When is strawberry picking season?
When is strawberry picking season? When do different strawberry varieties ripen? We also ask knowledgeable readers to help explain. Strawberries are highly nutritious, rich in vitamin C, and help with digestion. At the same time, strawberries can also strengthen the gums, freshen the breath, and soothe the throat. Moreover, strawberries contain a large amount of fruit...
When is strawberry picking season? When do different strawberry varieties ripen? We also ask knowledgeable readers to help explain.Strawberries are highly nutritious, rich in vitamin C, and help with digestion. At the same time, strawberries can also strengthen the gums, freshen the breath, and soothe the throat. Moreover, strawberries contain a large amount of pectin and cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, aid digestion, improve constipation, and prevent hemorrhoids and colon cancer. Therefore, Zhongdi Network has compiled the ripening seasons of several strawberry varieties, listed below for readers' reference.
Kinuasa strawberry:
The fruit is light red, gorgeous, aromatic, extremely sweet, with a sugar content as high as 12%-18% (ordinary strawberries are 7%-12%). It is harvested from December to the following February and can bear fruit continuously for 6 months. The strawberries of this variety can be stored naturally for 7-10 days, while fruit harvested after March can be stored for 4-7 days.
Toyonoka strawberry:
The fruit shape is a short conical shape, the fruit surface is bright red and glossy, the flesh is light red, the flesh is relatively firm and the skin is relatively tough, making it resistant to storage and transport, and the flavor is appropriately sweet and sour, with a soluble solids content of 8%-13%. It is juicy with fine flesh and rich aroma, and of excellent quality; this strawberry variety is suitable for open-field cultivation in the south. When forced into cultivation in greenhouses, the fruit can be harvested and marketed in mid-to-late November.
Juxing No. 1 strawberry:
The fruit is extra large, extremely resistant to storage and transport, and the yield is especially high. The fruit is conical, bright red and gorgeous, uniform and glossy in appearance, with a rich fragrance, mellow and sweet without sourness, good flesh firmness, and strong skin toughness. It can be stored at room temperature for 45 days without changing color or quality. The average single fruit weight is 50 g, with a maximum of 120 g, larger than an egg, and is called the king of strawberries today. This strawberry variety ripens in late April under open-field cultivation, and under forced cultivation in a solar greenhouse all the fruit ripens in March.
Weishi strawberry:
This strawberry variety is suitable for growing in southern regions. The fruit is relatively large, short conical, neat, broad at the shoulder, round at the tip, with a bright red fruit surface (carmine pigment content 0.675%), white flesh that is red near the fruit surface, fine and soft, very juicy, with a rich sweet-and-sour flavor, a high soluble solids content of 12-13%, and a high vitamin C content of 60.2 mg/100 g, with excellent quality. The fruit surface is firm (fruit firmness 0.24-0.388 kg/cm), with good storage resistance. The single fruit weight is 14 g, the maximum fruit weight is 18 g, and the average yield per plant is about 150 g. The planting period is in early March, and the ripening period is May 11-12.
Zaoguang strawberry:
This strawberry variety is suitable for growing in southern regions. The fruit is relatively large, conical, with a neck at the base, and the fruit surface is relatively deep red (carmine pigment 0.66%), glossy and bright. The fruit is firm, with high hardness (0.248-0.326 kg/cm), good storage resistance, red flesh, fine, soft and dense texture, a rich sweet flavor with slight sourness, a soluble solids content of 11.4%, and a vitamin C content of 51.0 mg/100 g. In the Nanjing area, the germination period is February 28-March 1, the flowering period is March 30-April 1, and the harvest begins from April 28-May 5.
Sanxing strawberry:
This strawberry variety is suitable for growing in southern China. The fruit is medium to large, long conical, with a narrow tip and narrow shoulder, dark red (carmine pigment content 1.55%), red flesh, a slightly hollow core, fine texture, very juicy, with a rich sweet-and-sour flavor, a soluble solids content of 10.6%, and a vitamin C content of 41.3 mg/100 g. The fruit surface is hard (fruit firmness 0.246-0.324 kg/sq cm), with good storage resistance and excellent processing quality. When processed into strawberry juice, the color is bright and fades slowly. In the Nanjing area, the germination period is March 1-3, the first flowering period is April 7, the second flowering period is May 17, and the third flowering period is June 10. The harvest periods are respectively: late April-late May, early June-mid July, and late July-mid August. The three harvest periods last a total of 74 days.
Fujenia strawberry:
This variety is suitable for greenhouse planting. The fruit is long conical or long flat wedge-shaped, deep red and glossy, sweet and sour in taste, high in hardness, resistant to storage and transport, and large in size. The largest single fruit weight can exceed 100 g, and the average weight of the first-order fruit is about 42 g. In a solar greenhouse, it can bloom and bear fruit repeatedly from late November until June-July of the following year.
Ningyu strawberry:
This strawberry variety is suitable for planting in the Jiangsu area. The fruit is conical, red, strongly glossy, with seeds sparsely and evenly distributed, a smooth fruit surface, a high fruit-setting rate, and few deformed fruits, making its appearance neat and beautiful. The average fruit weight is 15.5 g. The flesh is orange-red, the core is orange, the flavor is excellent, rich, sweet and fragrant, with very mild sourness, and the soluble solids content is 10.7%. The average yield per mu is 2017 kg. Under forced cultivation in the Nanjing area, planting is generally done in early September, flower buds appear in mid-to-late October, and the fruit first ripens from late November to early December.
Japan No. 1 strawberry:
This strawberry variety is suitable for cultivation in both the north and south. It is currently Japan's newest large-fruit, high-yield, high-quality new strawberry variety, and its root system is especially developed, with very vigorous growth and almost no period of growth decline. It tolerates high temperatures and is also cold-resistant, with strong adaptability and good disease resistance. It generally begins harvesting fruit in late November and finishes in June of the following year, with a supply period as long as 7 months.
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