What Is This..?

[braders]

Evening Grapes

Been wondering what this is on my strawberry plant...is it a runner..?..dont think it is a new leaf...a bit confused...anyone help me please...( pic attached )

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braders...

[Welsh Wizard]

It a runner: let it get a wee bit longer with a leafy bit then peg down into a pot for a free strawberry plant!

[rogesse]

Not an expert here but I was always told to nip out runners until all the fruit had set - a bit like the advert for a certain wheat product, 'we'll make more'.

[braders]

It a runner: let it get a wee bit longer with a leafy bit then peg down into a pot for a free strawberry plant!

Do I peg down the end of the shoot, or anywhere along the runner...thanks for the advice people.

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braders...

[eye1der]

ive got 4 baskets with the decorative variety tarpan. i am wanting to propergate this variety so what i do is fastern 3" pots to the circumferance of the basket and tie the runners in place. when they have developed suficiantly i remove the pot and sever the runner = free new plant!!
for fruit it is advised you remove runners as they develop its quite easy to distinguish between them and flower clusters
hope this helps.
steve.

[braders]

Do I peg down the end of the shoot, or anywhere along the runner...thanks for the advice people.

Cheers
braders...

Evening Grapes

Have I done this right..?..I did it in the centre, but the leafy bit is at the end...pics attached.

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braders...

[WrexTheDragon]

The issue you have is the strawberry plant will now provide all its energy producing a new plant at the expense of fruit.

[braders]

The issue you have is the strawberry plant will now provide all its energy producing a new plant at the expense of fruit.

Thanks for that, but have I done it in the right place along the runner..?...does this mean no fruit till next year..?

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[WrexTheDragon]

You will get some fruit, but the plant will put all it's energy in producing a new plant, so the fruit will be inferior.

The new plant will grow from the end of the runner, when it has grown a bit bigger and has it's own roots, you need to cut the runner to separate the plants.

In the first picture it looks like it has been pegged half way along the runner. I would move the pot so that the new plant at the end of the runner is in the soil.

[PeshB7]

Evening Grapes

Have I done this right..?..I did it in the centre, but the leafy bit is at the end...pics attached.

Cheers
braders...

The leafy bit should be in the pot and not the actual runner.

Roots will develop under the leafy bit once it touched soil...Leave until the plant is a decent size and then chop off from the mother plant.

[Welsh Wizard]

Actually the effect of removing runners on fruit production is really very small according to Paszko in the paper "Effect of flower and runner removal on the yield and vegetative growth of two strawberry cultivars"

Here one abstract published:

"The yield and vegetative growth of strawberry plants were dependent on the removal of flowers or runners in spring 1994. In our experiment, removal of flowers or runners in the year of planting had a significant effect on the yield and growth in the following year. It increased the vegetative growth in the first years and increase the yield during the second year. The yield in the year of planting was low, corresponding to the small plant size, independently of presence or absence of runners. In 1995, plants of Elsanta cultivar with removed flowers or runners had a higher crop in comparison to plants in control plots. In 1996, the influence of the removal of flowers and runners on the height and yielding of strawberry plants was already much smaller. Senga Sengana plants did not show visible differences in crop size in the two years after planting. Therefore, a positive effect of the removal of flowers and runners in the first year on the growth and yield of strawberry plants is probably only slight.

So if the effect is small, and we are getting a free new plant (which will fruit itself eventually giving a boost to total crop yield).

Basically for back garden purposes removing runners is a myth.

[Curvy Vixen]

I bought 4 strawberry plants last year and planted them out in the garden. They grew quite well but I got about 2 strawberries from them and the slugs ate both of them

However, every one of them put out runner after runner.

This year I have approx 30 plants and they are all fat with fruit I'm not always the most patient person but it was worth holding off on the fruit last year! Sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate LOL!

[braders]

The leafy bit should be in the pot and not the actual runner.

Roots will develop under the leafy bit once it touched soil...Leave until the plant is a decent size and then chop off from the mother plant.

It seems to have started rooting now, along with others I have done...see pic...should I leave it a bit longer to establish, then chop off from the mother plant..?..and the small runner bit on the left of the pic, should I leave it on or chop that too..?

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braders...

[Two_Sheds]

.should I leave it a bit longer to establish, then chop off from the mother plant..?..and the small runner bit on the left of the pic, should I leave it on or chop that too..?

Yes and yes, chop

[braders]

You will get some fruit, but the plant will put all it's energy in producing a new plant, so the fruit will be inferior.

The new plant will grow from the end of the runner, when it has grown a bit bigger and has it's own roots, you need to cut the runner to separate the plants.

In the first picture it looks like it has been pegged half way along the runner. I would move the pot so that the new plant at the end of the runner is in the soil.

Its rooted well now, as you can see in the pic and I have cut it from the Mother Plant this evening...but more runners are growing at a fast rate, from the new plant ...do I carry on rooting them..?

Cheers
braders