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| 4.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.02 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Quick GerminationFeb 15, 2011
By Neil Thompson
The back of the package says to be patient and allow a few weeks for germination, but it's hardly been a week and I've already got quite a few poking their leaves out. I've had trouble getting strawberry seeds to germinate before, but I guess not this time. I'll have to plant the other half of the package now. There are plenty of seeds to go around, it doesn't look like a lot, but I filled 72 plugs with 2-3 seeds each and have lots of extra.
Details on my setup: I'm using 9-packs with peat seed-starter in a tray with a plastic cover, with 3-5 hours direct sunlight and a 120 watt gro-light on 8-8 daily. I couldn't tell you if that's the ideal setup for these, but it did the trick. One thing I've noted is that in many of the plugs which have germinated, both (or all three) seeds germinated at the same time. It seems to happen more often than random chance would suggest, and as far as I can tell there are no differences in water. My best guess is that they're particular about the depth they're planted at. When I was planting the seeds, I tapped down the top of the soil a small bit, dropped the seeds onto that surface, and sprinkled just a little more soil on top of that, which I also tapped a little. The package says to plant at 1/8", which doesn't imply a very big margin of error. All these germinating seeds seem to be within a couple days of each other, but the difference between the amount of soil I put over the seeds in one plug vs the next was VERY small. All these doubles and triples makes me think that it does matter to these more than some other plants, even if the others are coming along. In summary, DON'T BURY THESE SEEDS. They germinated VERY well under the directed 1/8" (or less), but this much variation over little differences in covering makes me think they wouldn't be happy under a lot of soil.
EDIT: 6 days later, all my plugs have healthy seedlings, and enough had doubles and triples for me to transplant the smaller ones into 6-packs. I now have 102 seedlings under the lights, and only used about half the seeds provided. A very, very good result for the price! I'll update again when I transplant them to bigger pots or to the outdoors.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great!Jun 16, 2010
By Cassandra Mistiq
"CCCMistiq"
Most if not all of the seeds came up. After getting poor results with seeds from other places, I planted all the seeds in 9 different pots and was amazed when seemingly all of them grew! If I had known they would come up this well I would have saved some for later and avoided having to thin the seedlings as much (I always regret having to kill off plants due to using too many seeds -- especially since each pot looks like a thickly populated chia pet). Next time I want to plant strawberries I definitely plan on getting these seeds and using as few as possible in each pot (strawberry seeds are tiny, I'll aim for 3-5, but if I get 10 or so there are so many that it won't be a disaster)!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
100% germination rate so farApr 01, 2010
By Wix
I have 2 aerogardens I am using to cultivate these beautiful berry plants. Germination took place between 3-10 days in the Aerogarden and the plants are doing very well. The nicest one so far I planted in an Aerogarden 3 at the end of January. It has since been transplanted to soil and is about 8 inches tall, 4 inches wide at the base with large, healthy leaves which spread out over a foot in diameter and it has produced one blossom already. There are 5 others I planted just last week and they are all sprouted, the biggest one being about 1 inch tall already with 2 sets of leaves. In all I have 9 plants from this seed packet and am pleased. They seem hardy enough and have been happy with just the regular herb aerogarden nutrients. One has even bounced back from having its roots torn during transplantation from my AG6 to the 3.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Blooming but no fruitFeb 04, 2011
By N. Crass
"buckeyegrad"
These were easy to grow. They took along time to get to the blooming stage but did make it. That was it though. Never produced fruit. Flowered and then the flower would die. Easy to grow but can't eat a flower.
5 of 7 found the following review helpful:
going strong so farOct 12, 2009
By Silea
I had a germination rate of about 66% with these seeds. The packet comes with ~250, so you can afford that relatively low rate without much annoyance.
My seedlings are thriving so far, but they're growing indoors, so i'm not sure if they'll ever fruit.
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