Hey, I'm from Norway and I recently built myself a greenhouse and replanted the old strawberry plants my parents had in their field over to the greenhouse, the strawberry type is Senga Sengana which is a very sweet type, but the soil was bad so we never got good harvests and some plants are quite old now (10 years) so I dont expect much yield from them anyway, but they will produce runners so i can expand inside the greenhouse. The greenhouse is 8 meters long and 3 meters wide and i got a patch on each side inside the greenhouse thats 1meter in widht with 3 rows of strawberries on each side which is 156 potential plants, I will soon fill out all the spots on the ground and i also plan on building up some rows by using tubes so i can get even more plants inside the greenhouse, but I am running into some problems on how to most efficiently do it, plus i have another issue i wish to ask about. Finding answers for specific/best solutions wasn't as easy as I thought it would be even with google.
My first solution was to fill these tubes/pipes with soil and then use a drip irrigation system and have it with a slight tilt so the water flows out, but now i'm also thinking of using a hydroponics system instead as it would be easier, and I believe it would be easier because winters here get cold, very cold, so the plants that are in the tubes would not get enough insulation and freeze to death. So my solution to this was instead to use hydroponics where the strawberries are held in place by a sliced up pool noodle, so that i can easily collect the plants for winter time, cut off the top of the plants and place them in a mild temperature freezer (-2 to -5 celcius). And for the hydroponic bath itself I was thinking of just using a closed off non-circulating water/nutrient solution bath, since no light gets into it i shouldn't have problems with algae i think. I was first thinking of getting a circulating one but then i saw this video of non-circulating hydroponics:
I also ran into another problem that is probably unique to this year, I had a hot early summer which gave my berries a very good head start, but now its been much colder with little sun so the ripening process of the berries have been slowed down significantly, which causes some issues because a lot of berries only ripened on some parts of the berry and is now becoming over-ripened while other parts are still white, forcing me to harvest the berries to avoid rot before they're fully ripe. The green house still manages to have optimal temperature during daytime (15+ celcius) but i dont think they are getting enough sun and I guess that is the issue? So i am thinking of getting some led lights to use for when there is little sun, which would also aid a bit to the warmth. But it is hard finding led lights that got the right power, light spectrum and still being affordable, led lights that are being sold as grow lights that i can find are often very short and i got quite some area to be covered with lights in the greenhouse, especially if i also build some rows in the height. I think i have a good candidate for what to buy, and that is Galia 10meter led rope. It is120w white light, light strength per meter is 690 lm and the color temperature is 4000k and does have a good price.
I do have access to basically an unlimited amount of chicken manure (both dry and fresh/wet) and plan on using that for nutrient solution if I am going ahead with the hydroponics solution, but I am unsure as to how much chicken manure i need to filter into the water and if i also need to add something else and how much of that.
So the questions are.
1) Do strawberry roots die at extreme cold (-20 to -30 celsius)?
2) Can roots survive, and maybe even quickly have their season reset (as if the next year arrived) if i place the plants in a freezer thats not too cold and then replant them?
3) Can strawberries survive, grow and thrive in a closed off hydroponics bath that doesn't have water circulation?
4) Is a white 130w ledlight, 690lm and 4000k color temperature good enough to use as grow light?
5) Is there other ways of boosting how fast they ripe?
6) When making nutrient solution, what proportions of water, chicken manure + other ingredients do i need to make the nutrient solution for best effect?
If the hydroponics thing and led lights are something that works out then I also plan on having some plants indoor so I can have fresh berries throughout the winter as well.
My first solution was to fill these tubes/pipes with soil and then use a drip irrigation system and have it with a slight tilt so the water flows out, but now i'm also thinking of using a hydroponics system instead as it would be easier, and I believe it would be easier because winters here get cold, very cold, so the plants that are in the tubes would not get enough insulation and freeze to death. So my solution to this was instead to use hydroponics where the strawberries are held in place by a sliced up pool noodle, so that i can easily collect the plants for winter time, cut off the top of the plants and place them in a mild temperature freezer (-2 to -5 celcius). And for the hydroponic bath itself I was thinking of just using a closed off non-circulating water/nutrient solution bath, since no light gets into it i shouldn't have problems with algae i think. I was first thinking of getting a circulating one but then i saw this video of non-circulating hydroponics:
I also ran into another problem that is probably unique to this year, I had a hot early summer which gave my berries a very good head start, but now its been much colder with little sun so the ripening process of the berries have been slowed down significantly, which causes some issues because a lot of berries only ripened on some parts of the berry and is now becoming over-ripened while other parts are still white, forcing me to harvest the berries to avoid rot before they're fully ripe. The green house still manages to have optimal temperature during daytime (15+ celcius) but i dont think they are getting enough sun and I guess that is the issue? So i am thinking of getting some led lights to use for when there is little sun, which would also aid a bit to the warmth. But it is hard finding led lights that got the right power, light spectrum and still being affordable, led lights that are being sold as grow lights that i can find are often very short and i got quite some area to be covered with lights in the greenhouse, especially if i also build some rows in the height. I think i have a good candidate for what to buy, and that is Galia 10meter led rope. It is120w white light, light strength per meter is 690 lm and the color temperature is 4000k and does have a good price.
I do have access to basically an unlimited amount of chicken manure (both dry and fresh/wet) and plan on using that for nutrient solution if I am going ahead with the hydroponics solution, but I am unsure as to how much chicken manure i need to filter into the water and if i also need to add something else and how much of that.
So the questions are.
1) Do strawberry roots die at extreme cold (-20 to -30 celsius)?
2) Can roots survive, and maybe even quickly have their season reset (as if the next year arrived) if i place the plants in a freezer thats not too cold and then replant them?
3) Can strawberries survive, grow and thrive in a closed off hydroponics bath that doesn't have water circulation?
4) Is a white 130w ledlight, 690lm and 4000k color temperature good enough to use as grow light?
5) Is there other ways of boosting how fast they ripe?
6) When making nutrient solution, what proportions of water, chicken manure + other ingredients do i need to make the nutrient solution for best effect?
If the hydroponics thing and led lights are something that works out then I also plan on having some plants indoor so I can have fresh berries throughout the winter as well.
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