Hey there, Lemmy. I've been wondering if anyone here has any tips on specifically sprouting alpine strawberries for hydroponics.

My usual two methods for hydroponic seeds are "Chuck it in some wet growth media and see" or "sprout the seeds in a damp paper towel and then put them into the growth media once sprouted," but my alpine strawberry seeds don't seem to be loving the first method, and the extremely fine size of strawberry seeds makes me hesitate about the second method.

I have a volunteer woodland strawberry in my porch garden that I love, and I'm fairly sure alpine strawberries are just woodland strawberries in a fancy hat, but I really want some hydroponic strawberries for winter harvests. A lot of the tips I've found online have either been for hydroponic standard strawberries or for sprouting alpine strawberries in dirt, but worst of all, hydroponics sprouting article results are absolutely teeming with AI slop that I do not trust at all. Does anyone here have some advice? Do I need to cold stratify them or something?

Thanks!