No fruit on my strawberry plants?

Question

No fruit on my strawberry plants?

Answer 1

did u fertilize them? u do it 3 times - spring, summer and autumn. dont' forget to water after

Answer 2

If you just planted them this year, they're just getting established & you should have fruit next year.  Their efforts for now are spent in putting down roots, especially if they're the "June-bearing" type of strawberries.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/ag...

There is a difference between "June-bearing" strawberries, which bear their fruit in the early summer and "Ever-bearing" strawberries, which often bear several crops of fruit throughout the season. "More recently, research has shown that strawberries actually occur in three basic flowering habits: short day, long day, and day neutral. These refer to the day length sensitivity of the plant and the type of photoperiod which induces flower formation. Day neutral cultivars produce flowers regardless of the photoperiod. Most commercial strawberries are either short day or day neutral."

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Wikimanua...

Junebearing strawberries bear only in the 2nd year after planting. They'll also be making runners this season.

Here's a forum discussing strawberry production:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load...

After the second season, if you find the plants stunted & little or no fruit is produced, check for disease.  "Disease symptoms don't become evident until the bearing year (second season of growth). Red stele root rot is caused by the fungus, Phytophthora fragariae."

http://www.canr.msu.edu/vanburen/e-1728....