Rainbow Treasure Strawberry

Did not germinate

I was very disappointed when these did not germinate. They look so pretty and yummy.

Just the hardiest seedlings, can’t wait for the strawberries!

I sowed these end of Jan 2025 for spring. Key to quick germination: heat mat set @ 70-75°. I went a little overboard and did a bunch of stratification testing on these seeds (and other strawberry seeds) and what I found was right out of the packet has a germination time of about 10 days and I was able to get down to a germination time of 4 days with 2 weeks dry cold stratification. Moist cold stratification did ok, but dry cold stratification did just as good without the effort just stick the seed pack in the fridge. Anyways, no matter the germination time, I only ever had about 60% germination rate and another girl in my gardening group had the same for these seeds. My point is these seeds are great right out of the packet and didn’t have any higher germination rate with cold stratification. So, save yourself the time and just sow em. The little seedlings were very easy to care for and did fantastic under the grow light I had this year. They grew well if you stayed on top of growth and potting them up. I also started to feed them diluted fertilizer (Bloom City's Organic Strawberry Fertilizer & Blueberry Fertilizer from Amazon) after 4 leaves. This really helped. The bigger teen plants are robust. These have been so hardy and happy and easy to grow especially compared to the alpine strawberries I tried to grow which never did well but there’s a chance my grow light was too strong, too. The teens are already sending out runners, so I look forward to making more plants with the runners. I highly recommend these wonderful seeds if you’re looking to try to grow a specific type (like everbearing) that the stores won’t have!

Rainbow treasure

Not one seed germinated. Wouldn’t buy again.