They make special strawberry pots that you can put a bunch in. They look like this...


Is the variety you bought a June Bearing or Everbearing variety?

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John - Zone 6

I put mine is a regular pot with the holes on the bottom. They are looking good and the strawberry's started getting red! Here's a pic..it's Strawberry "Cardinal".



If you have any other questions just ask.

Don't remove the flowers. Those are small strawberry's growing. Each one grows differently so you'll have one gib..one small..like in the pic.

Actually for Tristars its recommended you pinch off the flowers until June, and pinch off the runners the first year. This will focus on growth of the plant and will produce better fruit during the summer until fall. I just plnated Tristars myself!

I bought a strawberry plant at walmart and this is my first year growing them! I can't wait to eat my first berries from them!! I noticed yesterday that they'd produced a flower. should I go ahead and pinch it off or just leave it? the plant is pretty small.

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oh ok thanks terry! so that means I won't be able to get any strawberries this year huh? man I was hoping I would

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MissJamie, I'm afraid I'd just let them fruit and enjoy them! Since you're gardening in containers, it's not like you're trying to establish a strawberry patch...

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Dave
Even my growlights are getting restless!

Pinch them off until June- if it is an everbearing-they should produce fruit this year into fall!

I haven't googled the "Tristar" Strawberry, but I can't think of any reason why a Strawberry plant wouldn't produce in the first year... ...the "life span" of a Strawberry plant is only about 3 years! (The plant itself won't necessarily die off, but it will slow its production markedly after the 3rd year.) Terry is right... pick those first blossoms off, & that will force energy back into the plant & you should get a better yield.

Strawberry plants are a garden's version of rabbits! Picking those first flowers isn't going to make any difference (other than strengthening the plant), because most of those blossoms will fall off & NOT turn into berries, as there aren't many insects out yet anyway, to pollinate them.

The only reason a plant wouldn't produce berries in its "first year" would be because it's a brand new plant that has formed from a runner vine (sent out by the main plant), but that's not considered its first year. "First year" plants are ones that have set roots down... usually the year after they form on the runner.

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