Strawberry blue - myth or reality?

Modern gardeners and gardeners, at times, are distinguished by great originality and creativity. They are busy not only growing plants, but also striving to constantly surprise and experiment. One of their latest inventions was the blue strawberry.Its seeds can be found on many sites on the Internet, but it is worth noting that no one has ever seen it in the gardens.

Everyone knows what depends on the green color of the grass. This bright color is due to chlorophyll. Under the action of the sun, it is produced in many plants. Many fruits are initially also green, but over time they turn yellow, orange or red.

This is due to the destruction of chlorophyll, which is replaced by carotenoids (orange pigments), anthocyanins (purple pigments), or xanthophylls (yellow pigments). But what is the blue color of strawberries?

There is an opinion that in order to get the blue color of the berry, you need to add the gene of flounder from Antarctica to the plant. However, no one can decide exactly what the taste of strawberries will become after that. By the way, the fish gene has already been introduced into strawberries. But this was done in order to make it more frost-resistant, and not to change the color.

Many people do not want to eat genetically modified foods, because this is still a little-studied area. In the photo on the Internet you can often find images of blue strawberries. Many people wonder if these are real photos or high-quality photoshop and is there such a strawberry? After all, there is actually a white and yellow strawberry, and in India a very dark berry grows, almost black, which has a specific taste.

The photos on the Internet that we see are most likely a high-quality photoshop. However, there is such a theory that some suppliers of fruit color strawberries with food coloring to form a unique offer.

Chinese online stores are full of ads of seeds of such an exotic variety, but whether this is true or a marketing move, for many it remains an open question until now.

If you want to understand whether blue strawberry is a myth or a reality, it is necessary to study the opinions of those gardeners who have already encountered this issue in practice. In online stores they write about such a strawberry that under the influence of external factors it can very easily change its shade or become colorless, so it should be grown very carefully, not mixing with other varieties, which, according to gardeners, sounds strange and unconvincing.

Gardeners claim that there are berries of green or yellow color, and this is really true. Nobody saw the strawberry blue live. If you order its seeds from China, then you can send a blue or green berry. In addition, the price for these seeds is unreasonably high.

If you look for reviews about buying or growing blue strawberries, most people write that such a berry does not exist and this is an absolute myth. After all, the network does not have a single photo or video with blue strawberries in the garden. That is what suggests the idea that this is another marketer ploy.

In order to personally confirm or disprove all the myths and conjectures, it is necessary to purchase berry seeds. For this, of course, you will have to sacrifice a certain amount of money and a certain amount of time for placing the order and painful waiting. Further, on your own summer cottage or in a pot on the balcony, you will need to sow miracle seeds and wait for the result. If the experience is completed successfully, you can share the results with other summer residents and finally see the blue berry with your own eyes.

You can learn more about blue strawberries in the next video.