疑惑口感?请问你觉得如何?
Chad – 08/11/2017
Pros: Productive, attractive and day-neutral Cons: small, dark, soft fruit with that methyl antrhanilate (think grape soda) flavor that you either love or hate… I hate that flavor
Jeff Nielsen – 07/16/2017
Strawberry Delizz
Chicago Suburbs 5B
I just can’t say enough about these strawberries; “Strawberry Delizz.” They were developed in Holland from two inbred varieties to make an F1 seed named Delizz. They are Day Neutral. They are the first strawberry to EVER win an AAS award … and a National winner at that (2016 winner – if you don’t know about AAS, you should, imho).
I first grew these berries from seed starting late spring 2016, I just couldn’t find seeds until then!! I started the seeds directly outdoors in pots and then grew them on my “full sun” driveway for the rest of the summer/fall until I finally got a taste of them late that fall. I was bringing them in and out of my garage to protect them from cold so I could ripen off a few the berries to taste. Crazy, right? FINALLY …. it’s easy to call these berries excellent tasting, and even before they show full color, they are still excellent; sweet and crisp too !!
Despite the company calling these “annuals” they were spitting out runners like regular strawberries so I “Solo cupped” them up and had 70 beautiful new plants by late November. They are prolific to say the least. The new plants in the solo cups produced bloom/berries before they even rooted, it seemed. That’s when I knew this plant was special and just why it received an AAS award. Wow.
This was my first time over-wintering strawberry plants indoors. All went well until I woke them up too early and they caught a fungal infection on my basement floor. Cutting off the leaves and moving them into the sun solved the problem but I lost about 1/3rd of them. Actually they all could have been saved, but I had many more than needed and it was easier to toss the ones that didn’t respond as well.
About that same time (spring 17), I had planted more F1 seeds (purchased of course … seeds from F1 plant fruit would not be true to type). Sprouting these guys is pretty straight forward, imho. When they were an inch high and I fertilized them (way too much) …. that same fungus hit about half of the plants and once again, moving them into the sun solved the problem again.
That brings us to this summer. The plants in the pots you see here are from the seeds started this year; first year plants, 1 plant in each 11 inch sized pot. The picture tells the rest.
The over-wintered plants were transplanted into pots as well, and while doing well, they are not the quality of the first year plants pictured with this post. In all fairness, it could be that they are just a little behind. Furthermore, they also have different soil so I am not sure this is a good or fair comparison. Having said that, they are still doing quite well and producing berries too…. just not with the vigor of these first year plants from seeds, who just gush with production of fruit and runners. I haven’t cut the runners off, yet. For more fruit production, I should snip them off, but I still may want to try the over winter thing again … not sure. My cheap butt hates to admit it, but they just may be worth growing as annuals like the company suggest. Sigh.
This variety was developed in Holland but was available this 2017 spring year in the US as established plants in containers. Seeds are more readily available at this time as well. If you are going to germinate seeds, Stokeseeds has some helpful hints on this variety … it looks like I had my germination temps too high.
I would recommend this amazing plant as a replacement for your front porch flower pots next spring, at least the full sun “flower” pots. I have not grown them in my garden, just in pots on my deck as shown. I have a vertical growing stack of these guys as well, more on that later.
It’s an outright gorgeous plant ….. and then … it’s easy to grow, has beautiful blooms and beautiful red fruit you can eat.
This is the plant you’ve been look for.
No, I don’t work for the company, but I sure wish I was the one who developed this gem. ?
