My one tip for BIG Strawberries!

Do you get small strawberries from your plants? Learn my ONE tip for getting BIG strawberries! And it doesn't even require any tools, just your FINGERS!

My strawberry varieties:
June bearing: Hood
Everbearing: Albion

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Strawberry varieties
3:34 My One Tip for BIG Strawberries
4:44 How to do it
6:45 Closing
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[fbisurveillancevan]

For those reading this and if she doesn't mention this in the video, it is vitally important to use runners to get new plants but restrict this effort to one or two plants as needed. A strawberry plant will produce for 3-5 years and then its production falls off.

[cindys.w.]

30 yrs ago I bought 2-6 pks of strawberries before the internet was in every house hold. Via an article in a gardening book I learned to plant the 1 yr old mother plant and to not allow the fruit to set but to snip off the blooms. Use a bright piece of yard or those piled up bread twist ties select the bright yellow or orange ones and place them around the base of each mother. Allow the runners to grow, root and mature. Depending on where you live 6 to 8 weeks before nightly temps are 32* transplant those runner babies on the other end of the strawberry bed(s). The next year allow the mother plants to set fruit but remove all runners as soon as you see them. Then the following years those original mother plants will produce huge berries, just keep removing the runners. Now you have those babies on the other end of the patch. Do the same thing with those the following year. Select one color per years worth of growth so not to mix them up and write on an index card whats what. The 2nd yr plants can then be moved closer to the original mothers and keep those runners snipped. After about 4 to 5 yrs start to replace the oldest mothers as many feel they start producing less fruits as they age. Have fun and gt down and dirty in the garden...!

[idahopotato]

"Runners" are daughters. Keep the mother and get rid of the daughters. Replace the mother with new daughters every 3 -4 years.

[truthseeker]

I push the end into a 3 in pot for 5 days and let it send a root down before I clip it of the mother.
I've found that any longer than 5 days and you wont get as big of berries.
This is the way I ve found to get the best of both. I have allstars and quinault and this has worked for both for me

[andregreen]

Great tip. Now I know why I had so many new plants and small, not so sweet berries.
Thank you.

[deborahstewart]

Wow! Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing tip! It's brilliant! I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and pinch or cut off the runners from my strawberries! And each time I do, I will be thanking you. I just can't believe that no one has ever thought of this before now. God Bless!

[jbelme]

I planted a dozen Quinalts in March. They became 100 plants, but I saw no fruit until this month(November)...three small strawberries. Wish I had known your trick. There’s always next year. 🙂 Thank you.

[bmanufacturing]

I tried cutting my runners off and rooting them with hormone and it works, so you let the mother focus on berries and at the same time you can make more plants.

[rabitgrl]

We just moved to this new house last fall. Previously, my strawberries were attacked by slugs, snails and birds before we ever got fruit to eat. Now, we are in a drier climate and will be purchasing my new berries within the month. This nice tip comes in perfect timing with the onset of gardening season. Thank you. 6:47

[elijahisrael]

Glad I stumbled upon this video. AMAZING! I’m getting ready to start my first indoor and outdoor grow so it was great to see what a runner looks like and how to encourage strawberries to grow as large as possible on the mother plant. Thank you.

[courtneylee]

“Nothing beats home grown berries” I agree 100%!

[NashvilleMonkey]

Very nice~ How long have those strawberry plants been in the garden beds? To save the clipped runners, put them in water, with the torn off end in the water and keep the growing tip out of the water but still resting on the water, and they will form roots.

[stacyclark]

You’re strawberries are huge & they look so AH-MAZING!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[ireneb]

Thank you so much for this video! Just an additional tip for those having trouble getting bigger berries .. it may be to do with pollination. If - like me - you live in 'the 'burbs' rather than out in the country, you may be noticing a decline in pollinator populations. Try planting flowering, pollinator attracting plants such as marigolds around/within your strawberry patches (mine are in hanging pots). If the time to do this has passed, then get yourself a soft-bristled paint-brush and hand pollinate your flowers, from the outside in towards the centre of the flower. If you have the time to do this daily (for a few pots of plants like I have), then great! Otherwise, you can get away with doing this every 3-4 days. Strawberry flowers are self-pollinating (meaning even just one flower can fertilize itself to produce a fruit as it has both male and female flower parts). However, some help from you may be needed. Brush from the outside (male parts) of the flower to the inside (female part*s*). For the size of the fruit to be maximized to its capacity, *each* female part needs to be pollinated. Hope this helps as an addition to the great info in this video!

[doctorcrew]

First year growing strawberries here! Have little day neutral strawberries that are just starting to form! I pinched the buds until beginning of this month and they are flowering like crazy!

[truthmatters]

Excellent video, thank you! Now I'm all set to grow my strawberries.😋❤️

[KrusinTheSierra]

Thank you!!! I’m so glad I came across this video! I planted 50 bareroot strawberries in March/April and they are all smaller strawberries now that they are producing and tons of runners are coming! Now I know how to get big strawberries!!! Yay!!!

[tomgatum]

Thanks for sharing...we tried to grow strawberry in the tropic where it is green all the year round... removing runners and some leaves are essential..to increase the yield and size of the berries.

[betsyolivares]

Hi friend. I got strawberries un march and they are growing again. I told you I was going to do my best and I did It.

[speakrighttogod]

Oh my gosh! Your berries look AMAZING and big. I know the flavor is off the chart. Enjoy!!