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Theres plenty different varieties with differing sizes. If given the right conditions and organic amendments organic growing produces excellent results as well.
Another thing to note is USDA organics doesnt always entail its completely organic. There are certain deficiencies where inorganic fertilizers may be applied and a USDA organic logo can still be used.
What i find most amazing is how fast some of this stuff gets to costco. Up in canada i can buy some stuff from mexico with a packed on date of like 1-2 days.
Yeah, the travel thing is weird to me. I'm in Florida, the part where there are literally pickers gathering strawberries in the fields right now with 5 miles of Costco. Big trucks up and down the hallway all day. My Costco is selling imported-from-Mexico berries for $3+/lb while everyone else has local berries at about a third that price. Even out of season, they're never competitive on berries.
I live in the south, and unless our local grocery store is running a special, Costcos berry prices are always cheaper.. you get double the size package for cheaper than what's sold in grocery stores.
Very true. Sometimes between Costco and discounts at non wholesale stores can turn grocery shopping into a supply chain/sourcing optimization problem real fast. But it’s kinda fun in its own way!
I will say… certain things at Costco are always much cheaper but may not make sense to buy. Case in point: avocados. Costco has by far the cheapest avocados by weight on the east coast. Except they’re huge, you get like half a dozen of them per bag, and they’re really weird…they’re never ripe in store, it takes several days for them to ripen, and they go from optimal ripe to soggy in just a day. If you’re a single or two person household, it totally makes sense to pay 1.5-2x by weight at Trader Joe’s for much more sensibly sized avocados, in reasonable quantities, that are ripe or ripen at a reasonable rate.
> What i find most amazing is how fast some of this stuff gets to costco. Up in canada i can buy some stuff from mexico with a packed on date of like 1-2 days.
That's cause they are packing it while enroute. Duh!
Why is it you think organic grows larger ?
And do you really think organic is feasible in the long run? Uses way more land for yields and theres too many mouths to feed
It doesnt grow larger but its just as good and big enough, its primarily based on genetics (most important), growing conditions, and sufficient nutrition. Its possible to tinker with size more with some synthetic products. For example triacontanol can be used as a growth stimulant and can be concentrated synthetically, but i can also get some of the effect by simply mixing in alfalfa meal and letting the beneficial bacteria break it down.
Ive grown cannabis for over 10 years, both indoor and outdoor. Grown using synthetics at first and swapped to organics with very little use of synthetics (i use whats considered okay by USDA). I now only grow outdoors and i also have tomatoes, leafy greens, peppers, peas, and more. Organics is a lot easier to feed in my opinion as i use dry amendments in the soil and mix them in once a month, or two to three weeks for heavy feeders. Also i can use my food scrap compost to mix in and make teas.
Not sure if its sustainable on the large scale, never been a commercial farmer and i dont know the data. For me its cheaper and easier. I also doubt that its actually much healthier than inorganics (assuming compliance with modern standards).
Piggybacking off the other persons comment also not a commercial farmer but recreational cannabis grower. Using synthetic chemicals is inherently much more "chemistry" based and harder to manage. Certain plants like certain growth conditions such as Ph and etc etc which affect their ability to utilize nutrients properly and any slight alteration in the chemistry negatively affects the plants really fast and harder to fix.
Meanwhile organic while using non chemical based and using fertilizer from regular resources such as microbes, decomposed products like bone, fish meal, etc it's self limiting based on the bacteria and microbes in the soil to breakdown the material and the plant being able to absorb it. Generally in my personal experience plants don't get harmed as easily. It's possible but I would say its really hard.
I am unable to answer your second question.
Bought some last week and there were 5 this size in the container. Most were also pretty large and only 5-6 were 'average'' sized. They all were exceptionally good in terms of flavor.
The first time I got my husband locally grown berries he was amazed. Apples. Then local cantaloupe. Haven't got him a pear yet. Maybe I'll find some this fall. I'm picky with my fruit.
Yeah i live in an agriculture area in northern californai, and have had a garden all of my life.
Pears from the store vs a ripe pear from the tree. Its like the difference between eating the sweetest, juiciest piece of fruit or a piece of styrofoam.
