Propagation of strawberry plants in pots: effect of runner order and rooting media

Abstract

This study was carried out to establish a system for the propagation of good quality strawberry plants. Runner plants of strawberry cultivars Brio, Selva, Pocahontas, Redchief and Tufts, were layered in conical yellow pots, which contained three different rooting media (1:1:1 soil:straight cow manure:sand as a control; 1:1 peat: perlite + nutrients as first rooting medium; and 0.75:1:1:0.5:0.75 soil:peat:perlite:sand: straight cow manure + nutrients as second rooting medium), without excising from the mother plants. Within the cultivars, the best results were obtained from the second node and rooting media 1 and 2 in cv. Brio; from the first node and rooting medium 2 in cvs. Pocahontas and Tufts; from the first node and rooting media 1 and 2 in cv. Redchief. Although no differences were observed in cv. Selva with respect to rooting media, differences were obtained in terms of nodes.