How to Grow Strong Strawberry Plants by pinching runners and blossoms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Growing strawberries takes patience. If you have the patience stop the plant from fruiting the first year and to cut down all runners, years 2 through 4 will give you a tremendous yield of delicious home grown strawberries. Watering tips, mold issues are also discussed.
I would randomly place 6 water bottle into the ground. So whenever I need to water the plants I'll just pour it in the water bottles that way it'll go straight into the ground instead of letting it flood the top to kill the berries! Get a few empty 2 litres bottles poke holes all around it(random places) with lil pins/sm.nail so it can leak out slowly! And that'll save you time watering. Just check on it every once in a while to fill it! Btw awesome garden bud congrats!
Could you make a video showing your method? I'm interested in learning all I can about growing strawberries. Thanks for your input.
I am thinking about this...
I was diligent in cutting all the flowers and runners the first year and this spring my strawberries look amazingly healthy. I cant wait. I got a french variety and am soo excited to have my own fresh strawberries. I refuse to eat those nasty tasteless rocks they sell in the stores. It certainly looks like the effort paid off. This year I can start new plants from the runners to keep these going. Good tips here!
Hi! This is my first time planting strawberries and it started to grow some flowers. May ask until when im supposed to cut the flowers?
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I just git my first batch of strawberry plants. I did not know how to plant the so i had to re-plant. Now bc of u I know what to do with them the first year. Thank s.
Very nice and explains a lot of why to make sure you get nothing at ALL the first year of strawberry sprouting and growth for LARGE and DEEP strong plants.
I have strawberries overtaking my garden. There are more runners than the London marathon. I've been having to weed out strawberry plants from my spinach next door. Impressively strawberry plants have crossed the path of paving to start growing on the lawn. I get at least 3 good crops of fruit every year.
In Taiwan, The runners start to boom in May when temperature getting hotter. Flowering booms in September when getting cooler. i. e., the runner grows fast in summer due to the temperature rises. So, simply apply shed to cool down, thus, slow down runners growing.
Thanks for this information.
Thanks so much! Extremely educational. Lots more info than typical lessons.
Very helpful information. I'm having 25 plants right now, 7 months already but they give very few flowers and some little green strawberry. I will cut off the runners to focus on the roots growing stronger. I hope they'll give me more sweet strawberries next year.
A good tip when growing strawberries, is to put straw down when the strawberries start forming to stop them touching the soil
Should mulch be applied during the hot summer days in the tropics?
Debbie Excell you can do but I would still lay some straw over the mulch where your strawberries will rest, the mulch is damp and can cause the fruit to rot. You can substitute the straw for anything that will protect your fruit from the floor but still provide some air circulation.
Thank you, makes sense!!
I didn't have straw so I used my brown leaves from tree, u think th as I fine?
WideAwake * That does sound ok. If it doesn't then at least you tried something. We learn as they grow.
This was very helpful, thank you! I just planted bare roots this year and am trying to do my best to take good care of them from the get-go. We’ve gotten a lot of Berries so far this first season, but I didn’t realize I needed to Clip the runners. SO, now I’ve got my work cut out for me lol 🍓
in the Philippines we grow strawberry in our backyard planted in recycled bottled water, it grows and yield fruits. this way can easily transfer to a protected area during typhoon and flood. I think the idea is also applicable in some other places like in non tropic one.
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I bought strawberry plants in April and I saw a video to cut the flowers of and the runners for 6 weeks it's been 6 weeks but my strawberry plants do not look good they look so small so I think that cutting the flowers and the runners for a year makes sence to grow strong roots thank you for your advice and I will wait for next year for my strawberry plants to grow.
Very informative vedio Thanks for sharing Watching from South Korea
Finally! A great informative video! Thank you!
commercially the growers prep in august, plant in september, take all leaves after first frost then mulch heavily till spring when the plants burst forth with huge berries
Here I was getting angry. I was ready to complain to Lowe’s that I wanted my $60-$70 back. I thought they sold me a bad batch of strawberries. Still first year here, and I am about to stay on top of trimming those runners! Thanks.
