PRODUCTION OF TWO RUNNER VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES (<i>Fragaria spp</i>) IN EL CASTILLITO, LAS SABANAS, MADRIZ

Abstract

This work aimed to quantify the propagation potential of
two strawberry cultivars, in the community El Castillito,
municipality of Las Sabanas, department of Madriz, using
a plant density of 80 cm between rows and 40cm and 80 cm
between plants for a density of 31,250 and 15,625 plant/ha.
The studied cultivars were Festival and Bridget. In the field
mother plants were cultivated with organic management, and
nutrition was carried out with lombrihumus and biofertilizer
from caw manure. Crowns were planted at 80 cm distance
between furrows. The experimental design was completely
randomized blocks, with four repetitions for each treatment,
represented by genotype and distances between plants.
Number of crowns, diameter of covering, number of runners,
number of plant runners, height of plants, length of runners,
and number of leaves per mother plant, and average number
of leaves per runner plant were evaluated after 180 days. The
distance of 80 cm between plants, presented a mean of 2.2
stolons and 7.3 runner plants, whichever the distance of 40
cm between plants presented a mean of 0.75 stolons and 4.4
runner plants. There was high variability among strawberry
cultivars for number of runner plants. The largest average
numbers of runner plant per mother plant were observed
in cultivars Festival (7.9). And the other hand, the highest
number of runner plants per mother plants was observed at
the distance of 80 cm (7.3). Considering the distances and
cultivar, best results were obtained in the cultivar Festival
with 80 cm.

Keywords: Fragaria; stolon; runner plants; propagation; crown;
cultivar; mother plant; lombrihumus; biofertilizer

DOI: 10.5377/calera.v9i12.6