Many owners of personal plots want to grow something on their plot that can surprise their neighbors. Until recently, one could not only surprise, but even frighten neighbors with purple bell peppers or black tomatoes. Today this task is much more difficult. The Internet has appeared in almost every home, and you won’t find any variety of vegetables and fruits in seed stores. Striped pink eggplants, white cucumbers, purple carrots… It looks like bragging about unusual fruits and vegetables is becoming a thing of the past. But sometimes, you just want to plant something interesting and unusual.
How can you surprise your neighbors and decorate your site? More and more often on the Internet there is a mention of blue strawberries. True, garden strawberries are usually grown in garden beds. Strawberries are rare in the garden and there is no fundamental difference between these plants. These are two species belonging to the same genus “strawberry”.
Wild strawberries are on the left, meadow strawberries are on the right.
Initially, green strawberries were called strawberries because of the spherical shape of the fruit.
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For consumers, there is not much difference whether strawberries or wild strawberries grow in the garden. For a gardener, there is only one difference: strawberries have lower yields than garden strawberries.Agricultural techniques and soil requirements for these plants are the same. Taste too.
For a botanist, there are differences. Strawberries have a stem that is 5 cm longer than wild strawberries. Strawberry flowers are bisexual, strawberries are dioecious.
Are blue strawberries a myth?
But, returning to the blue berry. At the request “buy blue strawberries,” Google provides either links to Aliexpress, where you can buy seeds of this strange fruit, or links to sites where they wonder whether blue strawberries really exist and whether there are photos.
There is a photo. Everything is from Aliexpress. Rare non-Chinese sites offering blue strawberry seeds, upon closer examination, turn out to be intermediaries from the same China.
At the same time, the Chinese themselves are unlikely to be able to answer the question of whether they have strawberries or wild strawberries.
But there is no video of happy gardeners boasting about their blue berry harvest. All videos end at the level of “they sent me seeds” or “here, a Chinese strawberry bush has grown, we haven’t seen the berries yet.”
On forums you can find the opinion that the blue berry is a genetically modified plant with the Arctic flounder gene. The type of flounder is not specified, although in the northern seas there are about a dozen species of these flat fish, including halibut.
They also don’t explain why the berry with the Arctic fish gene changed color. But the video clearly shows how you can “geno-modify” an ordinary red strawberry.
Internet myth
And in the photo near the leaves you can see an unfinished red border.
The color of the “insides” of a blue strawberry apparently depends on the photoshopper’s individual ideas about what this blue berry should look like from the inside.
The level of “toxicity” of color, apparently, also often depends on the conscience of the photoshopper.
And his integrity.They didn’t separate the seeds separately here, painting everything evenly.
Another example of Photoshop oversight.
Sepals of this color are found in red berries (not so “poisonous”), but in blue strawberries they can’t come from anywhere. But it looks beautiful.
Different variations of berry color and “internals”.
But there are blue strawberries without Photoshop and genetic modifications. It's pretty easy to get.
All you need to do is take an aerosol can of blue food paint. This photo is not photoshopped, but a regular red berry painted with paint.
Reviews
If you look at forums where people share their experiences of buying and growing blue strawberries from seeds, you can only find the following reviews:
Let's sum it up
The grapes that come across in all the colors of the rainbow and the blue strawberries are clearly painted in Photoshop.
In this case we are talking about these grapes.
All reviews about the exotic blue berry, by and large, boil down to the fact that either nothing grew at all, or it was not a strawberry that grew, or it grew, but the usual red color. Moreover, the grown berry turned out to have a disgusting “plastic” taste.
On the other hand, seeds are inexpensive, and sellers sometimes send them as gifts. You can take a risk and buy not a sample. Apart from a couple of dollars for seeds and some soil for seedlings, you won’t have to lose anything.Perhaps someone, after all, will be able to boast of a photograph or video of blue exotic berries growing in the garden.
I also sowed blue strawberry seeds. The seedlings are already vigorous. We are waiting for blue berries
Hello Olga. I also want to plant this interesting variety, but the sites I come across are just spam. Could you send me the website link? I will be very grateful;)
I will definitely write!
Mellisa))) I want to plant this interesting variety, but the sites I come across are just spam. Could you send me the website link? I will be very grateful;)
I bought blue strawberry seeds and seedlings came out, let’s see what happens...
Mellisa, write later what she grows up, it’s interesting!
Hello! Alena it’s a hoax it turns out it’s all blue strawberries don’t exist video you watch people are disappointed the berries are ordinary and not tasty but let’s see what to do with them next