The effects of flower removal on summer and fall fruit production of ‘Albion’ and ‘Sweet Ann’ strawberries

Initial Bare-root Crown Size and Early-season Flower Cluster Removal Has Little Effect on Subsequent Plant Performance in Day-neutral Strawberry

“…In another study (Portz and Nonnecke 2010), larger fruit resulted after removal of flowers and runners in the varieties Albion and Tribute, but not in Seascape. However, other work (Demirsoy et al 2019) on the dayneutral strawberry variety Albion and the short-day variety Sweet Anne with four regimens of flower removal, including one with no removal, found no significant differences in total fruit yield or plant biomass between any of the treatments. Work exploring the effect of the removal of strawberry flowers in the short-day variety Elsanta (Cross and Burgess 1998) found that although smaller plants resulted in reduced yield in proportion to the flower buds removed, the larger plants of the study compensated for the removal by producing larger fruit from the remaining buds and the production of more buds overall.…”