Скачать или смотреть How to propagate strawberries WITHOUT runners part 1

in this video I go over one of the methods that I like to propagate strawberries that either don't produce runners or are stressed into a non runner producing condition.

you may find this useful knowledge if you ever run into the situation where your favorite variety you grow suddenly stopped producing runners. I have noticed this is an issue whenever you go too long without replacing them with a runner, they will become overcrowded and stressed and eventually just die off. we usually stop this from happening by replacing via runner propagation but sometimes if you are inexperienced with strawberry growth one can overlook this hinge point in a plants growth and reach the point of no return.

in this situation the only way to get fresh young plants is to either fork over some money to buy new ones, OR you can do the smart thing and perform a crown division (or crown propagation technique)

by splitting up the crowns with some root mass on each, you can not only produce new healthier plants, you will actually produce vastly more strawberry plants faster than simply propagating runners, as we are dividing up an old plant as opposed to starting with a single new one per runner vine.

the only difficulty with this technique is ensuring that the divisions are capable of staying moist and plump as they develop more roots to grow. I recommend growing them in full shade for the first few weeks before giving them full sun so that they have time to recover, watering frequently to give them the best chance to grow roots.

once they are in the ground I recommend cutting flowers for the first month (only if your growing everbearing/day neutral varieties) to ensure that a proper root network is growing, after which you can enjoy strawberries the remainder of the season!