RE: Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism
July 15, 2016 at 9:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 10:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You can grow them from roots or crowns online. All you need is a light vertical stepped structure filled with coco peat, a quality hydro nutrient solution, super low ph, and a bunch of baking soda (to mist the foliage with when fungus and mold inevitably crop up).
If you can fit the structure through your door...you can get the crowns past their vegetative phase outside....then bring them inside to the AC to chill them down, slow them down, and sweeten the berry after flowering. You couldn't find a berry like this will produce in a store. They're delicious, but they don't keep well off the stem...the sucrose content and ph make them go soft and rot faster. Pretty much as big as you want them to be. More water is bigger, less is smaller.
The reason your store bought berries suck, comparatively, is because a trade has been made in the producers favor, so that a large..impatient... consumer base can be supported. Basically, he maxes out the water uptake to hedge against loss, but also puts them out in the window which takes the least amount of time to get them out of his field, which makes them water balloons that haven't had the time to fully develop a high sugar content. They're then picked partially green, to avoid bruising during packaging and transport, and increase the amount of time they can spend in the grocers cooler before they go bad. All of this in the context of what is likely a mixed cropping plan, in which the abnormally low ph value for strawberries (sweet ones in particular) would interfere with his previous or successive planting, in addition to incurring greater overall production costs regarding swift changes in ph and ph management. So it's left a little more alkaline, preventing the strawberries from becoming as sweet as they would be in the first place.
OTOH, we can get a passable strawberry anywhere in the world at any time at an affordable price. Yet another example of life getting better across the board. We might complain that the berries aren't as sweet..but at least there are berries to eat now. By the by, I trialed a few new strawberry cultivars for UF a few years back. Sweet doesn't adequately describe them. They're oversweet...which I guess is the point, they're being produced to support operations like the one described above. Comes out just right in the balance of things.
If you can fit the structure through your door...you can get the crowns past their vegetative phase outside....then bring them inside to the AC to chill them down, slow them down, and sweeten the berry after flowering. You couldn't find a berry like this will produce in a store. They're delicious, but they don't keep well off the stem...the sucrose content and ph make them go soft and rot faster. Pretty much as big as you want them to be. More water is bigger, less is smaller.
The reason your store bought berries suck, comparatively, is because a trade has been made in the producers favor, so that a large..impatient... consumer base can be supported. Basically, he maxes out the water uptake to hedge against loss, but also puts them out in the window which takes the least amount of time to get them out of his field, which makes them water balloons that haven't had the time to fully develop a high sugar content. They're then picked partially green, to avoid bruising during packaging and transport, and increase the amount of time they can spend in the grocers cooler before they go bad. All of this in the context of what is likely a mixed cropping plan, in which the abnormally low ph value for strawberries (sweet ones in particular) would interfere with his previous or successive planting, in addition to incurring greater overall production costs regarding swift changes in ph and ph management. So it's left a little more alkaline, preventing the strawberries from becoming as sweet as they would be in the first place.
OTOH, we can get a passable strawberry anywhere in the world at any time at an affordable price. Yet another example of life getting better across the board. We might complain that the berries aren't as sweet..but at least there are berries to eat now. By the by, I trialed a few new strawberry cultivars for UF a few years back. Sweet doesn't adequately describe them. They're oversweet...which I guess is the point, they're being produced to support operations like the one described above. Comes out just right in the balance of things.
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