Thank you, David, for that information.

The two books that I acquire today ("Growing Fruits in Hawaii" by Kathy Oshiro and "Gardening in Hawai'i" by Peggy Hickok Hodge) does talk about strawberry plants in Hawaii. The books said that the strawberry bear fruit and can be harvested in December to June.

No worries. I'll have to check out those books, sound like great sources for HI-grown info. So we should be watching for berries anytime now...Can't wait...MMmmm.....

There's a web page up that says they are being grown commercially in higher, cooler areas of Maui and Hawai'i.

Yeah, I read that old article.

Here in Kailua it's pretty much year-round for fruit production. I had several "alexandria" alpine strawberry plants that grew very nicely and always had fruit on them but unfortunately they died while I was in Taiwan (nobody watered them =( )....For the larger regular strawberries, I have "quinault" (Everbearing) and "eversweet" (Day-Neutral) which bloom at monthly intervals and seem to produce more fruit in the spring.

Put out slug poison because the slugs and snails love all parts of the strawberry plant. I grow mine under several peach trees so that they receive some shade. Also, remove any runners that form and flowers for the first year so that the energy of the plant will go into establishing itself and thus bigger and more fruit....I know this is really hard to do, but in the long-term it's worth it. =)

hope this helped!

Thank you Sean!

Well, the cold weather we are having currently in Hawaii, I presumed, made some of the strawberry from Home Depot flower! I know that I should take Sean's advice about cutting the runner and flower off for the first year, but I think I'll leave some of the plants to flower and other to have runners. Usually when the runners establish roots I quickly cut it from the mother plant, this way I could continue propagating the plants.

My strawberry vines are growing well but the berries will not ripen nicely. They end up all mutated and mushy on one side. I am in the Wailua Homesteads of Kauai. Any suggestions on what to do?

I grow strawberries, but not in Hawaii. They don't like to have their roots dry out, but they also don't like to have the crowns wet. If the crowns stay too wet too long, they mildew.

Because strawberries are grown commercially in both Southern California and Florida, I would just assume that the air temperature would not be that big an issue. I'd be looking at controlling the moisture.

Don't let the strawberry fruits touch the soil, mulch it with straws if it's not too windy where you are, otherwise mulch with heavier materials like wood chips. Mulch will keep the soil temperature and moisture constant to a degree, and will keep the soil from splashing on the underside of the leaves and on fruits.

This is one of another plant that I stop growing, slugs and snails are a big problem for me, and I needed more space for other plants. Mulching the plants did encourage those pest, and I even planted it on a 4 feet large container, but those small variety of snails somehow could climb up and slightly damage the fruits.