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Bit of advice please?
My Elsanta strawberry plants have stopped giving fruit and I am planting the runners from them at present. Once the runners have rooted properly and I have cut the new plantlets off, what happens with the original mother plant?
All my plants are in pots, so do I just cut the plant back and that's it until next year? Obviously I'd still need to water it enough to keep it alive but I assume I don't feed it anything and it will just be dormant?
Is it ok to move the pots out of the best sunny spot in the tunnel and into to a corner with a bit less light now? I'm not sure how much light they will actually need at this stage, could I put the pots on shelves? Obviously the light would be even less for the ones on the bottom shelves, would this matter as much now?
Edit: I'm actually now wondering if I can turf them out of the polytunnel completely and sit them at the back of it? Would the plants suffer from the change in temps? I'm assuming I wouldn't need to go through the hardening off process for plants that are decreasing in growth?
My Elsanta strawberry plants have stopped giving fruit and I am planting the runners from them at present. Once the runners have rooted properly and I have cut the new plantlets off, what happens with the original mother plant?
All my plants are in pots, so do I just cut the plant back and that's it until next year? Obviously I'd still need to water it enough to keep it alive but I assume I don't feed it anything and it will just be dormant?
Is it ok to move the pots out of the best sunny spot in the tunnel and into to a corner with a bit less light now? I'm not sure how much light they will actually need at this stage, could I put the pots on shelves? Obviously the light would be even less for the ones on the bottom shelves, would this matter as much now?
Edit: I'm actually now wondering if I can turf them out of the polytunnel completely and sit them at the back of it? Would the plants suffer from the change in temps? I'm assuming I wouldn't need to go through the hardening off process for plants that are decreasing in growth?
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