Strawberries!

[Chrisso]

Hi guys,

I've planted a tiny strawberry plant into my growcab, so far going good, also got a strawberry plant in a small airbubbling pot.

I just want to know if anyone is doing the same thing and might have some tips/pics to share ! I'm going to take some pictures of my plants when they start to grow a bit more.

 

[PhenotypeX]

I love strawberries. My dad loves them too and grows them outside. He says they spread really easy, if you start them outside the whole area will be covered with them. As far as growing inside, any spare lights i have get used to grow weed.

 

[Chrisso]

I love strawberries. My dad loves them too and grows them outside. He says they spread really easy, if you start them outside the whole area will be covered with them. As far as growing inside, any spare lights i have get used to grow weed.

I love them too, and I hate only being able to buy them in the summer. We got some plants outside too (thats where I got the plants, they're like cloning themselves into new plants).

 

[dubwise]

Chrisso-We're attempting to grow some strawberries outside next year but would like to start them inside this winter. Do you have any suggestions? I have an area that 5'x3' and have a spare t5 I could use. Think that this would be enough room to start 20 or so plants?

 

[Chrisso]

Chrisso-We're attempting to grow some strawberries outside next year but would like to start them inside this winter. Do you have any suggestions? I have an area that 5'x3' and have a spare t5 I could use. Think that this would be enough room to start 20 or so plants?

I dont have the experience yet, but a tiny bit from outdoor growing.
I'm fairly sure that you can start them under a t5 as they don't require that much sun untill flowering starts. I'm located in Scandinavia, where the sun just doesn't shine as much as any other place. I don't know anything about their room requirements, but I think 20 small plants, packed together will do fine, but then again, nothing beats trying it out . Its a good thing to start them inside, since more of the real sun in summer can be used for flowering as they will continue to flower and produce new strawberries untill the days get shorter and less light (as far as I know).

 

[dubwise]

Cool. I'm going to get some next week and start 'em up. I need to replace some bulbs in the t5 before we put it into service. If started this month, do you think they'll have enough time inside, or too much, if they are to be transplanted outdoors in March?Thanks!

 

[Chrisso]

Cool. I'm going to get some next week and start 'em up. I need to replace some bulbs in the t5 before we put it into service. If started this month, do you think they'll have enough time inside, or too much, if they are to be transplanted outdoors in March?Thanks!

I really do not know if its too much or too little. Up here in the cold north they tend to grow slowly, so the plant doesn't flower for more than 2 months or such, but with artificial growlighting I don't know.

 

[coconaut]

You should not expect strawberries to fruit in the first year, they do so in the second year.
Strawberry plants grow from a stolon, this is something like a bulb or a rhizome. Each new flower stem, leaf or runner, grow from the center of the stolon.
Strawberry plants also produce runners very frequently, runners are stolons, or can also be considered clones of the mother they came from.

I would recommend that if you're just growing a few strawberry plants that you certainly get some packaged seeds, or that you get clones from a nursery or something.
If you're planning on using the seeds from store bought strawberries then you should plant a large area outdoors. Strawberries don't breed true, so the seeds on the store bought varieties won't produce many plants that look, taste, and smell like the fruit they came from. Some of those seeds will produce plants that wont bear fruit at all.

 

[GrowerGoneWild]

Just a thought..

I like stawberries, and I usually take cutting or seeds and plant them in the wild and just mark them off with my GPS.

Its a great little project. I have my little sets of berry patches around the parks

 

[s13sr20det]

i cant wait to grow strawberries this spring!

havent tried these before but they look

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