Quick pan over operational DWC Strawberry Propagation Bench in the Kenneth Post Laboratory of Cornell University. The strawberry runners are still attached to living mother plants, which are irrigated daily with Jack’s 21-5-20 General Hydroponics Fertilizer at 150ppm N. The runners are clasped in a GrowGrip and secured in a hole in the foam board...

Jonah Helmer, Supporting the Cornell Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Group, shows how to plant strawberry mother plants in drip irrigated pots to produce new runners on the runner propagation bench in the Kenneth Post Laboratory Controlled Environment Agriculture Greenhouse at Cornell University.

Step by step demonstration from Fresh Alternative Farms for making clones (cuttings) from the branch of a mother plant, cutting the stem at 45 degree angle to increase surface area, scraping the outer epidermis away to expose the white cambium, dipping the bottom 1.5″ of the cutting in rooting hormone, and inserting it into a...

FreshAF cofounder, Jonah Helmer, Researcher in the Cornell Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Group, shows off the root growth of day neutral ‘Albion’ strawberry runners after seven days in the Deep Water Culture (DWC) root propagation stage. The strawberry runners are still attached to living mother plants, which are irrigated daily with Jack’s 21-5-20 General Hydroponics...

FreshAF cofounder, Jonah Helmer, Researcher in the Cornell Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Group, demonstrates how to train vegetatively propagated runners or clones of day neutral strawberry varieties to grow roots in DWC. The strawberry runners are still attached to living mother plants, which are irrigated daily with Jack’s 21-5-20 General Hydroponics Fertilizer at 150ppm N....

Jonah Helmer, Researcher in the Cornell Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Group, shows off the root growth of day neutral ‘Cabrillo’ strawberry runners after four days in the Deep Water Culture (DWC) root propagation stage. Description of Powdery Mildew as major disease in runner propagation. We spray CEASE (a benneficial Bacillus sp.) and MilStop to reduce...