says the plants are trying to acidify the soil to their liking. We also got a few plants with red flowers and a few with white berries, to see how cross pollinating affects the new plants.
It’s amazing that you are growing them from seed and doing plant selection! The acidity however usually comes from the fruit ripening too quickly and thus not having time to accumulate sugar in the fruits.
yeah, these strawberries did seem to have a short turnaround time. We recently had some amazingly sweet strawberries, which we'll try to germinate as well, but it seems that the strawberry plants themselves are doing all the selecting so far. We mostly hope to establish enough diversity in plants so the entire patch doesn't collapse again all at once like the last one did, and if we inadvertently breed s patch of interesting looking plants then that would be amazing~
OK, /wow/ - I'm not a noob (I'm an advisor at a cool ag-tech venture and have my own small hydroponic auto-dosing greenhouse - with among other things strawberries) -- but that was one of THE best, most succinct, "let's clear it all up" explanations I've ever found on the 3 photo types - even though I've pretty much got it, I still learned rather a lot in the details! So question: I want to grow (straw)berries in my little GH, and can control the photoperiod, mostly the temp, year-round (I'm in the SanFran Bay Area). So I'm pretty sure I should be on day-neutrals, right now I started with Quinault and believe it or not "Gasana" - to test out the hydro system (and they love it). But: what can I try that's more interesting than just Albion/Seascape etc.? I don't at all want huge uniform marketable fruits, with high brix - I want yummy, with great flavor, even if they're smaller (and I'm also planting some vesca-type aka alpine/woodland strawberry, that grows wild in my yard and also from seed, but never-mind). So: what would you plant FOR YOURSELF to eat, if you wanted to eat strawberries year-round, and were stranded in your snowed-in winter cabin but had a pretty good total hydroponic system? >;-)
Thank you so much for your good words! Way too much bad or incomplete info on strawberry growing out there and I think we collectively need to up our game as strawberry growers! Day neutral plants that I grow for my personal stash include Charlotte and Mara Des Bois and, both much closer to the woodland strawberry than the more commercial varieties. These varieties produce smaller but very aromatic berries. Perfect for growing in rain gutters!
@@ThePlantCharmer Thanks SO much - and since pinging you, funny, but I'd also bookmarked Mara des Bois (even though it's a patented variety which I'd rather not do, but hey, just noticed it expired in 2011!. And Missou extension says: "By reputation, 'Mara des Bois' has the best flavor and fragrance of any strawberry currently in cultivation. Unfortunately, picked berries have a shelf life of only 5 days which is fine for home production or for local sales, but way too short a time for commercial production and shipment." - so: *exactly* what I want: (a) really tasty, (b) can't be found in stores, (c) day-neutral great producer. :-), and another website called them "unstoppable" producers. I'm also putting in Eversweets, apparently a popular Florida choice, as they'll go well in over 100°F temps, do cone-shaped berries (which I prefer), continuous production, etc., will see how that goes. And I'll see how the Gasanas go just for fun - plus the alpines from my yard and from seed. I LOVE what you said about upping our game: I feel like the early days of pot growers, only it's not illegal, so, not stealthy or anything, so ... like .... why aren't people DOING this? I guess there's not a TON of profit in it - it's not exactly Pineapple Express kush or whatever it'd be hip to say :-) - but there should be good knowledge, and good varieties, for hydro-berries.... I would be HAPPY to collaborate with anyone on moving sophisticated hydro strawberry production forward with the same drive people have given to, say, cannabis -- or even a tenth that, sheesh! - we could make AMAZING berries, compared to what they've done in that area, no? :-)
I think the last few years has seem amazing levels of research and innovation in the strawberry growing world and I think there’s still a lot of room for improvement. I like your reference about the early days of cannabis, fruit and veg are becoming more and more valuable and that’s driving interest up across the spectrum. As you also realized, berries that don’t travel are the best because the reason that they don’t travel is they produce too much sugar which accelerates decay. Who cares about transport when you’re just trying to eat a great strawberry so yes Mara Des Bois and the likes are awesome in the garden. They are heavy producers as well if grown in the right conditions. I’m always more than happy to collaborate on improving anything strawberry for sure, let me know if you have specific areas you’d like to work on!