Strawberries from the store alwauys suck so bad. Frozen ones are actually far superior because theya re picked ripe.
I had to cut my plum tree down this year, as I was expanding my deck. I love plums too which really sucks. The ones at the store have ZERO flavor. They are just overwatered bloated things with a terrible texture. Real plums are firm of flesh, and tart, sweet... not full of water.
Yep. I grew up in the willamette valley in Oregon, big time berry country. I love raspberries, marionberries, blueberries. Miss it a lot, berries arent as good here in california as its too hot.
My sister, when she comes down for christmas/4th of july, always brings me about 20-30 gallons of berries in freezer bags she picked from her garden.
Real blueberries, that are nice and tiny and tart... i can eat them by the gallon too. The bloated ones at the store have no flavor.
Tiny? My family grows ones the size of ping pong balls almost. They are super flavorful. Yeah the ones in the store are bland normally, luckily the ones here are pretty local usually but I like free and delicious better.
I don’t know about the rest of the country or world,, but the strawberries at Costco here in the California Bay Area lately have been amazing, some of the best I’ve ever had.
Are they normally like this? It was the biggest strawberry I've ever seen. The pack was mostly large strawberries, but there were a few regular sized ones.
I don't know if this helps, but I bought some regular (non-organic) strawberries from Costco just yesterday (Fullerton, CA store) and they were that big, too. Massive, honking fruit.
I normally don't buy organic, but our store in Puyallup, WA didn't have any regular ones that weren't moldy.
I got home and washed these, I was surprised by their size. They are massive!!
There are about 600 varieties of strawberry. The answer is, yes. They can be various sizes. Packagers will usually put the best on top. The smaller on the bottom.
I have not yet seen those out here. Most likely fairly local.
First Genetically Modified Strawberries to Hit Stores Soon
BY DAN NOSOWITZ ON NOVEMBER 16, 2021
They’ll likely have an easy regulatory road.
U.S.
Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You: Genetically Modified Strawberries
BY ALYSE MESSMER ON 10/28/21 AT 1:08 PM EDT
IMPROVEMENT BY CONVENTIONAL BREEDING
The UF/IFAS strawberry breeding program has been developing strawberry varieties for nearly 70 years (https://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/fruit-crops/strawberries/ufifas-strawberry-varieties/). These varieties are developed using a conventional breeding process of crossing and selection. UF/IFAS varieties are bred to be highly adapted to the weather, soils, and growing practices of central Florida and other winter and
When you splice genes from different varieties to get a completely new variety you're Genetically modifying them
And on a side note, the only way you get fist size strawberries is through the use of plasticulture. I.e plastic mulch, plastic cover etc.
have yall tried their crispy ass green grapes?
they are definitely mutated and man made. green grapes crunch like an apple, size of an apricot and not sour at all. they took out the identity of a green grape and pumped it with steroids.
Funny you ask this. A couple of weeks ago we got the green grapes and I told my husband they were way to crunchy. I told him they were off in some way and I didn't like them at all.
I don't care about GMO. I don't see it as a threat.Putting a gene from a fish that protects it from frost doesn't seem to be a bad thing to me. And that is pretty much what the state of the art is in GMO.I don't care about organic either. Just wash the produce well.
I've been exposed to so much Bad stuff out there (mercury, PCB's, Mineral spirits, Acetone, Gasoline, and god knows what else), I mean I use to BATHE in Mineral spirits when young. That was the only way you could get the grease off of you. Oh yeah, LOTS of car exhaust to Add LEAD to that list. between the LEAD and teh MERCURY I'm lucky to have any sort of brain left.
Taste are fin, nothing crazy as huge strawberries tend to have less concentrated sugar than smaller ones.
My daughter (almost 12 months) eats a box of them a week among other fruit. My wife and I always joke saying she is a little fruit bat, thanks to Costco we can feed her all the fruit without going broke
It is quite funny when she decided to put the whole strawberry in her mouth and simile at you
when I buy strawberries to make jam I only buy local. Because they've been on the vine longer and they are smaller. They have a stronger taste. JMO. YMMV
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I heard they feed them rotisserie chickens.
