Strawberries from seed

[Digeroo]

I have managed to get quite a few seeds from supermarket strawberries to germinate and they have now been potted on.  Tough little brutes since I have lost very few in the move.

My question is will I have to keep them inside all winter or do you think these tiny little things will survive outside?  The biggest have two post cotyledon leaves now but still minute. 

[Digeroo]

[Stevens706]

I have never tried to grow from strawberry saved seed but I would be tempted to protect them over Winter as they are seedlings / baby plants in a cold greenhouse.

Could you tell me how you harvested the seed from the berry and sow them as I have a ripe late strawberry that I want to propagate from.

[kypfer]

My question is will I have to keep them inside all winter or do you think these tiny little things will survive outside

The plants I grew from seed last year were sown on the 11th October and having germinated indoors spent the winter in a plastic "growhouse" on my second-floor balcony ... so out of the wind, but definitely not heated. They didn't put up a lot of foliage, just a couple of small leaves, but the root system developed suprisingly well. The resultant plants are still fruiting  :D

[Digeroo]

The best ones I have grown I took off a thin strip from the edge of the strawberry and laid it on top of the compost and covered with plastic.  (I ate the rest of the fruit.}  After a while the red stuff had  rotted so I sort of mixed the seed and the compost together and watered it again.  I have six pots of six different varieties.  One has produced a forest, one has produced a few and the rest nothing at all.

I have a couple of pots in the freezer to give that a try.

I have potted on quite a few since I have no idea whether they will be tasty.  But later on I can be brutal and discard any that do not fruit, or are not worth having, which obviously may be all of them.  The professional growers grow thousands and choose the best.  But my justification is that my sense of taste/smell is different from other peoples so what I choose may be different.  Someone gave me some very expensive perfume to smell the other day and it smelt like male rabbit to me. 

Thanks kyper I might try some covered in plastic bottles outside.  At least the deer will not eat them.   The Florian I grew from seed have fruited the entire summer. But for me they taste of nothing at all.

[Squash64]

Someone gave me some very expensive perfume to smell the other day and it smelt like male rabbit to me. 

Thanks Digeroo, this made me laugh.  ;D

[Digeroo]

A bit more update on Strawberries from seed.  I put some of the slithers of strawberry with seeds on a plate and let them dry out and then scrapped off the seeds.  Up to now there was no action but some have now germinated.  So this method works as well.  Sowed them on the surface covered with plastic.  It has taken about five weeks.  But the first type only took three.

At least with this method I can keep some and sow them in the spring.

If you have a particular strawberry I would have thought that runners or division would be better.