For indoor hydroponics would a day neutral be best? Would be using individual small buckets, about a liter of water per. And in that situation where the temp of the room is going to be between 60 and 70 F all year will they continue bearing fruit in intervals all year round?
Awesome! I get mine from Lareault Nursery in Lavaltrie Quebec they also ship Canada wide! Speak with Frederic Laforge Tell him Khaled from ingenius farms sent ya!
Strawberries are a cool weather crop...you could grow them in Africa but they will never be as tasty as grown in a cooler place. They would grow though.
@@ThePlantCharmer I was trying little strawberries in Congo in Africa it was very special and after I was want to know about strawberries so I decided to go to England to work professional in one farm in Chichester in Gross farm ...you work nice way but you can have much more harvest and more fast ...
@@ThePlantCharmer I was trying little strawberries in Congo in Africa it was very special and after I was want to know about strawberries so I decided to go to England to work professional in one farm in Chichester in Gross farm ...you work nice way but you can have much more harvest and more fast ...
Veseys, burpee and Johnny seeds have them you can order them online. I’ve also seen some on Amazon but can’t confirm those will be good quality plants.
They may not refer to them as day neutral by the way but by the name you can tell with a quick google search however your best bets for day neutral plants are Albion and Seascape they are very common and great plants to grow.
Hello! Your gutter method is exactly what I’m looking for and I agree all spots should be full, haha. What do you do with the plants at the end of the year. Toss and get new? I’m in zone 7a and would like to grow in an unheated high tunnel year round. I’d appreciate your advice. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment! Yes i do throw them out each year simply because day neutral varieties perform better this way but they would probably survive the winter with no special attention in zone 7 lucky you!
Hi, Very informative video! If you throw out plants at the end of each season how do you produce your bare root crowns to plant the following year? I want to avoid buying new crowns or growing from seed every year. Thanks!
Thank you for this very informative and educational video. I just received some seascape bare root strawberries and I'm excited for my first crop next year.
So much knowledge! Thanks a lot for the in depth info! Much appreciated. Truly the strawberry wizard
my friend, you gave me exactly what I needed to hear. I settled on seascape, albion and charlotte which are exactly the ones you mentioned. I understand better now why these three are chosen for my growing region. I am actually growing them in gutters too. It sounds like you have to continually replant them as a commercial grower. As a home gardener, I find that leaving them in place makes them much stronger in the following year and allows them to produce even earlier. Thanks for the video!
Starting my first strawberry bed. Thanks for all the info. 🙏🏼 for success!!
Lots of great information
My bare roots deff died. 😔. At least I got some going. I've been searching on how do u kno wen they die and get nothing. So far ur the only 1 who mentioned about it. Thank you. Very informative. ❤️❤️
The most informative video on strawberries. Thank you!
Thank you! Lots of people want to grow strawberries and very little good info out there specially on varieties so I figured it was time to straighten things out 😁
@@ThePlantCharmer thank you for your dedication, here is a clip form an otherwise big youtuber who seemed to be more interested in bullying people who propagated strawberries instead of actually supporting people ua-cam.com/video/LXYe4os3jGY/v-deo.html delete this message after you see it, I'll come back and remove it if it's here later.
WOW!! You just gave me a great education. This will be my first attempt at growing strawberry's. Thank you, thank you thank you soooo much!!! I just became a new subscriber.
Your videos are very informative. Thank you!
Thank you for the good info
Last year we germinated strawberry seeds from every strawberry we ate, and the first batch is well established and about twenty plants out of a few hundred have made strawberries. All the plants are running like crazy, which I'm clipping, as we have enough plants and we want to keep growing them from seed after crossing them. The first batch of strawberries from the garden is varying amounts of sour, which says the plants are trying to acidify the soil to their liking. We also got a few plants with red flowers and a few with white berries, to see how cross pollinating affects the new plants.
