Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

Makes perfect sense.

It is still flowering, but I am not hand pollenating.

Later,
Tom

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:52:40 -0500, Luffman, Margie <luffmanm@AGR.GC.CA>  
wrote:

> Hello Tom. I have been away so I am late replying to your question. This
> is normal for a 'day neutral' strawberry, that is, one which does not
> need a specific day length (like our normal June bearers) in order to
> initiate flower buds which will result in fruit. Regular June bearers
> require a short day; therefore flower buds are initiated in the shorter
> days of late summer and early fall. Day neutrals will initiate flower
> buds at any time, so assuming the flowers do not get hit by frost and/or
> there are pollinators, they will fruit continuously. Hope this makes
> sense.
>
> Margie
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: labruscagrape-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:labruscagrape-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Olenio
> Sent: December 5, 2005 7:43 AM
> To: labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [OFEX] strawberries
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think my question is for Margie...
>
> I retrieved a seedling from the compost in the spring.  Not being sure
> what it was I potted it up, and down the road I figured out it was a
> strawberry.  It was at the single leaf stage when I rescued it, so it
> took
> a while to figure this out.
>
> It started producing fruit same season, and kept producing into the cold
>
> weather.  Since it was potted up, had unripe strawberries on it, I
> brought
> it inside in November.
>
> I figured it would ripen it's fruit and that would be it.  The plant
> would
> then go into the garage for the winter.
>
> Well, it is still flowering inside in December.  I assume if I play
> "bee"
> it will fruit.
>
> My queston... is this normal strawberry behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom



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