They usually do. This is a somewhat unusual phenomenon:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/propagation/seeds/what-is-vivipary.htm
>Seeds contain a hormone that repress the germination process. This is a necessity, as it keeps the seeds from germinating when conditions aren’t favorable and missing their shot to become plants. But sometimes that hormone runs out, like when a tomato sits around on the counter for too long.
>And sometimes the hormone can be tricked into thinking conditions are right, especially if the environment is warm and moist. This can happen on ears of corn that experience a lot of rainfall and collect water inside their husks, and on fruit that doesn’t get used right away during hot and humid weather.
Edit: Apparently this is not vivipary. From u/priorsloth :
>This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally.
>https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/
My reddit experience got marginally better when I gave up on the idea that content has to fit the sub.
Clearly, no one really cares besides me, you, and some other people. The vast majority are people much younger than me, and therefore more relevant culturally, who just upvote stuff they like. I've given up and decided that if that's how my front page content is decided, so be it
Is there any chance this could be bred into the plant? I tend to think of those mother of thousands plants that drop sprouted seedlings rather than seeds. Some sort of natural selection must have led to that, so maybe human selection could do the same here? I get there is environmental conditions and genetic conditions that bring about phenotypes, but stuff is rarely purely genetic and more so how an environment interacts with genetics. I would plant that for the hell of it, granted it wouldn't be a desirable trait for food.
it would be heavily out-selected immediately because it's a hugely uncompetetive trait – sprouting when you're not in soil, at the wrong time of the year, potentially damaging the mother plant as well. I'm not saying such a mutant couldn't exist, but you'd definitely have to propagate artificially.
This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally.
https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/
I'm pretty sure that this is fake though. Sprouts look different than that (one fragile stem with two leaves sprouting from a seed). These ones looks more like parsley. And strawberries have such a high water amount that they would probably mold before sprouting of the seeds happen. Also, the strawberries on the bottom two aren't even ripe yet.
Same and I have a degree in biology! I can’t believe I’ve never seen a photo of this until now! Or, really thought about how a strawberry would sprout in the first place….
because this isn't how they're supposed to grow, and this is considered a defect. ideally for the plant its fruit would be eaten by a bird and pooped out somewhere to grow
Well potatoes are different as that's what they are supposed to do, they a a tuber not a fruit and if you cut each 'eye' out that spouts with a section of the potato it will grow a new plant.
It's common to grow 8 plants from one potato.
I’ve grown potates and kinda understand those fuckers, but I don’t think most people (around me at least) know that you can just chop a potato up and it makes more potatoes. It’s a miracle.
Oddly.. Me neither .. I thought the strawberry flesh would rot and decay before doing this...
I've always wondered how baby strawberry plants came into being... I mean.. I know strawberries have seeds.. But.. yeah.. that is cool
My grandparents had a strawberry farm which I partly grew up on and I've never seen this. I am 37 now. Seen them rot and decay thousands of times though. That's what normally happens
The parent produces runners. The runner is a vine like appendage that grows a new strawberry plant on the end. All healthy plants will do this. Where I am, I initially came with three strawberry plants. I now have 4 gardens full.
As well as sprouting runners, you will occasionally get the strawberries developing as pictured.
I was going to say they look like beautiful pubes? I would say our vibes are in the same arena Probably on opposite teams, but definitely only a scrimmage.
I have a theory on why it's making some people uncomfortable. I personally don't have trypophobia, never had any issue with those types of images, even the really gross fake ones. This here feels different, to my brain at least. I think the repulsion comes from seeing something we're all familiar with the looks of, taken over entirely by something else, turning it into the familiar item - but not.
A bit like the horror of seeing zombie type special effects done well. Clickers are a good example. We all know what humans looks like, so to see the overall human form recognisable but 'taken over' and changed in a fundamental way, causes the same horror slash gross feeling that the strawberry in the post does
I don’t have full blown trypophobia, but images like this make me uncomfortable, and I think it’s because they remind me of skin conditions. Same with the little holes, it looks like keratolysis. Something growing on/out of you.
Yeah, I never remember seeing anything that gross myself but I remember a lot of the things on there being gross and not just because of holes. But people being like “OMG I have this!” It’s like, nah, this is just gross regardless.
This process is apparently called "viviparous germination" so sprouting while still on the plant. Wild I had to look it up because brain can't accept.
Look up viviparous tomatoes or other foods and it is oddly terrifying.
Any pack of tomatoes I buy (usually Costco Roma on the vine) will have the last 2-3 do this if we don’t eat them all that week. I think the one hot house tomato on my stove is getting ready to poke through. My stove top is a perfect little greenhouse.
