Many homeowners want to grow something on their plot that can surprise their neighbors. More recently, neighbors could not only surprise, but even frighten with purple bell pepper or black tomato. Today this task is much more difficult. The Internet has appeared in almost every home, in seed shops you will not find any varieties of vegetables and fruits. Striped pink eggplants, white cucumbers, purple carrot... It looks like bragging about unusual fruits and vegetables is a thing of the past. But it happens, you just want to plant something interesting and unusual.
How can you surprise your neighbors and decorate your site? The mention of blue strawberries is increasingly common on the Internet. True, garden strawberries are usually grown in the 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 on the left, meadow strawberries on the right.
Initially, strawberries were called green strawberries because of the sphericity of the fruits.
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For consumers, it doesn't make much difference whether strawberries or strawberries grow in the garden. For the gardener, the difference is only in one thing: strawberries have a lower yield 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 5 cm longer than strawberries. Flowers in strawberries are bisexual, in strawberries they are dioecious.
Are blue strawberries a myth?
But, returning to the blue berry. At the request "buy blue strawberries" Google gives out either links to Aliexpress, where you can buy seeds of this outlandish fruit, or links to sites where they ask a question, is there really a blue strawberry and is there a photo.
There is a photo. All from Aliexpress. Rare non-Chinese sites offering blue strawberry seeds, upon closer inspection, turn out to be intermediaries of the same China.
At the same time, the Chinese themselves are unlikely to be able to answer the question whether they have strawberries or strawberries.
But the video, where happy gardeners brag about the harvest of the blue berry, does not exist. All videos end with the level "they sent me seeds" or "here, a bush of Chinese strawberries has grown, we haven't seen the berries yet."
On the 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 there are about a dozen species of these flat fish in the northern seas, including halibut.
They also do not explain why the berry with the Arctic fish gene changed color. But the video clearly shows how you can "genomodify" 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 blue strawberries, apparently, depends on the individual ideas of the photographer about how this blue berry should look from the inside.
The level of "toxicity" of a color, apparently, also often depends on the conscience of the photographer.
And his good faith. The seeds were not isolated here separately, having painted everything evenly.
Another example of oversight of the photographer.
Sepals of this color are found in red berries (not so "poisonous"), they have nowhere to get from blue strawberries. But it looks beautiful.
Different variations of the color of the berry and "guts".
But there are blue strawberries without Photoshop and genetic modifications. It's pretty easy to get it.
It is enough to take an aerosol can with blue food paint. This photo is not Photoshop, but a regular red berry painted with paint.
Testimonials
If you look at the forums where people share their experience of buying and growing blue strawberries from seeds, then you can find only such reviews:
Let's summarize
Falling grapes of all colors of the rainbow and blue strawberries are clearly painted in Photoshop.
Speech in this case about just such a grape.
All reviews about the exotic blue berry, by and large, boil down to the fact that either nothing has grown, in general, or not strawberries have grown, or have grown, but the usual red color. Moreover, the grown berry turned out to be a disgusting "plastic" taste.
On the other hand, seeds are inexpensive, sellers sometimes also send them with gifts. You can take a chance and buy not a sample. Apart from a couple of dollars for seeds and some land for seedlings, there is nothing to lose. Perhaps someone, after all, will be able to boast of a photo 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, only the sites come across some spam. Could you send me a link from the site? I will be very grateful;)
I will definitely write!
Mellisa))) I want to plant this interesting variety, but only the sites come across some spam. Could you send me a link from the site? I will be very grateful;)
I bought blue strawberry seeds, the seedlings got out, let's see what happens ...
Mellisa, write later that it will grow, interesting!
Hello! Alena deception turns out to be all this blue strawberries do not exist video you watch people are disappointed berries are ordinary and not tasty but let's see what to do with it