When and how to trim the whiskers in "Victoria"?

"Victoria" - a plant for which you need to very carefully take care.There are even special rules that should be followed if you want to get a lot of large, juicy fruits. Many experts believe that clipping the antennae is one of the most basic aspects of growing this crop. Not all gardeners know how to cut strawberry tendrils in the summer. Many wonder if they can be cut during flowering or fruiting. How to trim the antennae in order to propagate the culture, and in what period you need to deal with pruning discussed in this article.

The processes of strawberries finally formed by 10-20 July numbers. By this month, every summer resident must determine for himself what he will do with these antennae, he will cut it off completely, process it, or use it as a new material for future landing. Experts advise to completely remove all shoots so that you can collect a huge crop of juicy berries. This process is recommended 2 times per season.

The first pruning should be done in spring, when flowering, when the bushes of your culture will only begin to gain volume. If you remove the antennae in time, the necessary microelements will not be spent on them. Instead, the nutrients will be sent directly to the emerging berries. If you still hesitate over whether it is worth cutting the antennae or not, experienced gardeners give the exact answer: it is worth it. Otherwise, in the entire harvest, you will not see a single large berry. Each bush will produce enough fruit, but the resulting strawberries will be small in size and savory to the taste.

After you have removed unnecessary antennae, you should give the plant the right amount of moisture. Victoria is usually watered from ordinary watering cans or professional drip irrigation systems. It is not recommended to flood the plant. Watering should be done in small approaches.

Even after your bushes completely stop producing fruit, their mustache will still appear from time to time. Do not be lazy to remove them. Important: never remove the antennae with your hands, there is a high probability that you damage the bush completely. They should be cut only with the help of special devices: shears or small garden shears. Many gardeners never cut strawberry tendrils, even when it blooms. However, these plants have to be updated every 5 years - this is the maximum.

After you cut off the antennae, you can use them to grow new bushes. Not every gardener knows at what time it is necessary to remove shoots and which rules should be followed in the process. However, this is a very easy procedure, and after the appearance of even minimal experience, this process will have no difficulty.

After the bush has completely ceased to produce fruit, it is necessary to begin the process of pruning processes. Typically, the plant ceases to bear fruit from the 15-20 of July to 5-10 of August. The time depends on the country and region in which you live. In the period when the plant begins to produce fruit, you need to carefully monitor all the bushes. For those who for the season will bring the most fruits, it is necessary to leave notes.

After you have chosen the shrubs that most bear fruit, you can proceed to the next step: you need to choose the most durable, dense antennae and transplant them to another bed, buried in the ground. Experienced gardeners are advised to cut only those mustaches which are located closest to the center of the plant. They are more resistant to transplants and before the rest will begin to bloom and bear fruit. Thinner and weaker antennae should be cut from the main bush.

Among gardeners, there is one more common method of cutting strawberry whiskers in the summer.It consists in the following: the strongest antennae are cut off from the main bush, then they are planted in a special glass or plastic pot. Cut off antennae should not be buried deep in the ground, they are simply covered with soil. The pot itself is left in the greenhouse or at home, as long as the sprout receives enough sunlight and is watered periodically.

After you have sorted out the antennae cutting process in the summer, you should know how to process the shrubs after the actions performed. After the removal of the antennae, the shrubs become more vulnerable to the natural activity of insect pests. In order to maintain the health of the plant, you need to make prevention.

No matter what time of year you removed the antennae, preventive measures are always carried out with the use of special drugs. The ideal solution in this case is "Fitosporin".

Along with chemical solutions, the following organic products are also used for prophylaxis.

• At 1/10 of the water add manure, stir and water the bushes.
• Chicken droppings should be diluted in the ratio of 1: 12. The mixed bushes should be watered at a distance of 6 cm from the plant root.
• On 1 bucket of water add 200 g of bird droppings and mix. The resulting mixture is left for a day in order for it to be present. Such a mass is watered aryk between the beds.
• In a bucket of water, add a quarter of a bucket of manure. This fertilizer should be infused for 3 days, and then another quarter of the manure bucket is added.

On 1 square. meter of beds takes about 11 liters of liquid fertilizer.

• Never allow too many antennae to form on your bush. Otherwise you will never see a rich harvest.
• Antennae should not be trimmed too short. The stalks should remain at least 10–15 cm above the ground.
• It is strictly forbidden to tear off his mustache without special devices using his hands. So you damage the entire root system of the shrub.
• Pruning is desirable to produce at sunrise or sunset. It is not recommended to remove the mustache in the hottest hours of the day and in rainy weather.

Mustache trimming tips are waiting for you in the video below.