Are they still wild strawberries if I grew them in a pot? Or are they more like semi-feral strawberries? ðð
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AiricaFyresong@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 25d
Those look like mock strawberries. I've heard they don't taste too good.
Fermion@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 25d
They look like mock strawberries to me because the seeds project out rather than being in a dimple.
Mock strawberries taste very watery. Not necessarily gross, but not really desirable either.
tamal3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Kind of like watery foam
bjc@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 25d
vesca's seeds grow out, virginiania's are dimpled.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 25d
They look like wild California strawberries to me, which I've grown in the past and were sweet and delicious:
https://calscape.org/plant/1666/Fragaria-vesca-(Woodland-Strawberry)
bjc@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 25d
yah, mock strawberries, in my experience, don't get that big.
i've never had the vesca, but i grow virginiania, and while small, they are very delicious. vesca is very similar, from my understanding.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 25d
If they start peeing in a box and begging for food, then they're domesticated.
NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · 2 pts · 24d
@DarkCloud I'll keep an eye out for that ð
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · -1 pts · 25d
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Do you harass people then delete it as a tactic, or was something else happening here?
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app · 7 pts · 25d
Depends on what they do in their spare time.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 25d
I've got a volunteer strawberry plant exactly like this that just popped up in one of my pots. Really tasty little berries, too; I thought at first I had somehow ended up with an alpine strawberry, but I believe it's just a wild strawberry (as opposed to flavorless mock strawberries sometimes mistakenly called wild strawberries.) Been bearing fruit continuously for a few months, too. Currently trying to get some seeds to grow hydroponically, because I could go for this year round.
Edit: in researching, it seems like alpine strawberries may just be wild woodland strawberries in a fancier hat, so there may not be an appreciable distinction.
foliumcreations@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
We call them "Smultron" in Sweden and they are just what strawberries where before cultivation. My garden is full of them.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 24d
It depends. Do they come to you when you call them?
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Are they everbearing strawberries? I have a few of them. They produce really small ones like that but last all summer.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 25d
Is that a thing? How do they do indoors? I could go for a random strawberry throughout the year.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
I dont know honestly. Mine are outdoors.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
Berries gone wild! Watch these crazy wild berries bare it all.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
I've got about 2 acres of those. they grow to gumball sized every year.
they don't taste great, but not horrible either.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 25d
I don't even see straws in those berries.
MagnusIdode@defcon.social · 1 pts · 24d
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Honestly, looking at those makes me crave a taste! Strawberries aren't widely grown here in Nigeria anyway; they can pretty much only be grown up in Plateau State (Jos) where the weather is cooler. I'd love to try growing some in a pot too if I could.
cynblogger@sfba.social · -1 pts · 25d
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Tamed, & superbly delicious as nothing else is!
maartenketelaars_eu@mastodon.nl · -1 pts · 25d
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They still look wild to me ðĪŠ