Help!!
This is a California strawberry plant and I have been watering it and put it in bright shade because it’s been looking really droopy and dry, but it doesn’t seem to be helping and I just reported it into this bigger pot and I was just wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to help it if so great thanks!
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Oh dang it, strawberries actually like bright sunlight (direct). If you put them in the shade, even a bright shady location, you only want to do it for a brief period. Strawberries are extremely prone to crown rot and can be very easy to overwater. They have very shallow roots, so you generally don’t want a planter as deep as it is. Wider is better as strawberries are runners, so they love to crawl and take over areas, but you don’t want to deep water them, and you want to make sure you aren’t watering the leaves and the base of the plant. Rather, water around the edges and make sure you have a very, very good draining potting soil. You can even get FoxFarm Strawberry Fields, which is designed for strawberries, or get some perlite and chunk up your mix so the crown does not stay wet, and then make sure to clip your runners regularly. If you have runners, you’ll have smaller, less juicy fruit. I hope that information helps! I’d consider checking your roots and make sure they aren’t rotted out. Then make sure to spray for bugs. If I can help at all, please let me know. ☺️ Let your soil dry out as well before watering again. These are my strawberries as of today. I also add straw and perlite to my top layer and then just wiggle my hand over the top layer and just kinda let my perlite get in the top to avoid crown rot. I don’t use a heavy NPK or heavy nitrogen just because it usually makes plants grow larger but thinner stocks and makes them leggy. So just know feeding them regularly even a diluted amount in watering will help, and avoid tap or hose if you can. It creates a salt buildup that they are sensitive to. So flush every couple of months if you are using hard water (hard water is tap or hose, where rain or distilled is considered soft water just so you know, if you don’t) ☺️
Thank you yeah, it was doing well then one day it dropped down and now it looks like this and I ask my dad for help(he is really planty ) and he said to do that stuf for three days then stop! Thank you soooo much!!!
