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Two-year-old strawberry bush
hmsep86
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I have an strawberry greenhouse I plant bushes about 9 month age.my adviser says bushes must be change avery years to have high quality strawberries .is it true?
can I
preserve bushes for second year and have high quality strawberries with a good food plan?
do you have any experience about this?
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Advice is change plants every 3 years, ut you can take the runners from the plants, dont remove from main plant, lay them on a pot of compost near the plant, peg them into the compost with a piece of wire, or stone to keep conact with compost, they root very quickly.
thank Nanny Beach for your answer.
I plant them on the chassis in the greenhouse with perlite and cocopeat. I ask for quality of their fruits in second year if I preserve bushes and dont change them
Second year fruit will be fine if you feed the plants regularly with a liquid fertiliser meant for flowers/fruit such as tomato food. Perlite and cocopeat will have no nutrients for the plant, it is just there to hold the roots in place. Year 1 plant no or minimum fruit . Years two and three maximum fruit provided it is fed. Year 4 the plants will start to decrease fruiting due to viruses etc. Take runners off the plants in years two and three to start the cycle again. You should then have a third each of one year old, two year old, and three year old plants.
thanks fidgetbones.
my strawberry bushes are camarosa.
is food programming for camarosa in second year the same as first year?
or should i change my plan?
do you have any plan?
The feed is the same for each year of the cycle. As Camarosa is a long cropping variety for glasshouse use, feed right through the growing season. Chris Bowers describe Camarosa as virus resistant, so you should get three years out of each plant.