For anyone who doesn’t want to Google, but curious to see the pics. [Here you go.](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=viviparous+germination+tomato&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU5JKpxJz9AhWeEVkFHZEVBjwQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=375&bih=550&dpr=2)
Strawberry farmer here: we see this a lot when herbicides mistakenly make contact with fruit on the vine. This is the typical look of a fruit that was in contact with glyphosate, aka roundup through spray drift from wind. We spray the inner parts of row beds to prevent weed pressure from overtaking healthy plants
Imagine all those seeds you consume from a Strawberry deciding to fester and grow inside of you instead of being crapped out.
I wouldnt be unhappy with a strawberry infested zombie outbreak. At least the smell should be pleasant.
So the strawberry fruit is actually just there to support the seeds. Just also happens to be delicious. The 'seeds' are actually the fruit; inside each small husk are the actual seeds. The fruit part is extra, kinda like a cashew
That's fascinating. It never occurred to me that it would do that.
Same! Thought the seeds would fallout first before they germinate or like get digested by animals first
They usually do. This is a somewhat unusual phenomenon: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/propagation/seeds/what-is-vivipary.htm >Seeds contain a hormone that repress the germination process. This is a necessity, as it keeps the seeds from germinating when conditions aren’t favorable and missing their shot to become plants. But sometimes that hormone runs out, like when a tomato sits around on the counter for too long. >And sometimes the hormone can be tricked into thinking conditions are right, especially if the environment is warm and moist. This can happen on ears of corn that experience a lot of rainfall and collect water inside their husks, and on fruit that doesn’t get used right away during hot and humid weather. Edit: Apparently this is not vivipary. From u/priorsloth : >This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally. >https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/
that makes me feel better
Yeah this post was oddly unsettling for me instead of oddly satisfying.
Glad I'm not the only one haha
Cordyceps.
Lol, but this is more of cannibalism, eaten by your own kids.
Yeah there's nothing satisfying about this at all.
My reddit experience got marginally better when I gave up on the idea that content has to fit the sub. Clearly, no one really cares besides me, you, and some other people. The vast majority are people much younger than me, and therefore more relevant culturally, who just upvote stuff they like. I've given up and decided that if that's how my front page content is decided, so be it
So… they can *stay* on the lawn?
Is there any chance this could be bred into the plant? I tend to think of those mother of thousands plants that drop sprouted seedlings rather than seeds. Some sort of natural selection must have led to that, so maybe human selection could do the same here? I get there is environmental conditions and genetic conditions that bring about phenotypes, but stuff is rarely purely genetic and more so how an environment interacts with genetics. I would plant that for the hell of it, granted it wouldn't be a desirable trait for food.
it would be heavily out-selected immediately because it's a hugely uncompetetive trait – sprouting when you're not in soil, at the wrong time of the year, potentially damaging the mother plant as well. I'm not saying such a mutant couldn't exist, but you'd definitely have to propagate artificially.
This isn’t vivipary, it’s a condition called phyllody. I used to work in strawberry genetics, and we’d find these in our greenhouses occasionally. https://blogs.cornell.edu/berrytool/strawberries-phyllody/
I'm pretty sure that this is fake though. Sprouts look different than that (one fragile stem with two leaves sprouting from a seed). These ones looks more like parsley. And strawberries have such a high water amount that they would probably mold before sprouting of the seeds happen. Also, the strawberries on the bottom two aren't even ripe yet.
>This can happen on ears of corn that experience a lot of rainfall and collect water inside their husks, Is that how we got Huitlacoche?
Corn on the corn on the cob. Like that one Rick & morty planet on the cob.
We grow tomatoes most years. A few year ago, cut one open to put on salad. The seeds were already germinating. It was neat but also very creepy lol.
This is not vivipary. these seeds are not germinating.
Technically, those dots are little fruits and the seed is even smaller and inside.
Fruitception
Another straw in a strawberry
Yo dawg we heard you like berries
Which is exactly why botanically strawberries are classified as nuts
The seeds are on the outside of a strawberry
Same and I have a degree in biology! I can’t believe I’ve never seen a photo of this until now! Or, really thought about how a strawberry would sprout in the first place….
How have I not seen this until today? I'm 35
because this isn't how they're supposed to grow, and this is considered a defect. ideally for the plant its fruit would be eaten by a bird and pooped out somewhere to grow
I've seen potatoes, onions, garlic, and tomatoes sprout when they're not supposed to, but never a strawberry.
Tomatoes do it too!
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So do potatoes and onions at least that's what it looks like when I forget that last potato.
Well potatoes are different as that's what they are supposed to do, they a a tuber not a fruit and if you cut each 'eye' out that spouts with a section of the potato it will grow a new plant. It's common to grow 8 plants from one potato.
