Varieties with an early fruiting time

Varieties with an early fruiting time (very early and early):

Varieties fruiting at the beginning of the season, from the end of May or the beginning of June*. Fruits may appear very early, before other varieties.

Our nursery includes one of the best early varieties available, chosen by us in terms of attractiveness, firmness and very good fruit taste. At the same time, they are suitable for growing in our national conditions. Among the earliest and best strawberry varieties are BL39*Arianna®, Rumba and Vibrant, as well as the new varieties in our range: Flair, Holy and Falco. One of the earliest and best varieties of strawberries on the market is BL39*Arianna® is a variety producing attractive, tasty and firm fruit with good shelf life. It ripens 3 days earlier than Alba and has low susceptibility to soil-borne diseases. Flair is one of the earliest dessert strawberry varieties, producing attractive fruit with an aromatic, truly “strawberry-like” flavour. Holy is an early Polish strawberry variety with high yield potential, reaching up to approximately 1.2 kg per plant. Falco is a productive mid-early variety producing large, tasty fruit approximately 3 days earlier than Elsanta. The average fruit weight can exceed 28 grams. Vibrant makes it possible to harvest large, well-shaped and delicious fruit with excellent post-harvest shelf life as early as the second half of May*. Under suitable growing conditions, up to 50% of the crop can be harvested 3–4 days before Clery. Only around 2–3 days later, Honeoye, a leading very early variety that has been popular for many years, begins to ripen.

Another method that allows obtaining very early fruits is their production from A-, A +, A ++ Frigo plants. Seedlings produce first fruits in 6-8 weeks after planting (e.g. if planted in mid-March, should be fruiting at the beginning - or at the latest in the middle - of May). Thanks to this, they allow to obtain fruits from any variety even in the first year, even before the earliest varieties. More information about Frigo strawberry plants can be found here.

In the case of very early and early planted Frigo varieties, it is vital to remember protecting its flowers against spring frosts. They are exposed to them due to early flowering time (yet fruits themselves are not exposed to frost).

*The fruiting time involves traditional cultivation in Poland (Central Europe, moist continental climate) with standard weather conditions. The exact time of strawberries fruiting depends on the local climate, weather conditions in a given season as well as cultivation methods.