by Tony
Cutting the cord on the new strawberry
9:46 pm in Completed Window Farms, Plants, posts with pitcures!, Uncategorized, Version 2.0 airlift system by Tony
It has been awhile and I have been busy outside, but I did something interesting with my strawberries. One of them put out a runner so I planted it. I actually had runners last summer, but just cut them off at the time. The original strawberries are getting old and I will replace one of them in the WF with this baby. The three on the right have all been in the window farm for a year and a half. The one on the left is the baby and the other three started off just like it and 1.5 years ago. As you can see the crowns have really grown tall and have divided a number of times.
After deciding to plant it, my jalepenos and strawberries had to get cozy for a couple of weeks. The runner was only about 18 inches long so they had to be really close. I have a jalepeno growing in a three plant WF and the top two positions are empty so I planted it in a net pot in the middle position and waited for the roots to take hold. I held it in place in the net pot with a paper clip. So a few weeks later, we cut the cord on the new baby.
http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/07/23/jalapeno-spider-mites/
Baby Strawberry
http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/02/13/strawberries-11-monthes-still-flowering/
Interesting. Little strange your plants decided to push upwards and expose the root tops, rather then growing through the rockwool. I would expect to see roots near the bottom from plants this old.
I read in one of your posts that you get strawberries multiple times a year. I just bought honeoye and the F1 Toscana. Any idea if they will give strawberries multiple times a year as well? If not, what kind of strawberries do I need to be able to harvest more than once a year?
Thanks a lot
@frankheuij You will want to find out what types of berries you bought. The types are June bearing, ever bearing, and day neutral. Google the terms to see what they mean. Mine are day neutral because that just so happened to be what was in my backyard. These terms usually relate to the outdoor soil based plants so I wonder what happens when you can control the temperature and lighting inside with a hydroponic setup….