Strawberry Plant Dying

[OROZCONLECHE]

So I got This Strawberry Plants in the Mail but as I opened Them...They were either Dead or at the Point, I don't know what to do, I put them in my best potting mix and some I put inside, What should I do?
[img]https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/victororozco/2011-12-14180153.jpg[/img]

[DoubleDogFarm]

What variety?

Most strawberries are shipped as crowns, No foliage. I would recommend a pot no smaller than a gallon per root crown.

This page may help
https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/fruit/blb01s16.html

Eric

[OROZCONLECHE]

Well the strawberries are Quinault and I'm assuming that if thats how they ship em just the crown there is hope of them staying alive right, I got about 10 crowns with roots, I put the rests of the plants in a 10 Gallon Pot.

[DoubleDogFarm]

Someone with more experience with container gardening should chime in.

I planted 3 strawberry plants per hanging basket. I'm now thinking 2 would have been better and 1 best. After the first summer they did produce, but the plants looked puny. Probably needed more nutrients for its small container.

Seascape Strawberries
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Eric

[OROZCONLECHE]

Well My Goal is to Keep them alive, once I see some Sign of that, then I'm going to put them in seperate containers, I got em just for a hanging container as well, This is the only picture of the container, its so nice for a container, has a vintage look, and if the rest stay alive I'm just gana keep them warm till spring and put them outside in the ground [img]https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/victororozco/2011-11-30191046.jpg[/img]

[DoubleDogFarm]

Looking at your 10 day forecast, looks like low to mid 60s. Why not plant them out now. I would think they would winter over just fine.

Eric

[OROZCONLECHE]

Well I got a couple Outside and some Inside and see some diffences, I do that with most the things I got, some outside and some inside, and germination and growing does best inside with a temperature of 80* inside compare to 60* outside

[!potatoes!]

growing faster right now isn't necessarily what you want. they'll probably be better off if they slow down for the winter.

[JONA878]

All straws need a period of winter chill to initiate fruit bud.
Usually after the nursery have lifted the plants they would cold store them to await selling, so they would then be ready to burst into growth.
If you are in an area that does have a distinct winter with good frosts then it can pay to plant them just before the winter chill starts so that they have an established root system going before they shut down.
Then come the warm weather in the spring they will shoot away.
Spring planting will always act as a slight delay moving the harvest period up a couple of weeks or so.

I still think that unless the crowns are bigger than 8-9 mm then it pays to stave off cropping on the first year.
Unless you are planting late summer with misted tip or cell grown plants. Then they have time to grow on before cropping on the following year.

[john gault]

Someone with more experience with container gardening should chime in.

I planted 3 strawberry plants per hanging basket. I'm now thinking 2 would have been better and 1 best. After the first summer they did produce, but the plants looked puny. Probably needed more nutrients for its small container.

Eric

I don't like container gardening, but I did have some puny looking strawberries that seemed to be getting worse by the day. The soil wasn't the greatest, so I got compost and amended the soil and heavily mulched around the area and they're finally starting to comeback; I wish I had pic of how they looked, all I got are the "after" pics. Wish I had use something for scale, because the pics don't really show how bushy and large they are.

As for container gardening I would think it'd be the same process, but only more attention to detail, because it seems like you would have to keep coming back periodically to ammend the soil, much more so than when they are in the ground; that's why I don't like container gardening.

Also I've noticed (of the few plants I do have in a container) that their roots are growing out the bottom, so everytime I moved the container (which I keep on the ground in my garden) I was ripping the roots out of the ground. I'm not very experienced at gardening, but it seems like container gardening requires more maintenace.


BTW, if you look closely these plants are in a container, but since the soil was so poor I put the compost in the containers, which are wood and buried them in the ground. Now the containers are falling apart (decomposing) and the surrounding soil is looking much better, so basically these plants are now planted. I don't count these as "container plants". My only container plants are some tomatoes and they are in plastic containers above ground, those are the ones with the roots growing out the bottom.

[img]https://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m484/76gunner/Miscellaneous%20Yard%20Pics/022-1.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m484/76gunner/Miscellaneous%20Yard%20Pics/021-1.jpg[/img]

[Tilde]

So can I fake a chill? Not to complain about good weather but we haven't gotten below 50 once this winter and the 10 day forecast doesn't put us below 60 anytime soon.

do I dump ice on the container? It's pretty darn big (18" diameter, 14" tall) or should I did out my strawberries (they've been in there a year +) and put them in the fridge?

[OROZCONLECHE]

Those are some Nice strawberry plants, and that is the reason I want them, mostly because of how they look, The container I'm using is nice and want it for decoration, as for the rest of the plants I'm planting of putting them on the ground so they can thrive. and if they are slowing down for winter well I guess I'm going to wait a while

[OROZCONLECHE]

Is this the same variety? I just got this but don't know the name of the plant
[img]https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/victororozco/2011-12-18155308.jpg[/img]

[estorms]

I always try to dig the holes before I buy the plants but if the weather isn't right, I put the strawberries in the bottom of the refrigerator.

[OROZCONLECHE]

Sounds warm and cozzy but what about the light

[estorms]

I kept mine in the refrigerator for a little over a week. It shouldn't be much different from spending the winter under leaves and straw.

[GardenGnome]

My neighbor gave me some strawberry Plants and I stuck them in the ground.
The leafs turned fire colors idk if the there dropping the leafs.
do they keep green leafs all year long?

[OROZCONLECHE]

That happen to mine when I over watered them, I just changed them from place the leafs died so I cut them off and new ones came, all I know is the ones I have are evergreen so they stay green year round.

[john gault]

My neighbor gave me some strawberry Plants and I stuck them in the ground.
The leafs turned fire colors idk if the there dropping the leafs.
do they keep green leafs all year long?

What's your zone? I'm in zone 9a and I really don't have to worry about the winters, they do stay green. However, I did have a similar thing happen to my strawberries, with the leaves turning red/rust colors. I blamed it on the soil, since it's pretty sandy with little organic matter (OM). So I dug them up and put them in a container while I reconditioned my soil, by heavily mulching and sheet composting in that area.

My strawberries recovered nicely in the containers and I've since put them back into the ground and have removed the wooden containers (pictured above). You can see the containers in that pic (in my post on page 1 towards the bottom), I removed them not long after taking that pic, no digging required, since the wood simply rotted away.

The plants still look basically the same today. I don't know if that's the issue with your plants, but it fixed my really well.

[GardenGnome]

https://www.climate-charts.com/USA-Stations/CA/CA046685.php

https://www.ersys.com/usa/06/0655520/usda.htm


7b-9a?

[GardenGnome]

https://www.climate-charts.com/USA-Stations/CA/CA046685.php

https://www.ersys.com/usa/06/0655520/usda.htm


7b-9a?

[john gault]

https://www.climate-charts.com/USA-Stations/CA/CA046685.php

https://www.ersys.com/usa/06/0655520/usda.htm


7b-9a?

Looks to me like you're in the area of zone 9, but you can type in your zip code on this site https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx# and narrow it down. However, climate, to me, doesn't seem to be an issue in your case. So it could be an over/under-watering issue or a soil issue, but I'm no expert, I haven't even had these strawberries for a year.