How to grow potted strawberries

soil

For potted strawberries, you must first choose fertile, well-drained soil and add decomposed chicken manure or bean cake as base fertilizer. It is best to plant new plants in pots from late September to mid-October. The temperature is suitable at this time and the new plants can recover and grow quickly after being potted. When planting, press the soil firmly and make sure the base of the seedling is flush with the soil surface. If the seeds are planted too deep, the heart of the seedling will be buried, which can easily lead to seedling rot; if the seeds are planted too shallowly, the new stems will be exposed and easily dry out. For old plants that have borne fruit, you should also add nutrient soil to the pot before new roots grow in large numbers in autumn. For excessive runners, you can cut off some of them and plant them in separate pots.

illumination

Strawberries like light, so when caring for them in potted plants, they should be placed in a sunny place as much as possible, otherwise the plants will grow vigorously but bloom less.

Watering

Only with sufficient fertilizer and water can there be more flowers and larger fruits, and fewer ineffective flowers. The flower pots should be placed in a ventilated and sunny place, and the soil in the pots should be kept moist at all times.

Fertilization

Four-season strawberry blooms and bears fruit many times a year, consuming a lot of nutrients, so it is necessary to strengthen nutrient supplementation. After the strawberries sprout in early spring, apply liquid fertilizer every 10 days. Apply fertilizer and water more frequently before flowering, and keep the soil moist.

temperature

Generally, potted strawberries require a temperature of 20-25℃, and the room temperature should be kept above 15℃ in winter.

Plastic pruning

During the growing season, dead leaves, diseased leaves and weak side buds should be removed promptly, and unnecessary runners and young plants should also be cleaned up in time.

Reproduction

The main method is division by runners, which is usually carried out after fruit harvesting in summer. What is amazing is that the long creeping stems of the strawberry stretch far away, and several small grasses with many fibrous roots grow on the nodes. Cut off this "viviparous" small strawberry from the mother plant and plant it to get a new strawberry. Plant it in the yard or in the soil of a flowerpot, apply enough base fertilizer in advance, then water it sufficiently, and place it in a shady place for a few days. The survival rate of grass poison is extremely high, the reproduction coefficient is as high as 10 times, and it reproduces rapidly.