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Propagation of strawberries with a mustache
The propagation of strawberries with a mustache does not always give good results. To get a rich harvest from new bushes, you need to follow the recommendations. The main principle in this business: the plant is used for one thing – either a mustache or berries.
First you need to decide which bushes will give berries, and which ones will be needed to get a mustache. These responsibilities must be delimited for the following reasons:
Propagation of strawberries with a mustache should be carried out according to the rules
- The hatched plants have already given all their strength and nutrition to the formation of berries, the whiskers from them will be weak, and the new bushes will be low-yielding;
- The mother plants themselves will quickly become depleted and lose the ability to bear fruit, the berries will become small, and disease resistance will decrease.
Preparation for breeding takes place in several stages:
- First, you need to determine those specimens that will be the source of seedlings. To do this, we remove absolutely all whiskers and observe the plants. Those of them that gave the most abundant harvest, did not get sick and resisted bad weather, we mark it so that we do not lose it later. You can put a sticker or tie a ribbon. These are future mother bushes.
- The next year, we remove all the buds of the marked individuals, depriving them of the opportunity to form berries. Because of this, all forces will be directed to the development of the processes. They will appear in June. We leave only the strongest of them, we delete the weak ones.
- We leave only one rosette, the closest to the bush. To do this, we periodically shorten the process.
If you need a lot of seedlings, you can leave the second sockets, but they will be weaker.
Mustache reproduction: transplanting strawberries in August
If roots appear on the outlet, then it’s time to plant them in the ground. There are 2 options for how you can do this:
- The roots of new rosettes connected by a shoot are dropped into the soil, watered as a separate plant.
- Without breaking off the antennae, we plant each outlet in a separate pot, where they will form their root system.
In August, we transfer new plants to a permanent place. By this time, they should have already given good roots. Before transplanting, in 2 weeks we cut off the mustache connecting them to the mother bush. They need to get used to getting their own food from the soil using their roots.
Mother plantations can be used to obtain seedlings for no more than 3 years. After that, new young bushes should be selected for the formation of shoots, again carrying out the selection procedure.