Why did the barren flower appear on strawberries and what to do with it?
Strawberries are good for everyone - both in taste, in appearance and in aroma. But not always she pleases gardeners with their fruits.Such a problem as strawberry on strawberries, which significantly reduces the yield or even can completely destroy the berries, is widely encountered.
Main risk group
Mostly this state appears in dioecious varieties of culture. The reason is simple: developing in solitude "male" and "female" bushes give a lot of flowers, but nowhere can you see the ovary. The solution is simple and obvious: it is necessary to bring the “opposite-sex” landings as close as possible, if necessary, even moving them closer to each other. But the situation is not as simple as it may seem. The appearance factors of barren flowers are much more diverse.
Additional harmful circumstances
A strawberry strawberry appears if:
- during flowering intense rain prevented the insects from performing their duties;
- in case of sharp frosts, an important part of the flowers froze over;
- pollen washout with excessively active hose irrigation;
- dry weather at a temperature of more than 30 degrees;
- attacked weevils;
- the soil is depleted and has not been fertilized for a long time;
- Immediately before flowering, many nitrogen fertilizers were used;
- irregular watering is practiced, the earth remains dry for a long time.
Strawberries bloom a lot in another case - when the bushes do not update every 4 or 5 years. Ignoring such moments just becomes the cause of persistent failures. Neither special spraying, transfer to another place, or replacement of planting material will help. Sometimes the reason is the wrong choice of variety. If for several years in a row no measures help to cope with the problem, most likely, the matter lies in it - you can only get rid of old plantations.
How to understand the problem qualitatively
If the bed looks like a flowerbed, without a single berry, you must first find out what exactly happened. And the first step is to clarify the type of plant that takes the garden. Many gardeners confuse strawberries and strawberries, as well as their hybrid - "Victoria." A large number of explanatory materials helps only to a small extent. When the exact answer is given by the form, it is necessary to deal with the variety.
If he is dioecious, then one should inquire about the proportion between male and female flowers, the distance between them. It is worth assessing the weather in order to understand whether it favors pollination or not. Sometimes pollinators have a special lure. This is done both with the help of sugar and honey, and by planting plants that more effectively attract the same bees.
Another important point is that you must regularly and thoroughly remove the whiskers, thereby increasing both yield and resistance to cold.
In some cases, it is worth blaming the so-called littering varieties. There are several, everyday names - "bakhmutka", "suspension", "blind man's buff" and "dubnyak." "The Dead Man's Blind" gives very developed bushes. Before flowering, they can look impressive: the foliage is solid, scapes are high, there are many whiskers. But here comes the decisive moment ... and not a single ovary will come out of the whole mass of flowers. After some time, the flowers simply shrivel, close - hence the popular name.
In the "oak" is also marked by the intensive development of the bush, covered with yellow-green leaves. But peduncles are not there at all. But the mustache develops from the first summer days in a huge number. "Bahmutka" although it contains the ovary, but their size is very small. Sometimes a big ovary falls on a brush, and all the others are far behind it.
As for the “suspension”, these are bushes with small berries, surrounded literally by the sea of whiskers. Red elongated berries can be easily distinguished by the seeds embedded in the pulp. Regardless of the type of strawberry parasites, they all have no economic and decorative value. Each bush, belonging to any of the four types described, must be uprooted and burned. On the vacant place it is necessary to plant a new plant.
The origin of the fake strawberry is associated with the abandonment of a number of areas without human control.Bushes that do not retain the original varietal properties develop from the berries that fell to the ground. Only under the control of breeders seeds are able to give a positive result. Meanwhile, some of the sellers of planting material collects exactly the "wild" strawberries. Use the fact that in the intervals between flowering there is no difference, and there is also nothing to be found on the seedlings.
In addition to the careful selection of varieties for the prevention of barren flowers is required:
- do not plant strawberries thicker than normal;
- remove leaves and excess mustache;
- destroy damaged and deformed fruits;
- relocate strawberries every 3 or 4 years or rejuvenate planting.
How to distinguish women's strawberry bushes from the male, you will learn from the following video.
