Runner up

Well, the strippers have been busy. Busy producing leaves. Who cares about leaves? Leave it to strippers to bobble things up. In an effort to get strawberry production underway, I added some 20-20-20 fertilizer into the mix. Before, I was using MiracleGro 24-8-16 and attribute the nitrogen heaviness of that mix to the amount of foliage the girls produced. It's been about a week or so since the switch, and low and behold something new happened.

A runner happened. Punky Brewster kicked out a baby! That slutty girl. During research, it was tough to find a picture of a runner online. Like, a picture showing the difference between a runner and a normal leaf. Well, here you go. It looks like a long skinny skeleton finger and goes sideways. Mystery solved. According to 100% of the internet, to increase berry size or frequency, you're supposed to cut off all runners and tiny, abortable fruit sites. Well screw that, I want to see if the runner roots. So, I buried it in some of my signature fish tank gravel mix and wait.

Here's some photos of the ladies taken today. They're kicking ass with leaf making.

07/05/09 Album

~ Grow Monkey