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recent strawberry production trends in

Europe with main emphasis on new

production systems

Willem van Eldik senior consultant Delphy w.vaneldik@delphy.nl www.delphy.nl

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Delphy open days 2017

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Growing fresh fruit with particular attention

our way of doing

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Strawberry strategy:

developing plants and crop

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Quality is: taste, shape and shelf life

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goes this automatically/picking colour level

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Growing possibilities

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Solutions New growing possibilities Motivation: Quality and taste aspects

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Strawberry / soft fruit out of soil to

substrate.

Diseases, labor and the environment.

glass cultivation, many tunnel systems,

rain folly shelters

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Normal table top in the 80ths

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Focus shape, size and taste

Between glass

and table top

cultivation

Clery, also

possible with

Sonata, Elsanta.

Clery produce

earlier

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Out of the ground not replace more of the plot,

each year a fresh crop of two annual crops.

Clery mostly in Germany, also now Flair

planted.

Table top often be

found in the

Netherlands,

England, Belgium,

but also come up in

Germany/rest of

Europe.

Why? labor-friendly, favorable

with rising labor costs.

Good root development for optimum

nutrition plant.

Table top => Grow bags; pots or plant directly into the gutter

8 weeks crop varieties

(Elsanta, Sonata) or maybe

ever bearers, or ...

Everbearer growings. The item

to find out in the coming

years.

catch drainwater

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Covered with foil,

against rain/hail

risks

Important is light

and water / feed Tunnel with foil, protects growing, make

climate to get earliness.

Needs attention, to open and close each

day.

Covered with foil, taking no risks. Can be

closed total for making more earliness

Glasshouse growing

Winter

Spring

autumn

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•PH-level

•EC-level

•Water quality

•Weather

•Fertilizers

KNOWLEDGE

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• Resultaat Extractiemethode 1:1,5 volume met water • Ammonium (NH4) < 0,1 mmol/l. • Kalium (K) 0,7 mmol/l. • Natrium (Na) 0,4 mmol/l. • Calcium (Ca) 0,1 mmol/l. • Magnesium (Mg) < 0,1 mmol/l. • Nitraat (NO3) < 0,1 mmol/l. • Chloride (Cl) 0,6 mmol/l. • Sulfaat (SO4) 0,1 mmol/l. • Bicarbonaat (HCO3) < 0,1 mmol/l. • Fosfaat (P) < 0,03 mmol/l. • pH 6,9 • EC 0,2 mS/cm

• Silicium (Si) * 0,18 mmol/l. • IJzer (Fe) 1,8 μmol/l. • Mangaan (Mn) < 0,4 μmol/l. • Zink (Zn) < 0,2 μmol/l. • Borium (B) 4,7 μmol/l. • Koper (Cu) < 0,1 μmol/l. • Extractiemethode 1:1,5 volume met Bariumchloride • Kalium (K) 1,9 mmol/l. • Natrium (Na) 0,9 mmol/l. • Calcium (Ca) 7,9 mmol/l. • Magnesium (Mg) 0,9 mmol/l.

Substrate Coir analyse

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Substrate Possibilities

Peat-perlite mix

peat

Coir

Irrigation systems and water analysis

The analyse also the iron level => Fe total

Water quality, important for a good growing

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working with A and B and C is C acid tank

Acid

Mix tank

PH steering many times wrong, take care with

this system is installed correct, short drippings

that gives problems with PH steering.

Glasshouse strategy and possibilities.

Collecting rain water

Is clean water

Soil water trough

Osmose unit

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Osmose water

Drain water

purified water

recycling and disinfection

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Attention the CLIMATE

Now still many are familiar with Elsanta, glass

productions April- May, after table tops, later

autumn Elsanta, but times are changing rapidly at

present. Because ...... ...

familiar Elsanta, changed for an early

Clery tunnel growing, followed by everbearer, in

this case Murano.

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33 Murano Tray plant development

Times change

quickly. changing

supply patterns

winter

strawberries

December 2015

Now Sonata and

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2 types of lamps

stretching leaves => LED far-red

Day light => SON-T.

Times change

quickly. changing

supply patterns

winter

strawberries

December 2016

Here Murano,

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Pollination Bumblebees

Honeybees (mix)

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Good pollination: flowers

are taken out, catch the

flower steels/strawberries

on band for a good

size/shape growing.

