Kurt, I have had a very similar experience with these two varieties from Raintree. After a couple of years of production, the plants stopped producing fruit. However, I am not at this time willing to assume that this is because there are no male plants. The plants do bloom and produce what looks like a small green berry that might get to about 1/4". However, the fruit soon aborts, sometimes turning black, but mostly just drying up. The plants are still very hardy, and grow like weeds thourghout my garden. I don't make any effort to weed them out, but don't hesitate to plow them under or remove from any place where they might be a problem.
If the addition of a male plant resoves your problem, I would appreciate hearing about it. If any other members have insight, that would also be appreciated.
John
Zone 5
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, kbrubaker@nc.rr.com <kbrubaker@nc.rr.com> wrote:
From: kbrubaker@nc.rr.com <kbrubaker@nc.rr.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] musk strawberries
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:31 PM
The musk strawberries offered by Raintree Nursery and a few other sites are an
interesting berry that I will give another try this year. They live up to their
description as one of the best flavored strawberries I have ever had.
At the time, only the Profumata and Capron cultivars were available, now
Raintree is offering a male musk strawberry plant this year. I had bought one
plant each of the profumata and capron and let them runner to expand the plot.
They grew to over 100 plants after the first season and filled a 60'x4'
bed after the
second full growing season. We had great crops those years, but
then the next year all the flowers failed to form fruit. The year after was the
same so removed the patch. I had assumed a disease was the culprit, or they
suffered from a similar reduction in fruiting vigor that standard strawberries
suffer from after a few years.
After seeing the male plant offering, I realized I had also relocated my
Tristar and Seascape patch further away from the musk strawberry patch the year
that I saw the flowers fail to set. It hadn't occured to me that the two
varieties might not be able to fully pollinate each other.
*sigh*
Kurt
Durham, NC
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