Strawberry Question

[treepixie]

Can anyone give me some advice with my strawberries, some of them are growing into an odd shape.

Why are they growing like this, i have been feeding them every 2 weeks with a seaweed feed, could it be the feed?

[Capsid]

Could be a number of things. Is the rest of the plant showing signs too? I have plants that produce misshapen fruit and the leaves are similarly effected, so I throw those way.

Low night temperatures may also affect pollination and cause the problem.

[Aberdeenplotter]

How old are the plants?

[treepixie]

I brought the plants this year,as bareroots

[DuncanM]

I've read that it's due to incomplete pollination, which has happened on about 20% of my strawbs, not suprising given they began to flower during the terrible downpours we had a while back.

I'm no expert so there could well be other problems that cause it.

[treepixie]

That would make sense, thanks for the help

[Kleftiwallah]

Seaweed feed is the cause. It's the tides rolling your strawberries back and forth.

Cheers, Tony.

[marchogaeth]

I've read that it's due to incomplete pollination, which has happened on about 20% of my strawbs, not suprising given they began to flower during the terrible downpours we had a while back.

I'm no expert so there could well be other problems that cause it.

I'd go with this, too. If you try to get really early fruit in a greenhouse or tunnel you are usually recommended to rub your hands over the flowers to get good pollination in the absence of insects. (I use a big paint brush.) I should think if you've had flowers around in bad weather the same problems might occur.