It’s amazing that you are growing them from seed and doing plant selection! The acidity however usually comes from the fruit ripening too quickly and thus not having time to accumulate sugar in the fruits.
yeah, these strawberries did seem to have a short turnaround time. We recently had some amazingly sweet strawberries, which we'll try to germinate as well, but it seems that the strawberry plants themselves are doing all the selecting so far. We mostly hope to establish enough diversity in plants so the entire patch doesn't collapse again all at once like the last one did, and if we inadvertently breed s patch of interesting looking plants then that would be amazing~
Good job. Lots of information
Albion and seascape are great but i dont get the hype about charlotte, they lack fruityness to me lol, but they are sweet though.
Awesome! Thanks!
thank you
If you can get them. Oregon Hoods. Blows other strawberries out of the water.
I'm always on the look out for good strawberry varieties and online info says oregon hood is sweet and juicy..I'll keep my eyes open for these!
Good job on this video!
Thank you glad you enjoyed it!
OK, /wow/ - I'm not a noob (I'm an advisor at a cool ag-tech venture and have my own small hydroponic auto-dosing greenhouse - with among other things strawberries) -- but that was one of THE best, most succinct, "let's clear it all up" explanations I've ever found on the 3 photo types - even though I've pretty much got it, I still learned rather a lot in the details! So question: I want to grow (straw)berries in my little GH, and can control the photoperiod, mostly the temp, year-round (I'm in the SanFran Bay Area). So I'm pretty sure I should be on day-neutrals, right now I started with Quinault and believe it or not "Gasana" - to test out the hydro system (and they love it). But: what can I try that's more interesting than just Albion/Seascape etc.? I don't at all want huge uniform marketable fruits, with high brix - I want yummy, with great flavor, even if they're smaller (and I'm also planting some vesca-type aka alpine/woodland strawberry, that grows wild in my yard and also from seed, but never-mind).
So: what would you plant FOR YOURSELF to eat, if you wanted to eat strawberries year-round, and were stranded in your snowed-in winter cabin but had a pretty good total hydroponic system? >;-)
Thank you so much for your good words! Way too much bad or incomplete info on strawberry growing out there and I think we collectively need to up our game as strawberry growers! Day neutral plants that I grow for my personal stash include Charlotte and Mara Des Bois and, both much closer to the woodland strawberry than the more commercial varieties. These varieties produce smaller but very aromatic berries. Perfect for growing in rain gutters!
@@ThePlantCharmer Thanks SO much - and since pinging you, funny, but I'd also bookmarked Mara des Bois (even though it's a patented variety which I'd rather not do, but hey, just noticed it expired in 2011!. And Missou extension says: "By reputation, 'Mara des Bois' has the best flavor and fragrance of any strawberry currently in cultivation. Unfortunately, picked berries have a shelf life of only 5 days which is fine for home production or for local sales, but way too short a time for commercial production and shipment." - so: *exactly* what I want: (a) really tasty, (b) can't be found in stores, (c) day-neutral great producer. :-), and another website called them "unstoppable" producers. I'm also putting in Eversweets, apparently a popular Florida choice, as they'll go well in over 100°F temps, do cone-shaped berries (which I prefer), continuous production, etc., will see how that goes. And I'll see how the Gasanas go just for fun - plus the alpines from my yard and from seed.
I LOVE what you said about upping our game: I feel like the early days of pot growers, only it's not illegal, so, not stealthy or anything, so ... like .... why aren't people DOING this? I guess there's not a TON of profit in it - it's not exactly Pineapple Express kush or whatever it'd be hip to say :-) - but there should be good knowledge, and good varieties, for hydro-berries....
