Jean keeps having daughters

we will attempt to apply ockham's razor and simplify the explanation...so we will start from simple and build to complex hopefully not creating confusion...this mother plant ( top )one of the surviving original twelve imports in the bed on the south side of the house has produced a single daughter plant ( second )...simple enough...

this transplanted daughter was produced by a second of the three originals which i have not included in these photos ( which i am sure she will be understanding about )..so far two daughters...

this mother plant in the east bed produced the transplanted daughter in the blurry photo which has produced what amounts to a granddaughter ( thanks for clarifying that Jean )...so three daughters and a granddaughter...

that same mother plant in the east bed has produced two more daughters besides the transplanted one so we have five daughters...

one of those two daughters has produced a daughter of its own...so...two granddaughters now...and...

that granddaughter has produced a great granddaughter...three mothers...five daughters...two granddaughters..and a great granddaughter...what was three original plants now number eleven in four generations...and...

the daughter that produced the granddaughter and great granddaughter has another stolon emerging...we'll see if the weather holds.

one of Jean's daughters has moved...

...in with one of her sisters...

the daughter plant i pinned in the buried flower pot a few weeks ago has taken root and is putting out a third leaf so it is time to find and in ground home...

the fist daughter i transplanted is doing fine and producing a daughter of its own...

so i dug a suitably sized hole and laced it with some compost...

so i snipped the stolon with my scissors...

and pulled the flower pot out of the bed...

i freed the plant from the pot carefully, planted her about eight inches or so away from her sister, and made sure to water...it is october, however there is nothing like frost in the forecast for the next ten days ( in fact the high tomorrow is expected to be eighty degrees fahrenheit...and warmer tuesday ) so she should have ample time to adjust to her new home.

new roots for Jean's daughters

this particular wild strawberry has been very reproductive...

produced this daughter plant, which...

produced this daughter i pinned in a flowerpot and transplanted, and which, in turn, has produced a daughter of its own...additionally the original plant from new york...

produced yet another daughter ( the one next to my hand, not the one in the flowerpot...more on that in a bit )

theh plant in the bed on the south side of the house has a robust daughter...however the real reason for this post ( this is all old news ) is...

the second plant in the east bed had produced a daughter which i pinned in another flowerpot...

and it has taken root and, in a week or two ( depending on how the weather goes ) i will snip that stolon and plant this on in the bed with the other transplanted daughter...so far the climate has cooperated in allowing the offspring the time to root...hopefully it will continue long enough for all of the plants to develop well enough to overwinter...we will see.

Jean has many daughters

there is something of a late summer population explosion going on amongst the new york imports...the plant in the first photo has produced the daughter plants in the next three and the daughter in the fourth photo is working on her own daughter...so one plant begets four more...the plant in the fifth photo is producing the daughter i have pegged in a flower pot in the sixth while the plant in the seventh has produced the daughter in the eighth...so...three plants become nine...exponential growth in colonizing perennials...no surprise...actually pleased they are investing the energy in growth rather than fruit...next season can be for berries.

one of Jean's new york daughters has moved

Jean's nest of imported wild strawberries in the east bed out back has one less resident this morning...but she hasn't gone far...the stolon that i pegged in a buried flower pot a while back has taken root and produced a stolon of its own (first photo )...i have to begin to spread these daughters out or they will overrun their environments ( like all perennial they are invasive )...the bed in the second photo was a potato patch and still has some active spuds going on ( third )...it also has wild berries growing along the side of a bed in close proximity ( fourth and fifth ) and since spuds cannot grow there next year it seemed a good spot fore a strawberry patch...so i took a shovel and a warren hoe to it ( sixth )...then i went to he east bed and snipped the stolon connecting the daughter to the mother so i ended up with a daughter plant and the stolon it has produced free in a flowerpot ( seventh through ninth )...i dug out a hole in the bed and tossed in a few handfuls of compost ( tenth )and i removed the daughter from the flowerpot very gently and laid it out in my hand ( eleventh )...the tap root on the plant was easily long enough to have reached the bottom through a drainage hole ( it would have )...i planted it towards the back center of the bed i had prepared ( twelfth and thirteenth )so i would not disturb it when i harvested the potatoes still up and running there ( mostly blues )...i will let that stolon on this daughter go where it will for now...if it strays too close to a spud we may have to intervene...we will if necessary.