So what does it mean if u get strawberries the first year. He is saying that that don't happen.. mine are fruiting. First time with them
What did you do with all of those berries? I hope you picked every one of them. You had a TON of them ready for picking. Unreal. I just propagated about 30 new ones and still have a bunch of new ones that need transplanting. So rewarding !
Very informative, thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for the Information. Very helpful. I am in year 1 and will do as you suggest.
If I don't pinch the first year and get 20 strawberries per plant, and if I do pinch and get nothing the first year and the plant gives me 25 percent more the following year that means I get 25 berries the 2nd year from a pinched plant. If I don't pinch and get 20 the first year and get the same amount the second year that means I get 40 strawberries in two years compared to 25, so the math tells me not to pinch, what do you think? hmm
But if I don't pinch in year one I don't get any in year three and beyond.
I'm surprised you didn't have straw down. It would help retain moisture and keep the berries up out of the dirt.
Beautiful strawberry patch.
I'm just letting my mother plant produce whatever it wants to produce. Strawberries, runners. But ok, I do get the message, will take better care of the new plants 😜
Great information bro nice plants I have 4 plants by my sunny window indoor hope it fruit
I put grass clipping around my strawberry plants, as it helps keep the soil we after watering & keeps the strawberries off the dirt and prevents them from molding. Can also use straw or hay of available. My first year of strawberries & we are enjoying eating them.
Awesome tips!
Thank you. This was really useful.
I've got 2 strawberry plants at 3 months old and I'm pulling at least a half dozen a week.
Do you continue cutting the runners off your mature strawberry plants 2-3 year old) or just let them do what they do in your fenced garden?
I recon strawberrys grow the same in Australia. I'll take your knowable advice. Thanks mate
Thank you, great info!
Thank you
Great looking garden!! :)
Great video. The step by step help to take notes. I am growing 6 plants in my last years' Straw bales garden. Even though Straw bales sometimes stay moist., I am planing putting a layer of plastic (like collar) around the based to prevent leaves getting wet. What do you think?
Your strawberries look so delicious! With what and how often do you fertilize your plants? Thanks
Avoid mould by laying straw around your plants... it'll also keep the fruits clean.
That's the first thing I thought about
Or wood mulch
Ricardo Haßelbeck it does sound like a runner to me! Look up on the internet strawberry runner and see if it looks the same. I would suggest taking that runner off and letting the plant grow some more, as I took my runner off and it grew loads and is now sending out another runner!! If it’s a long stem coming out of the plant then it should be a runner. After the plant looks really big and full, keep the runner on and let it reproduce by pinning it into the soil where the leaves form. Take off all flowers too in the first year, to let it put all its energy into reproducing and growing bigger, and then let it flower and fruit in the second year. It seems like a waste, but you’ll end up with really nice fruit and loads more plants!!!
Ricardo Haßelbeck my plant sent out a runner quite early but as I said I decided to take it off and it’s grown more and sent out another 👌🏽
Ricardo Haßelbeck Hahahah no worries I love to help! It’s so exciting I love it so much and I’m glad you enjoy it too😆 have an even better day! Thank you
The information was clear and the samples or examples shown were appreciated. Pity you had removed the blossoms before making the video.
I've never seen a strawberry plant before and I am pretty new to growing strawberries.
I would appreciate it if you could clarify for me: do you plant in partial shade or full sun? I have heard conflicting views since I've begun my research.
Amazing tips, thank you!
I have squirrels that steal my berries too! Does just putting chicken wire around the plants (and not over the top) keep them out?! I've tried everything!!
I think i am just going to cut the first blooms of every season and constantly cut the runners. The runners i will plant and wait at least a year before i let them bloom. I don't like waiting that long especially for something that is so good to eat.
does water on pepper plants also create mold, on the ends appearing like end rot? the plants were doing wonderful until my mother started watering. she doesn't water near the roots but showers the entire plant every time
When you cut first year blooms, do you cut just below the bloom, or to the base?
