A strawberry puzzle

Can any one shed some light on this....

I have 2 strawberry plants, both had the same mother, they are in identical post with the same soil/compost both in the same position and have been treated in the same way but only 1 is producing flowers and fruit.

How can this be?

Nature.

This is natural selection.....survival of the fittest........evolution.
The stronger plant is flowering and will probably throw off runners. In the wild this means the stronger plant is more likely to reproduce first and colonise the area with plants with the stronger genes thus ousting the weaker sibling.
Ain't Nature wonderful!

But they're not the same plant are they?

They may be genetically identical, but one will have come off a different runner or from the same runner at a different distance from the parent. One may have been slightly more mature than the other etc. etc.

These slight initial variations have a knock on effect which can lead to a noticeable variation between the two.

Next year it my have more than the other...

   good point