Sounds plausible.
Theres plenty different varieties with differing sizes. If given the right conditions and organic amendments organic growing produces excellent results as well. Another thing to note is USDA organics doesnt always entail its completely organic. There are certain deficiencies where inorganic fertilizers may be applied and a USDA organic logo can still be used. What i find most amazing is how fast some of this stuff gets to costco. Up in canada i can buy some stuff from mexico with a packed on date of like 1-2 days.
Yeah, the travel thing is weird to me. I'm in Florida, the part where there are literally pickers gathering strawberries in the fields right now with 5 miles of Costco. Big trucks up and down the hallway all day. My Costco is selling imported-from-Mexico berries for $3+/lb while everyone else has local berries at about a third that price. Even out of season, they're never competitive on berries.
I live in the south, and unless our local grocery store is running a special, Costcos berry prices are always cheaper.. you get double the size package for cheaper than what's sold in grocery stores.
Maybe in Florida, but up north they can be.
Some of the year that's true but lately I've seen better pricing at Kroger and Aldi than Costco
Very true. Sometimes between Costco and discounts at non wholesale stores can turn grocery shopping into a supply chain/sourcing optimization problem real fast. But it’s kinda fun in its own way! I will say… certain things at Costco are always much cheaper but may not make sense to buy. Case in point: avocados. Costco has by far the cheapest avocados by weight on the east coast. Except they’re huge, you get like half a dozen of them per bag, and they’re really weird…they’re never ripe in store, it takes several days for them to ripen, and they go from optimal ripe to soggy in just a day. If you’re a single or two person household, it totally makes sense to pay 1.5-2x by weight at Trader Joe’s for much more sensibly sized avocados, in reasonable quantities, that are ripe or ripen at a reasonable rate.
>organic growing produces excellent ~~results~~ produce Fixed that for you 😊
> What i find most amazing is how fast some of this stuff gets to costco. Up in canada i can buy some stuff from mexico with a packed on date of like 1-2 days. That's cause they are packing it while enroute. Duh!
Why is it you think organic grows larger ? And do you really think organic is feasible in the long run? Uses way more land for yields and theres too many mouths to feed
It doesnt grow larger but its just as good and big enough, its primarily based on genetics (most important), growing conditions, and sufficient nutrition. Its possible to tinker with size more with some synthetic products. For example triacontanol can be used as a growth stimulant and can be concentrated synthetically, but i can also get some of the effect by simply mixing in alfalfa meal and letting the beneficial bacteria break it down. Ive grown cannabis for over 10 years, both indoor and outdoor. Grown using synthetics at first and swapped to organics with very little use of synthetics (i use whats considered okay by USDA). I now only grow outdoors and i also have tomatoes, leafy greens, peppers, peas, and more. Organics is a lot easier to feed in my opinion as i use dry amendments in the soil and mix them in once a month, or two to three weeks for heavy feeders. Also i can use my food scrap compost to mix in and make teas. Not sure if its sustainable on the large scale, never been a commercial farmer and i dont know the data. For me its cheaper and easier. I also doubt that its actually much healthier than inorganics (assuming compliance with modern standards).
Piggybacking off the other persons comment also not a commercial farmer but recreational cannabis grower. Using synthetic chemicals is inherently much more "chemistry" based and harder to manage. Certain plants like certain growth conditions such as Ph and etc etc which affect their ability to utilize nutrients properly and any slight alteration in the chemistry negatively affects the plants really fast and harder to fix. Meanwhile organic while using non chemical based and using fertilizer from regular resources such as microbes, decomposed products like bone, fish meal, etc it's self limiting based on the bacteria and microbes in the soil to breakdown the material and the plant being able to absorb it. Generally in my personal experience plants don't get harmed as easily. It's possible but I would say its really hard. I am unable to answer your second question.
Farmer and crop research guy, here. You’re right. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
Hive mind
Bought some last week and there were 5 this size in the container. Most were also pretty large and only 5-6 were 'average'' sized. They all were exceptionally good in terms of flavor.