Base of u cut just below the bloom the stem will be left and will waste the plant a bit of energy and that stem can cause diease if it starts to rot better to most of that stem
thanks this really helps
i have some brown edges on my strawberries and i am very concerned! A bunch of little flowers came up and it seems like they are the strawberries, but they are hard and green still for weeks. What should I do?
always first Friday of the mo.
im not patient enough to let a whole year of strawberries go :(
It s ok you will buy some of them ,sry for the answer after 5 years
Meg Webb that’s why your still single 👰🏼
LOL
After results are worth it
Lol
The varieties of strawberries I grow produce ample strawberries in the first year. That includes Florida Brilliance and Medallion. I pinch off the runners and just the first five or six flowers but then I lead them to produce. Waiting a whole year seems too long as the root systems are not that huge.
Very interesting, thank you. Subbed!
Very informative, thanks. So if you are growing them in a a pot, you do not want more then one single plant every 10-12 inches then, right? Is it ok to divide them up in summer time? Thanks
What do you do with the runners you cut off? Also if I cut a runner, can I put the runner in some soil and will it grow a new strawberry plant?
good advise people, all blooms and runners off first year to create good roots then second year all runners gone and u will have large strawberries and any subsequent year a lot of berriees but much smaller
Beautiful garden.. I’m jealous
never saw strawberry plants that big
Thank you so much. What would one use to furtulize the berries. And when😅
If I move, can I dig it out and replant them elsewhere in between the first and second year? Or should I just keep them in a pot if I'm not sure if I'm moving? Thanks
+Diet Pie Diaries have done that in my own yard - one side to a new garden sight. Then planted, I put hay over them until spring an d then took the straw off and fertilized w compost.
Great video pal cheers
I just bought a strawberry plant with flowers and small strawberries already on it. I just planted them in the ground. Should I pinch them or will that be too shocking since they were just planted.
I hope you pinched? What were your results?
so for the winter I just cover them with straw?
What region do you live at? I'm in the mountains in central California and I have strawberries for the first time. I'd like to know what kind of special care you gave them if any necessary during winter? Thanks!
This is a which verity strawberry plants.
Which weather suite for strawberry
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what are those tiny blue flowers you have next to the strawberries?
That depends on the type of strawberry plants. And you can also buy strong roots, All set to go. I did, planted in my house, march, and had big and plentiful strawberries in July, aug, sept... But the damn bugs... I need a good bug killer, but not chemicals, any suggestions?
Thank you, thats a good info
I'm a bit confused, I currently just replanted runners from my mother plant...so technically this will be the first season for them, but next year would be considered a year. Do I let them grow strawberries next summer or the summer after that?
Can I replant the runner I cut off?
Does anyone knows if it is too late to cut the runners and flowers is almost end of May
Wouldn't it just use the extra energy to re grow the runner? Especially if it puts off multiple???
i wont be patient but i plan on planting 2 or 3 different types and a friend is willing to give me one of her big ones. would it be a good idea keeping 1 blossum on each of the young since i wont be patient enough to wait and thats only if i dont get the big one or if it doesnt produce many?
super healthy strawberry. and many flowers. what variety of strawberry are those?
Did you know which variety?
Did you know which variety?
i saw runners,an awaiting to plant it as a plant will that produce fruit too
It's best to disconnect the runners once they have formed their own roots and plant them in their own space. This allows your original plant to put all of its energy into bearing fruit.
So if mine are in pots and hanging pots, should I let them hang out of the lots?? Is that better
Great i came on here to fine out what my srawberries were doing and they are just runners. Gfeag1more strawberries for me lol !
Which variety are your plants? When you withhold water, the sugar concentrates in the berries.
Why do not u add a mulch so the fruit will not touch the ground
How do you encourage plants to produce runners? I got mine last summer and no runners. Wanted to grow more plants to make strawberry garden. I live in Antioch part of Bay Area. The plant I gave to my parents who live in Bakersfield did grow runners. Does hot extreme weather stimulate runner production?
Question first yr with strawberries .. I live illinois . With winter around the corner do I just let plant alone and allow snow to fall on it n will it return come spring. Or do I need to protect it n maybe place in garage covered idk. Any input would help thanks .