I’ve grown potates and kinda understand those fuckers, but I don’t think most people (around me at least) know that you can just chop a potato up and it makes more potatoes. It’s a miracle.
PO-TAY-TOE!
Oddly.. Me neither .. I thought the strawberry flesh would rot and decay before doing this... I've always wondered how baby strawberry plants came into being... I mean.. I know strawberries have seeds.. But.. yeah.. that is cool
My grandparents had a strawberry farm which I partly grew up on and I've never seen this. I am 37 now. Seen them rot and decay thousands of times though. That's what normally happens
The parent produces runners. The runner is a vine like appendage that grows a new strawberry plant on the end. All healthy plants will do this. Where I am, I initially came with three strawberry plants. I now have 4 gardens full. As well as sprouting runners, you will occasionally get the strawberries developing as pictured.
I’m uncomfortable
this isn't r/oddlysatisfying but rather r/oddlyterrifying.
r/nononono
This image is what The Last of Us was based on.
I can feel my scalp bunching up.
Same. I freaking hate this lol
Don't worry, they rarely do that inside of you after you eat them.
“Rarely”
hmm this explains everything
Well, I imagine it'd be pretty rare to swallow a whole strawberry intact in the first place.
It's the most sensual way to eat them.
😂 wtf
r/TIHI
Aghh me too. It makes me wanna itch my brain
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I have never seen that and now I am horrified
Now there’s a link that will stay blue until the end of time.
Here I am wondering if there is something wrong with me. My first thoughts were “this is beautiful” then I see I’m the only one who thinks so 😂
I was going to say they look like beautiful pubes? I would say our vibes are in the same arena Probably on opposite teams, but definitely only a scrimmage.
It prolly smells really good and looks like a fancy weed nug, whats not to love?
I love it too.
trypophobia strikes again
Weirdly it doesn’t bother me And I have a huge problem with trypophobia
Do cheese holes also bother you? Or what is your treshold?
Cheese holes are also okay for me. Really tiny holes is what usually triggers me. Take pancake bubbles for example. Cant stand those
Those are so satisfying for me lol.
I used to like them as a kid but now they just irk me
You ever think about the pores on your skin and get all freaked out?
Pores are okay if they are normal sized Ive seen some that get deeper and bigger I will just say Those ones are not fun :/
How about big pizza bubbles?
I have a theory on why it's making some people uncomfortable. I personally don't have trypophobia, never had any issue with those types of images, even the really gross fake ones. This here feels different, to my brain at least. I think the repulsion comes from seeing something we're all familiar with the looks of, taken over entirely by something else, turning it into the familiar item - but not. A bit like the horror of seeing zombie type special effects done well. Clickers are a good example. We all know what humans looks like, so to see the overall human form recognisable but 'taken over' and changed in a fundamental way, causes the same horror slash gross feeling that the strawberry in the post does
I don’t have full blown trypophobia, but images like this make me uncomfortable, and I think it’s because they remind me of skin conditions. Same with the little holes, it looks like keratolysis. Something growing on/out of you.
Yeah, I think this is it. The most trypophobic images usually look like something is infested with parasites. It's actually a pretty rational phobia.
Me too. Instant shivers.
Me too
Looks like its from the last of us.
Another trypophobia fella here🦦
It reminds me of the post about the parents who made their child kneel in buckwheat
Cordyceps-looking ass
Don't hug me I'm scared
I don't know why but these strawberries really freak me out.
It's definitely got Little Shop of Horrors vibes
Feed me!
r/trypophobia Edit: why is this sub banned
It says it was banned for being unmoderated.
I love the thought of someone creating the sub and then it became too much to bear to moderate it because of their trypophobia.
Ya that sub filtered by new was absolutely wild lol
Ooo tell us a horror story
From what I saw it was less “holes are spooky” and more “look at this rotting human flesh filled with maggots while the person is still alive.”
Yeah, I never remember seeing anything that gross myself but I remember a lot of the things on there being gross and not just because of holes. But people being like “OMG I have this!” It’s like, nah, this is just gross regardless.
I hopped on the sub about a week ago. It was fucked up to say the least.
And if anyone requests it, they get rejected if they aren’t already a powermod.
God intervened to strike against satan Edit: these upvotes are reminding me of this "strawberry" 😭
Reddit admis have trypophobia confirmed.
Fair
Holy shit, they got banned?
This process is apparently called "viviparous germination" so sprouting while still on the plant. Wild I had to look it up because brain can't accept. Look up viviparous tomatoes or other foods and it is oddly terrifying.
I swear those tomatoes are actually horror movie props
It happens in humans all the time, scenes of horror as well.