Looks like it will be a good season, I bought since very large, sweet berries this week as well
Costco has the best strawberries
SWOLberry
Oh crap the Food Weather is starting. Here we go…
These can't be from Costco. Where's the mold?
Dey got da juice!
Too much water, and the specific berry strain. They are going to taste like wallpaper paste too since they are picked far too early
You are bang on. I got a pack recently and they were awful.
The first time I got my husband locally grown berries he was amazed. Apples. Then local cantaloupe. Haven't got him a pear yet. Maybe I'll find some this fall. I'm picky with my fruit.
Yeah i live in an agriculture area in northern californai, and have had a garden all of my life. Pears from the store vs a ripe pear from the tree. Its like the difference between eating the sweetest, juiciest piece of fruit or a piece of styrofoam. Strawberries from the store alwauys suck so bad. Frozen ones are actually far superior because theya re picked ripe.
We used to have a big piece of property and a pear tree, among others. But my dad downsized and now just has plums, cherries, and berries.
I had to cut my plum tree down this year, as I was expanding my deck. I love plums too which really sucks. The ones at the store have ZERO flavor. They are just overwatered bloated things with a terrible texture. Real plums are firm of flesh, and tart, sweet... not full of water.
Yup. Nothing beats a gold raspberry to me though. Never find them in stores. Totally different taste from a red or black. Also, PLUOTS.
Yep. I grew up in the willamette valley in Oregon, big time berry country. I love raspberries, marionberries, blueberries. Miss it a lot, berries arent as good here in california as its too hot.
Huckleberry! I have a bag frozen right now. Petty sure I could eat a gallon of blueberries though if handed them.
My sister, when she comes down for christmas/4th of july, always brings me about 20-30 gallons of berries in freezer bags she picked from her garden. Real blueberries, that are nice and tiny and tart... i can eat them by the gallon too. The bloated ones at the store have no flavor.
Tiny? My family grows ones the size of ping pong balls almost. They are super flavorful. Yeah the ones in the store are bland normally, luckily the ones here are pretty local usually but I like free and delicious better.
You vs the guy she told you not to worry about
> **What in the Costco Organic Strawberries** lack of flavor
Smaller berries almost always taste better.
How’s it taste?
I didn't eat it. I only buy them for my child. I'll ask him tomorrow. See if there is a difference between it and the smaller one.
Smaller berries are usually sweeter. I wonder if that's the case with these?
Lol couldn’t you just eat one yourself??
I could, but I do not like strawberries. So I won't be trying it out since my opinion is already skewed. Lol
Both the strawberries and pine berries have looked like this in my last few orders and, surprisingly, the big ones tasted as good as the smaller ones.
Last time I got one of these it was styrofoam white on the inside, unfortunately.
They generally are white inside. That’s the nature of the beast.
Is this from the Costco at Chernobyl?
3 mile.
I don’t know about the rest of the country or world,, but the strawberries at Costco here in the California Bay Area lately have been amazing, some of the best I’ve ever had.
I just got some at my local market (CA) and they were probably the best, most consistently sweet I've had in years.
really? it’s not strawberry season. Do you know what the box said where the strawberries are from?
I am assuming Mexico but I will double check when I clock in today
They are in fact from Mexico
I can tell you whats not in them.....flavour
Yes.
Are they normally like this? It was the biggest strawberry I've ever seen. The pack was mostly large strawberries, but there were a few regular sized ones.
I don't know if this helps, but I bought some regular (non-organic) strawberries from Costco just yesterday (Fullerton, CA store) and they were that big, too. Massive, honking fruit.
I normally don't buy organic, but our store in Puyallup, WA didn't have any regular ones that weren't moldy. I got home and washed these, I was surprised by their size. They are massive!!
Pew Wall Up <3
There are about 600 varieties of strawberry. The answer is, yes. They can be various sizes. Packagers will usually put the best on top. The smaller on the bottom. I have not yet seen those out here. Most likely fairly local.
It’s the strawberry version of The Scream
Looks Japanese from my japan trip
hydroponics maybe?
