Strawberry - Repotting strawberry plant

Strawberry - many of us eat it before, but I don't think many of us know how it leaves looks like. So, I decided to plant 1.

If you are tired of grandpa like story, feel free to take a look at Repotting strawberry plant video in  Gardening Diary YouTube channel.

I started by going to supermarket to buy some Horti Strawberry seed.

 

Nah.. not that simple.. I do not have any immediate success with this pack of seed. It remains at the nursery planter for weeks without any seedling. It was quite disappointed to be honest.

And yes, I did give up, and I tried to reused the soil by pouring into my lemongrass planter.

To my astonishment, after a week, some weed like plants growing in my lemongrass planter.

I think it was weed, of course, and because I do not know how a strawberry plant look like. Luckily, I am curious enough to remove this - weed - and try to grow it.

Fast forwarding the story, I uses Google imaging search and Google actually tell me that this is a strawberry plant.. Hooray!!

Right - I am suppose to talk about repotting strawberry plant. But why I want to talk about it. Because it is flimsy.

So, about 3 weeks time, the tiny strawberry plant grew bigger and the initial small pot cannot hold it.

Let go step by step

1) To repot this flimsy little plant, I first select a pot that is at least double the size of the original port.

Tip: While selecting a large pot is good, but please try to refrain yourself from getting an oversize pot. An oversize pot will have tendency of overwatering the plant.

2) Next, fill the pot with soil. I use Welgro Superior Substrate soil for this repot. 

Tip: Do not overfill the pot with too much soil. If there is too much soil, you may need to take out some soil later. This make thing very challenging especially for a small flimsy plant.

3) As the strawberry plant is flimsy, I first try to squeeze it out

However, it does not help. So, I use a very small shovel to try digging it out. This needs to be very careful.

After some long period of careful digging, I finally extract the plant out of the pot. As you can see, I was rather lucky to have all soil intact, but, the dangling root poses some challenges.

4) As my tip earlier said - do not overfill the new pot with soil. That is exactly what I had done wrong.

When I tried to put the plant into the pot, I could not do it simply because there soil inside the pot is blocking the plant.

As a result, I have to maintain the flimsy strawberry plant on the shovel while digging out excess soil.

This was a repetitive process.

5) Finally, I managed to put the plant into the new pot. Next, I need to carefully fill up the pot so that the plant can stabilize in the pot.

Tip: Do not cover the strawberry crown when you fill up the pot with soil. If you do so, it may prevent grow rate.

6) Once the strawberry plant stabilized, fill the pot with water. At this point, the soil may sink downward. If necessary, fill up the pot with more soil and water it again. This is a repetitive steps.

7) Finally, I am done and 1 happy strawberry plant.