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No Strawberry runners

BenTheBeginnerBenTheBeginner Posts: 66
in Fruit & veg
Hi, none if my many strawberry plants have runners on, what's happening? Is it just too early or in the year or has something gone wrong? 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Are they just young plants? 
    Runners don't always appear readily. 
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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Some varieties hardly ever produce runners, some are the opposite and it can get a bit tiresome constantly checking and removing them (as you should while fruit is forming.)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited June 2020
    Sorry to jump in, but it is my first year with stawberries. We are getting runners, when is best to propagate from them? I'm assuming now is not the time while we have fruits, will they produce more runners later in the year?
  • BenTheBeginnerBenTheBeginner Posts: 66
    Fairygirl said:
    Are they just young plants? 
    Runners don't always appear readily. 
    No they are 3 years old, with good fruit on, but no runners! 
  • BenTheBeginnerBenTheBeginner Posts: 66
    BobTheGardener said:
    Some varieties hardly ever produce runners, some are the opposite and it can get a bit tiresome constantly checking and removing them (as you should while fruit is forming.)
    Could it just be too early yet? @Fairygirl
  • LaineyefjtLaineyefjt Posts: 8
    That's odd!  last couple of years I had loads of runners, but this year there's none. I wanted to put pots under the runners so I could grow new plants for a planter someone gave me. No joy though!

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