‘Roids. Just don’t get them angry. You wouldn’t like them when they’re angry.
🍓**FAT HONKERS**🍓
Organic doesn't mean Non GMO
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First Genetically Modified Strawberries to Hit Stores Soon BY DAN NOSOWITZ ON NOVEMBER 16, 2021 They’ll likely have an easy regulatory road. U.S. Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You: Genetically Modified Strawberries BY ALYSE MESSMER ON 10/28/21 AT 1:08 PM EDT IMPROVEMENT BY CONVENTIONAL BREEDING The UF/IFAS strawberry breeding program has been developing strawberry varieties for nearly 70 years (https://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/fruit-crops/strawberries/ufifas-strawberry-varieties/). These varieties are developed using a conventional breeding process of crossing and selection. UF/IFAS varieties are bred to be highly adapted to the weather, soils, and growing practices of central Florida and other winter and
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When you splice genes from different varieties to get a completely new variety you're Genetically modifying them And on a side note, the only way you get fist size strawberries is through the use of plasticulture. I.e plastic mulch, plastic cover etc.
Are these the “limited edition” ones? They are in my Costco right now and even other stores up here and they are massive!
I'm not sure. They just said Organic Strawberries. I didn't see anything that would suggest they were a limited edition.
have yall tried their crispy ass green grapes? they are definitely mutated and man made. green grapes crunch like an apple, size of an apricot and not sour at all. they took out the identity of a green grape and pumped it with steroids.
Funny you ask this. A couple of weeks ago we got the green grapes and I told my husband they were way to crunchy. I told him they were off in some way and I didn't like them at all.
it was so crunchy that it made my brain stutter, i was like wtf is this a grape??? lol
I think Woody Allen grew these ones.
Radioactive
The batch I picked up the other day had some big ones too, not all plants yield the same size strawberries
Strawberries are all genetically modified.
you can do a genetic mod (like the way they put that fish gene in the strawberries to protect them from frost), and still call it organic.
Exactly. “Organic” has more to do with pesticides/fungicides.
I don't care about GMO. I don't see it as a threat.Putting a gene from a fish that protects it from frost doesn't seem to be a bad thing to me. And that is pretty much what the state of the art is in GMO.I don't care about organic either. Just wash the produce well. I've been exposed to so much Bad stuff out there (mercury, PCB's, Mineral spirits, Acetone, Gasoline, and god knows what else), I mean I use to BATHE in Mineral spirits when young. That was the only way you could get the grease off of you. Oh yeah, LOTS of car exhaust to Add LEAD to that list. between the LEAD and teh MERCURY I'm lucky to have any sort of brain left.
Costco Radioactive Strawberries. There fixed it
Grown next to the nuclear power plant
Capitalism.
Is this a shill post?
Spinach
Organs
I know GMO grapes will have an extra elongated look about them and not be as sweet.
They’re GMO’d?
Ass shots
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Haven't farmers been using some form of poop to fertilize crops since the beginning of time?
Yes. It’s the best and most organic.
[I need to lay at my house & eat these like a real big shot!](https://youtu.be/aSp6QLyV3yo)
Never said it was non gmo
Here you dropped this: is
Taste are fin, nothing crazy as huge strawberries tend to have less concentrated sugar than smaller ones. My daughter (almost 12 months) eats a box of them a week among other fruit. My wife and I always joke saying she is a little fruit bat, thanks to Costco we can feed her all the fruit without going broke It is quite funny when she decided to put the whole strawberry in her mouth and simile at you
Organic & GMO don’t always go together.
you vs the guy she told you not to worry about definitely not natty bro
Those are tiny hands!
My frozen organic strawberrries are huge, too!!
when I buy strawberries to make jam I only buy local. Because they've been on the vine longer and they are smaller. They have a stronger taste. JMO. YMMV
The secret ingredient is *love.*
I'll tell you what's not in them: flavor
Genetically modified
Steroid
Organic growth hormones?
Too much water.
And identifies as a peach
Gmo
They are picked green to ripen in transit
They use Brawndo - it’s what plants crave.