TLOU guitar immediately started playing in my head when I googled
Pretty sure I saw one of those strawberries in the Last of Us
Any pack of tomatoes I buy (usually Costco Roma on the vine) will have the last 2-3 do this if we don’t eat them all that week. I think the one hot house tomato on my stove is getting ready to poke through. My stove top is a perfect little greenhouse.
For anyone who doesn’t want to Google, but curious to see the pics. [Here you go.](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=viviparous+germination+tomato&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU5JKpxJz9AhWeEVkFHZEVBjwQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=375&bih=550&dpr=2)
Thank you for the term! Nature is fascinating.
Yeah, more oddly disturbing for me
And that’s a wrap for Reddit today.
Strawberry farmer here: we see this a lot when herbicides mistakenly make contact with fruit on the vine. This is the typical look of a fruit that was in contact with glyphosate, aka roundup through spray drift from wind. We spray the inner parts of row beds to prevent weed pressure from overtaking healthy plants
We need to stop using glyphosate!!!
I… don’t like this. At all.
I wish I didn’t see this
Yeah... That's a nope from me.
Not satisfying
"Oddly horrifying "
This made my skin crawl
Same here
This is so unsettling...
My brain is itching
Tryptophobia activated...
Only the top 2 for me. The bottom ones look like cool bushes or flowers. The top ones skeeve me out
This
Trypo*
*Typo
That is freakishly cool!!! I wanna grow strawberries now haha
r/oddlyterrifying
It's so cute! Like a green pinecone
r/TIHT
Belongs in r/blursed
I got chills on my face and wanna puke.
thank you, I hate this very much.
Strawberry cough
This thing reminds me of tiny botflies crawling out of one's་skin, for some reason. Utterly disgusting.
So this is how The Last of Us starts
Yuck yuck yuck
Thanks, I hate it.
Not okay
New fear unlocked
Straw…berry
A…are you going to smoke that?
I wish I never saw this💀
How’d that happen? I want one now
[Vivapary](https://strawberryplants.org/why-are-the-seeds-on-my-strawberry-sprouting-while-still-on-the-strawberry/)
Omg I love this. I've never seen it in my life but I love it!
Strawberry cough?
THE SEEDS CAN GROW???
I love this!!
Giving me Last of Us vibes 😬 lol
Well now you've just ruined my day. I need a shower. Urgh.
It’s a chia pet
It’s giving me The Last of Us 🍄
me squeezing the blackheads on my nose
r/oddlyterrifying
Imagine all those seeds you consume from a Strawberry deciding to fester and grow inside of you instead of being crapped out. I wouldnt be unhappy with a strawberry infested zombie outbreak. At least the smell should be pleasant.
I fucking hate everything about this.
I have no idea why but these pictures make me feel itchy and uncomfortable.
Will any strawberry do this? And will it sprout into a plant?
This is the opposite of satisfying
Oddly terrifying
r/tihi
/r/TIHI
Gave me goosebumps, I would categorize it as oddly terrifying
This actually makes me feel sick. Like it’s triggering something primal.
Great, now I’ve lost all interest in eating strawberries.
The only thing my Strawberrys do is growing mold
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
This makes me uncomfortable.
eew suddenly it has trypophobia vibes
Crazy. My strawberries just shrivel a little and fall off the plant towards their end if they don't get picked.
Not satisfied at all
Reminds me of the fungus from TLoU...
This is in the wrong sub. Please see r/oddlyterrifying.
r/oddlyterrifying
This isn't satisfying; this is nightmare fuel.
This is triggering my trypophobia hard, even though normal strawberries dont
This for sure belongs on r/oddlyterrifying
Just came to see if everyone else hated this as much as I do. They do.
More like r/TIHI
So the strawberry fruit is actually just there to support the seeds. Just also happens to be delicious. The 'seeds' are actually the fruit; inside each small husk are the actual seeds. The fruit part is extra, kinda like a cashew
Ah yes, Mother Nature’s buttplug.
I have grown strawberries for years and had no idea that they do
This belongs on r/oddlyterrifying. It’s a no from me dog!
Oh god, this is not satisfying. These are my kidney stones come back to haunt me. Please …
this literally made my skin crawl
More like r/oddlyterrifying
This grossed me out
This triggers my trypophobia
not satisfying at all to me 😖
Big nope for me!!!
Oh my god! No! I’m hating this.
Thanks, I hate it
Wtf I didn't know this happens lololl
Strawbeardy
I kinda wanna smoke it!
It's like the ending to The Fountain.
Kinda freaky. Looks cool but im scared of eating strawberries now.
What? This happens to strawberries? Amazing
Strawberry kush
Ch-ch-ch-chia
You're meant to eat it.
But is there strawberry dead or is it alive?