ORH 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Plasticulture, Achene
27 Nov 2017
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Hybrid bigger happened when the europeans bred these together. 1920-1945, great place to grow straws in cali and oregon. The real fruit are the seeds called achenes. If you pick a strawberry at green, it will not ripen. The sugars in strawberries gets higher as it grows. It gets sweeter when it gets more ripe. Taste, is tongue only (sweet, sour, butter, salty). 563000 acres, 4. 3 million sons annually, production cultivation and yield increasing. Perennial beds, you have no fruit first year, then year 2-4 you get bunches, and after that, you gotta renovate! Strawberries, they get their name because of the straw they put on the beds. Tunnel production, sheeting over hoops, extend growing seasosn. Florida produces strawberries in the winter months where cali (cid:272)an"t. These two states are the ones that produce strawbb. Florida strawberries are high value and 100% fresh market. Almost all of them happen around where tampa is.