What did you do? I heard a few inches of mulch is good.
I guess this is suitable for cold areas where you have short growing season.
Where I live, the 1st year strawberry plants are strong enough to produce best fruits. After the fruiting season the plants are focused on sending out runners for producing new plants. The 2nd year plants are too bushy, not airy for the leaves, and do not bloom and fruit well.
Runners can be propagated in water and NEW plants,
What do u do in the winter for the strawberry between first and second year? Leave them out there? And they revive in the summer on its own?
+Diet Pie Diaries yes!!! but in spring, compost or fertilize the plants, use compost tea and trickle it down around the plant , mix into soil.
Leave them outside.. Extremely hardy and will easily survive snow and frost..
true, and mine just keep making more and more plants!!! I have them all season long also. Into November some years!! I am in zone 5b Around the Fingerlakes region.
I'm letting the runners do their thing. Totally agree with everything you said, but I'm massively keen on growing them to maturity. So, I won't mind waiting two years. Thanks for the great advice.
i saw a plant here an brought it I am in the xaribbean an we new to it will it grow an produce I want taet a project we impoit so 8 can get plants from it,an mulyipke it
cut them off or root them quick in a plant pot when you have to many, plant them around so people who find them can eat
Sourcing strawberry seeds or plants is next to impossible in Jamaica. I was lucky enough to buy a fairly healthy plant recently. As a result I can hardly wait for runners to come up.
You can use dry straws to safe strawberry
Can the planted runners survive the winter in pots inside or outside. Our freeze happens in October and my plants just started shooting runners at the end of July.
Not nessary of they have good rots they'll be fine but if they small roots give them protection now if its a weak freeze you'll still need to protect the small roots if it's vey cold freeze you'll need to protect all I need to know where you like somewhere in USA etc and I'll tell u what to do
Have you ever just left them in the first year and not pinched the flowers to see the difference in yeild in the second year between the pinched plants and non pinched plants.
I've done this and it really doesn't seem to make much difference to me.
Good on Ya mate... its just what I was told by an old friend with with a green thumb. Keep it green.
Do you continue to clip runners on the 2-3 year plants?
No but if there's a bunch of runners yes because it will be no energy for the bigger runners and the runners will be weak
For the second years I don't let more than 3 runners in one plant for 3rd years I don't let it grow more than 6 runners and for each runner single stem you'll find 3 runners in one stem I'd leave only 2 max because the 3 and so one would be weak
They die off in the cold months then come back still counts as “second year” and “third year” right ?
That's what i wanna know
Yes
Great info could you tell me about my strewberrys in pots and guttering I have found vine weevil in mine any info I live in the UK cheers
do 6ou think strawberries can grow in the caribbean i wawato start growing it I broufht one plant I saw real expensive
My own wild strawberries almost do not bloom and their leaves are rather pale.
Did it need more fertilizer and to make the soil less alkaline?
Not really sure sorry
@GoLocavore What do you do witht runners when you're done? Dip the runner in root hormone and cup of sand??
No mulch?
I am learning so much.. first year with garden. I think my hubby planted my watermelon too close to the tomatoes. Other than that its going good. Other than I need to learn more about strawberries
How long does a plant produce fruits? How do you keep slugs away from eating the berries?
You can use many things. Fire ash. Grinded up Wood chips. Or just buy snail bait.
Strawberries like a bed of dried grass cuttings or straw-straw-berries.
If strawberry plants last for 3 years and it takes 2 years to strengthen aanvd develop good roots, it means you'll get only one year of strawberries. This should be when the strawberry plants is 3 years old. These plants will take up too much room in my balcony garden. I have 48 sq feet to grow. I don't want strawberry towers nor hanging baskets. Thank you.
Thanks very helpful!
Ur strawberry is thirsty :(
Where i live is sunny all year round and we dont have seasons like winter and fall and stuff so will my strawberry plants develop a god root system even if i dont cut the runners ?
Or you could grow the plant for a year. Harvest the berries. The start again with a new plant.