Strawberry runners from pots?

stilernin

Mado wrote: »

Actually, I am trying a new self devised method:D
I placed a section of egg box filled with compost under each of the runners nodes and attached them using masking tape to the runner.
I will report in a few weeks to say if they have rooted.:cool:

Brilliant. :T:T

I will put some of my hard earned cash on betting that this will work just fine.

cootambear

Mado wrote: »

Actually, I am trying a new self devised method:D
I placed a section of egg box filled with compost under each of the runners nodes and attached them using masking tape to the runner.
I will report in a few weeks to say if they have rooted.:cool:

That is very ingenious.

For those who prefer a more low tech (ie lazy like me).approach I simply cut the chord that connects them to the parent in late summer. Those that have rooted I leave be. The others I plant. I have a 95% success rate.

cootambear

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

Elsien

I'm not a huge strawberry fan either - but like you, I find the home grown ones irresistible so I grow more every year. Let's just say I'm a big fan of home grown ones. Part of the problem with supermarket strawbs is the taste you (don't) get for the money you pay - hence not previously having been a fan.

The gardening books will tell you that plants last 3 or 4 years but in practice I don't take any notice of this - if a plant fails to produce a decent amount of fruit one year it comes out. I'm not organised enough to keep tabs on how old each individual plant is!

I use clothes pegs on the runners - put the hole in the peg, the bit that grips the line, on the end of the runner and push it into small pots of soil/compost. You'll lose some over winter but each plant produces more than one runner so you'll have more plants next year than this year.

Lizzy

I meet more and more people who say they don`t like strawbs. I ask them and I find they have only eaten the supermarket ones.

Each to their own I suppose, but I can`t think of many plants where taste is so dependent on variety like strawbs.

Many modern varieties have had bred out the chemical methyl anthranilate (which gives great strawbs that powerful wild strawb aroma explosion), in the breeders search for what they see as more desirable traits such as higher yield and longer shelf life.

shirlls

Whilst the plants are fruiting I cut off all the runners. When the fruits finish I just push the runners into 3" plant pots and sometimes just leave like that until next spring when I discard old plants and repot and pot the others. All my strawbs are in pots and I've found that I seem to get more fruit from the ones crammed into troughs than the single ones in large pots.