I would be HAPPY to collaborate with anyone on moving sophisticated hydro strawberry production forward with the same drive people have given to, say, cannabis -- or even a tenth that, sheesh! - we could make AMAZING berries, compared to what they've done in that area, no? :-)
I think the last few years has seem amazing levels of research and innovation in the strawberry growing world and I think there’s still a lot of room for improvement. I like your reference about the early days of cannabis, fruit and veg are becoming more and more valuable and that’s driving interest up across the spectrum.
As you also realized, berries that don’t travel are the best because the reason that they don’t travel is they produce too much sugar which accelerates decay. Who cares about transport when you’re just trying to eat a great strawberry so yes Mara Des Bois and the likes are awesome in the garden. They are heavy producers as well if grown in the right conditions.
I’m always more than happy to collaborate on improving anything strawberry for sure, let me know if you have specific areas you’d like to work on!
So what's the best soil mix for barefoot in rain gutters?
Thanks for sharing the information! Can i plant June bearing varieties in the holes of cinder blocks?
You totally could yes, cinder blocks are open at the bottom and porous so it would work
For indoor hydroponics would a day neutral be best? Would be using individual small buckets, about a liter of water per. And in that situation where the temp of the room is going to be between 60 and 70 F all year will they continue bearing fruit in intervals all year round?
Sir could you please tell me what type of strawberry grow best in planting zone 12!!!
Subscribed! Thanks! Where do you get your strawberry plants? Im in Ontario
Awesome! I get mine from Lareault Nursery in Lavaltrie Quebec they also ship Canada wide! Speak with Frederic Laforge Tell him Khaled from ingenius farms sent ya!
What about alpine?
What you think about strawberries in tropical weather like in Congo in Africa?
Strawberries are a cool weather crop...you could grow them in Africa but they will never be as tasty as grown in a cooler place. They would grow though.
@@ThePlantCharmer I was trying little strawberries in Congo in Africa it was very special and after I was want to know about strawberries so I decided to go to England to work professional in one farm in Chichester in Gross farm ...you work nice way but you can have much more harvest and more fast ...
@@ThePlantCharmer I was trying little strawberries in Congo in Africa it was very special and after I was want to know about strawberries so I decided to go to England to work professional in one farm in Chichester in Gross farm ...you work nice way but you can have much more harvest and more fast ...
Please advice from where I may buy strawberry bear roots .thanks
Can you send me information on your gutter system
What are the breeds you are planting? Thanks in advance!
I mainly grow seascape, Albion and charlotte
New subscriber. West Africa, the Gambia
Welcome to the channel my african brother!
I have never seen any of the day neutral varieties in the nursery here in the Phoenix AZ area. Where would I order these from?
Veseys, burpee and Johnny seeds have them you can order them online. I’ve also seen some on Amazon but can’t confirm those will be good quality plants.
They may not refer to them as day neutral by the way but by the name you can tell with a quick google search however your best bets for day neutral plants are Albion and Seascape they are very common and great plants to grow.
@@ThePlantCharmer nourse farms or indiana berry & plant co.
Am new in your channel .am from India in kashmir.please suggest me big size fruits variety of strawberry plants.
new subscriber
Welcome to the channel!
Good video thanks
Hello! Your gutter method is exactly what I’m looking for and I agree all spots should be full, haha. What do you do with the plants at the end of the year. Toss and get new? I’m in zone 7a and would like to grow in an unheated high tunnel year round. I’d appreciate your advice. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment! Yes i do throw them out each year simply because day neutral varieties perform better this way but they would probably survive the winter with no special attention in zone 7 lucky you!
@@ThePlantCharmer I’m going to give it a try! I’ll let you know.
Hi,
Very informative video!
If you throw out plants at the end of each season how do you produce your bare root crowns to plant the following year? I want to avoid buying new crowns or growing from seed every year.
Thanks!
California produced ...yes. Beautiful strawberries .... yes. Taste like S^%*t ... sadly ... yes. That is why I grow my own now.