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Are they still wild strawberries if I grew them in a pot? Or are they more like semi-feral strawberries? ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] AiricaFyresong@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those look like mock strawberries. I've heard they don't taste too good.

[โ€“] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[โ€“] Fermion@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Kind of like watery foam

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

they look normal to me? Mock strawberries seem to be very spherical and have "extruded" seeds, whereas these look strawberry-y and have seeds that sit right on the surface.

[โ€“] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If they start peeing in a box and begging for food, they're domesticated.

[โ€“] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 5 points 1 month ago

Depends on what they do in their spare time.

I don't even see straws in those berries.

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've got about 2 acres of those. they grow to gumball sized every year.

they don't taste great, but not horrible either.

[โ€“] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 woodland strawberries in a fancier hat, so there may not be an appreciable distinction.

[โ€“] foliumcreations@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We call them "Smultron" in Sweden and they are just what strawberries where before cultivation. My garden is full of them.

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

interestingly modern strawberries are just a hybrid between two (or maybe more) species of wild strawberries, AFAIK there wasn't even that much cultivation done to get them big!

[โ€“] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Berries gone wild! Watch these crazy wild berries bare it all.

[โ€“] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

It depends. Do they come to you when you call them?

[โ€“] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they everbearing strawberries? I have a few of them. They produce really small ones like that but last all summer.

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that a thing? How do they do indoors? I could go for a random strawberry throughout the year.

[โ€“] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I dont know honestly. Mine are outdoors.