Strawberry from the moment of blossoming and till fall acquires mustache and forms affiliated sockets. Mustache use for further vegetative reproduction. And whether so they are necessary to strawberry when blossoming and forming harvest?
To delete mustache or not?
Usoobrazovaniye demands great efforts and distracts plants, redistributing nutrients from phase of blossoming and formation of berries on continuation of posterity. Bushes cannot fully bring up the formed harvest. And as a result, berries lose in weight. There are grades which are inclined to violent usoobrazovaniye.
Bushes, acquiring children short moustaches, are infilled and badly are blown by wind. Appearance of fungal diseases, such as gray decay and spottiness on leaves, will be provided, especially at rainy weather. Practice shows that mustache on the blossoming strawberry plants whenever possible should be deleted.
Mustache leave if desired to multiply fruitful bushes. But ""to milk"" the blossoming bush when there is a wish also for some large berries, and mustache for reproduction, it is undesirable. It is possible to leave pair of mustache, but on each mustache leave on one rozetochka. Other mustache remove.
For reproduction it is more preferable to mark it is abundant the blossoming copies, to make sure of productivity, krupnoplodnost and after gathering berries to leave mustache which still will be much on strawberry.
How it is correct to delete mustache?
Do it in dry weather in the morning or in the evening. You should not cut off mustache during wet weather, when watering strawberry, the infection can get to wounds. Also it is not necessary to tear off mustache with force, it is possible to pull out bush from the soil. As the tool use scissors or secateurs.
For record. Do not touch mustache on remontant grades which form harvest at the same time, both on uterine plant, and on mustache.
At such grades the emphasis on decorative effect is put specially by selectors.