Has anyone ever seen strawberries grow as big as peaches?

Question

I just got a Carol Wright catalog and in it was an advertisment for suposed strawberries that grow as big as peaches. i was curious if anyone has ever seen this in their catalog and ordered it and tried it before. and did they grow as big as peaches like the ad said?

Answer 1

I get those ads in my Sunday Paper too....

My only question is... if it is such a great plant, why do they have a cartoon picture instead of a real one?

I have had great success growing a regular strawberry plant... don't fall victim to these scams :0)

Answer 2

When you could buy giberillic (spelling??) acid on the market you could turn any strawberry into a giant. The auxin would make each plant cell enlarge far larger than normal. The plant or fruit still had the same number of cells, but they were filled with basically water, no taste. If you are growing a flowering plant and want it taller for the florist industry, that's one thing (you don't eat it) but for edibles, you are just making big water bags for cells. This also applies to miracle potions that make your "X" plant (fill in the blank, like tomato) grow to 30 feet tall......just bigger cells, no added taste.

As for these gigantic strawberries, they've been bred to just have bigger cells, not better flavor. Size does not indicate flavor. A wild strawberry the size of your thumbnail (natural not acrylics) has far more flavor than many strawberries on the market today.

Answer 3

It's becoming more and more common to see gigantic sized fruits and vegetables produced through genetic modification. Unfortunately, you'll likely end up with very big strawberries (but not as big as the ad claims) that taste like sour styrafoam.

This is the reason that many home gardeners turn to heirloom plants and organic gardening. You can buy giant strawberries now at the supermarket. Try one. Then buy a normal sized strawberry from an organic market and see which tastes better.

Answer 4

I've never seen their catalog but I did buy a case of peach sized strawberries from Walmart last year (they didn't have any this year) and surprisingly they had a wonderful juicy flavor. I melted down 5 pounds of chocolate for a Fondue and the family put them away pretty quick -- delicious.

Answer 5

Bottom line: DON'T DO IT!
From experience - they taste horrible!
The bigger they are - and being that these are genetically altered plants, the less they taste like fruit and more like cardboard. You'd be just as well off buying some plastic decorative fruit to gnaw on, rather than buying these strawberry plants.

Go to yahoo groups and do a search for a local plant exchange group, your local gardeners may be more than happy to swap or give some strawberry plants or runners to you, from plants with normal sized strawberries.

Answer 6

Nothing like that but an older man down the road bought some sweet corn seed through the mail that was supposed to grow ears 24 inches long! I saw the plants come up but no one ever saw any corn. Go figure.
Caveat Emporum. Buyer beware.

Answer 7

ive seen huge ones.. like a peach size.. good luck on tasting anything other than water when you eat this.. thats all its full of. no sugars at all due to overstressing enyzmes while growing for size and not flavor.

Answer 8

It has been found to genetically successful through
cross pollination. But, the taste may be left to be desired.
Well, it's part of the high technological modified fruits.
Would you go for it?


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Answer 9

no, but who would want to. the smaller berries are the tastiest. small wild strawberries are the very best. but peach size, cant be much taste.

Answer 10

I have never seen strawberries this big. I don't imagine they would taste too great!!