How to Propagate Strawberries from Runners

G(caps)rowing strawberry plants from runners is the easiest and quickest way to propagate strawberries plants. Most of the commonly cultivated varieties of strawberry plants produce runners as a means of propagating themselves. By propagating strawberries from runners, you automatically get more strawberry plants for free, and it's so easy!

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Strawberry Runners

Strawberry runners are the long shoots sent out from the base of the main plant. Strawberry runners are properly called (stolons) The word (stolon) comes from the Latin word (stolo) meaning a shoot, branch, or twig springing from the root. Stolons are produced by most strawberry varieties.

If you don't have any strawberry plants. You can obtain strawberry runners from nurseries or online. They are sold as a crown with a spindly mass of bare roots.

Strawberry plants have the ability to form adventitious roots. These roots are formed at the nodes along the runner, and wherever these roots touch the soil, they will continue to grow into that soil and establish a new clone plant that genetically identical to the plant that originally sent forth the runner. That's why it's relatively easy to propagate strawberry plants. These flexible parts of the strawberry runners allows them to be bent and positioned according to the desire of the gardener.

Sometimes you can find a smaller strawberry plant with roots in the ground that is still attached to its mother plant, you can pull it up gently, plant it in a small pot filled with soil and water it soon this will be a new strawberry plant. Just remember, even if a runner plant looks like it is ready to grow, it is not as well established as its mother plant. So we have to wait as long as the new plant is well-rooted

How to Plant Strawberry Runners

• Choose a healthy runner which has produced one or more leaves
• We can use any small container or pot filled with multipurpose compost.
• Place the strawberry runner on the surface of the pot and hold it in place using a piece of wire, and water well.

• Wait until the new plant has developed strong roots.
• After about 4 to 6 weeks, the strawberry new plants will start to grow new leaves, so it’s time to cut it free from the parent plant. 
• Separate the new plant from the mother strawberry plant by snipping the runner. 

• You will end up with so many strawberry plants.

I found that, strawberry propagation by runner is usually the easiest and most successful way of acquiring new plants from existing ones.

Watch How to Propagate Strawberries From Runners Video

You might also like to read:

   
➡️  How To Grow Strawberries

➡️  Strawberry Seeds

➡️  Strawberry Plants

Want to watch strawberries related videos:

➡️  How to Plant and Grow Strawberries in Container

➡️  How to Propagate Strawberries Plants

Happy gardening!

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