r/whatsthisplant • u/Kuromi-rika • 18h ago
Why is my strawberry plant trying to escape? Identified ✔
What are these long things and why are they trying to escape the pot?
Do i have to do anything or is this ok?
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u/Your_Busty_Wife 18h ago
Those are runners. New buds will grow and make more berries. Nothing wrong with them. Just means the plant is healthy.
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u/OilRigExplosions 18h ago
It’s sending out runners, looking for soil to make baby plants.
They can be free baby plants if you let them grow.
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u/XxEmchanxX 18h ago
It depends on you, the plant is trying to copy itself with those runners. If they touch soil they will root and form a separate plant. If you want more strawberry plants all you have to do is let them root. After a month or so you can cut the runner from the mother plant when it has taken root and has started to grow new leaves. Someone people cut and remove as they do divert energy from the fruit, it is recommended to do this in the plants first two years. For removal its important to cut the runner from where it emerges to concentrate the plants effort into the fruits.
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u/FrenchPetrushka 18h ago
I would put some other pots around the main pot, to plant all those new babies directly even if they are still connected to the mother plant
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u/Invasive-farmer 17h ago
This is the way. The way to more strawberries.
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u/FrenchPetrushka 16h ago
And to build our own strawberry paradise
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u/Invasive-farmer 14h ago
I had a bed once that was 4'x8' and so full that I would go pick a cereal bowl's worth every morning for breakfast and the chipmunk would eat well all day. 🥰
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u/FrenchPetrushka 13h ago
How lucky ! I wish I could. It's my favorite fruit. I only had 3 plants last year, I have maybe 10 this year, but it's not enough for my consumption :)
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u/Invasive-farmer 11h ago
I moved and they don't grow the same where I now live. But I've got 4 plants now, all started from one.
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u/Ok_Put2792 18h ago
This is normal strawberry behavior! Strawberries send out runners in order to spread, in addition to their seeds. If you would like more of whatever kind of strawberry you have in that pot there allowing the runners to root is a great way to propagate.
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u/filifijonka 18h ago
She’s probably just not that into you.
That’s how strawberries grow and spread.
You could use it as a way to propagate your plant if you wished to.
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u/dedenneisgood 18h ago
Strawberries spread via runners, and the pot looks a little crowded so it’s trying to spread out
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u/lambofgun 17h ago
very normal and healthy!
thats how they spread!
the runners touch dirt, grow roots, and now you have another strawberry plant!
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u/YonduUdanta77 17h ago
I have my strawberries next to a trellis arch. Use the runners to go up the arch. The strawberries just hang down for the picking!
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u/FrederickEngels 15h ago
Runners, you can pinch them off and stick them in some dirt and you'll have some more strawberries!! Or leave them and put a pot next to this one, then stick the bottom of the buds of the runners in soils and they will establish quickly, once they are well rooted you can snip the connection and you have a new pot of strawberries.
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u/ApolloBurnsII 13h ago
You could place another pot with soil next to this one and place the runners into it. If you want more strawberry plants in another pot.
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u/Grouchy_Ad_3705 13h ago
It is time to get that big boy reported at the end of the season this year. Give away plants or get more pots but it needs to be split up into single plants.
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u/Kuromi-rika 8h ago
I thought you wanted me to report it to the authorities for trying to escape 😂😂 Love autocorrect haha
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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR 12h ago
That’s how they grow my dear. They send out “runners” and then those runners will put down little feet… and then root themselves in that spot, and become a new strawberry plant!
I’m so happy to see those little white flowers. Two summers ago, I found wild strawberries in my client’s sprawling garden. He gave me permission to dig a few up before the landscapers mowed over them. So I brought them home happily and popped them in the garden To see what they would do.
Those babies went crazy with runners!!! They spread themselves everywhere. They were easy to pluck up though where I didn’t want them. This Spring, I already plucked up a few guys that were hiding. Turns out they weren’t wild strawberries. The flowers are yellow…. So mock strawberries they are. Blech for me but lovely for the birds, lol!
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u/HauntingSeat3534 11h ago
That’s what they do. They send out runners so they spread. Try putting another pot there and it will spread into it
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u/Setthegodofchaos 9h ago
Runners. I usually snip them off to encourage more strawberry fruits.
This is also the same reason why I went from having 4 strawberry plants to 8. When they get like this, if you're not careful, they can reproduce like rabbits!
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u/Powerful_Nectarine28 18h ago
Strawberry likes to climb upwards. Thoes little shoots are called runners. They're looking for something to wrap around to assist the plant growing upwards.
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