Strawberries not fruiting

Hi all....
As a complete newbie, I wanted to try growing Strawberries
I took seeds from shop bought fruit (unknown verity), and grew last year in diy grow box with chillies..

Chillies did really well, but thought flowering, no Strawberries...
After research, I concluded that they wouldn't fruit 1st year....
They made it through the winter, with very little help from me and after dividing and filling the box (no chillies this year), they really took off this year...

I have had plenty of flowers, and they seem to have been pollinated, but then look to have just stopped...

Don't think its under watering.....
Over watering ?? 2ish ltrs per level every couple of days....
OR.... am I just being impatient....

 

I'd wait a bit longer, but growing strawberries from supermarket fruit is probably not the best way of going about it, it works with peppers, as you know, but none of this stuff will come true from seed, so always an unknown quantity.

 

There are two possibilities:

1. Those strawberry seeds are from some kind of high-performance hybrid. Chances are the children only receive some of the traits and not necessarily the best ones

2. Just give them time. Most perennial plants don't bloom in the first year. So give them another year and you will probably see results

 

Quite a lot of F1 plants grown commercially, so the offspring unlikely to be any good for seed saving/using.

 

Thanks everyone...x

I'll give then the rest of the year, just to see, you never know, (eternal optimist) and start fresh next season..
xx

 

If you decide to buy some strawberry plants it would be best to get them started in late summer so that they get rooted before winter and be raring to go next spring.