by Tony
Strawberries-11 Monthes & Still Flowering
5:36 pm in Uncategorized by Tony
Well, it’s getting pretty close to a full year of my strawberries in my first WF and they are fruiting once again. In my last strawberry update back in December I show the last red berry of that cycle. The time line is something like this. 12/4/10 last berry picked. 1/16/11 Plants starting to flower again. 2/7/11 Fruit starting to turn red. 2/13/11 Pick and eat. In general, they flower every 3 months or so. This has been with a south window and no extra lighting and feeding with a blooming diet.
In the last cycle, I did not do any hand pollination and just had a fan blowing near them. This produced some odd looking berries. This time around I hand pollinated all the flowers with a q-tip and the berries are shaping up much better.
Strawberries Getting Ripe
This picture is about a month ago, but it is a good shot of the crowns. They now look nothing like the original crowns that I planted. Take a look at my first link below. They are slowly growing out of the net pots.
Strawberry Crowns Out Of WF
Strawberry History
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/03/18/transplanted-strawberries/
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/04/05/strawberry-update/
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/04/10/dark-strawberry-leaf-tips/
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/04/21/strawberry-update-day38-first-fruit-eaten/
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/08/01/strawberry-5-month-update-spidermites-other-bugs/
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/12/04/strawberries-9-months-new-wf-first-snow-of-the-year/
What are they growing in?
Those are beautiful! I want one.
Yummmm excellent work with the strawberries! Did you grow them from seed? My strawberries are taking forever to germinate lol.
@hardwarejunkie, I am using rockwool in all my WFs.
@bionicmel, Sorry, these are not from seed. I dug up a couple of runners from my garden outside.
@ajinil – if the entire thing is rockwool, that might be the problem with them growing out of the pot. I don’t see any roots coming out the bottom (which is unusual). My guess is the roots are forcing the plant upwards because they are running out of room.
At this point its a little late because the plants are full grown, but I would try the hydroton / clay pellets with the next batch. Maybe plant these outside in the spring and get a few new ones.
Do you know what variety of strawberries you have ? Are they “four seasons” type ? they look yummy !
@louisefromquebec, The strawberries are a day neutral variety called Selva. I actually wrote up a short history of them near the end of this previous post.
http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/04/05/strawberry-update/