Everbaerer cleaning/leave

cutting Worth of CO2

Count it ppm or

gram/M2/Hour

Worth of CO2

Under the gutter or in

de the plants

Better size, shape, taste

photosynthesis also

ever baerer

Climate control inside

misty system

water drippings

fans

Using roof sprinklers

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Heating systems

pipes below on the floor, to

use for work/picking cars

pipes direct under the gutter winter strawberries

Now Sonata, but also

Clery, in the test, also

Malling Centenary,

Magnum

Clery, from early

greenhouse

production,

next to the

Spanish in

supermarket. Is

already the 5th

year

Clery, this year

also on table

tops to be on

the market

earlier after the

glass

productions

Are (still)

predominantly

Dutch varieties

now it comes at

us from all over

Europe

Spain Varieties

like Dream;

Deluxe

France

Magnum;

Gariguette

Italy, many varieties,

best known Clery;

Murano. The breeding

development running

at full speed.

East Malling

Malling Cententanry

Elsanta,

Sonata,

Furore,

Favori,

etc.

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QUALITY

•ROOTS

•PLANTS

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Good developing of roots for

optimal feeding

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Traditonal

start with

beared

roots 48/5

1 truss 2 trusses 2,5 trusses 3-4 trusses

Plants sorted A +

Unsorted plants

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Waiting bed; potential

5-7 trusses=> 500 gram/plant

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June bearer tray plant

which at the

propagation totally

developed/prepared

is for cropping

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traditionally start with

bare roots

future production of

plants with insured

flower initiation

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Tray plant => better; fruit shape, fruit

size; weight per strawberry

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Special mixes for trayplants based on peat & coir

shows our tray fields,

nursery, research,

consultants challenge

Planted dec.

2015

It is not strange

anymore to find

ever bearers

tray plants in all

types at tray

fields

The challenge is to

have a regular

production,

setting up

different plant

types, tray

fields.

But especially

attention high

picking levels.

Our challenge in

2017

Familiar Elsanta,

but also Clery.

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As in Morocco; they take

over our cropping

systems, starting with

making tray plants These plants come to the

European market for

fresh plantings after

having enough cold

hours.

France, under net; less

thick as in Italy against the

sun and high temperatures

Italy Tray Plants start

under a black net

because of the bright sun

and extreme

temperatures that may be

there.

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Flower mapping

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first truss

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9

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6

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4

3

2

1

position position

4 potential trusses

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AXILLARY BUDS

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What do your plant???????????

always plant a plant from

which you know the

history and do a flower

mapping to know the

number of trusses which

can be expected.

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Plant material

propagator

Grower

consumer

Plant flow

Information flow

Optimal chain plants and production

This is not optimal at this time?

Future? Chain?

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Glasshouse or open field

stalones propagation ?????? What we learn?

Starting date making

stalones

Starting date tray plant

Normal – mini tray

Irrigation strategy

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Tray field Holland Murano

The discussion at the moment starting date

Tray normal – mini

Ammount of trusses

Tray field Holland Murano - the discussion

Cold store - Not in cold store

Glasshouse autumn growing direct from trayfield

winter spring crop with out chilling hours

2017 autumn in glasshouse direct from trayfield

Quality is: taste, shape and shelf life

Good precooled stalones

before planting or

transport

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Quality check Italy open

field propagation stalone

Quality check open field

stalone Italy

Start growing Italy

Start Clery tray with frigo

plant

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Soft fruit deserves all attention

Thank you for

your attention

Everbearers

Growing conditions, Systems

Plantmodels Harrie Pijnenburg

Presentation Everbaerers

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Planttypes

• Normal trayplant: 2-3 crowns 4-6 trusses

• mini tray: 2 crowns 4 trusses

• plugplant: 1-2 crowns 2-4 trusses

• frigo plant (A++ - A+ - A plant) 1 crown – 2

trusses

• fresh plant (cutting in same year as production)

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Minitray everbearer

Production Planttypes

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STRAWBERRY 'FLOWER MAPPING‘ Verkuijlen

Trayplant Murano

(1 = lowest position)

Bud length (cm) Development Truss Number of

Date Plantnr. Crownnr. Position Runner ≥ 1 0.2 -

1 < 0.2 stage length (cm) leaves Drawing

13 June 2017 1 1 first truss 11 11,00 11

13 June 2017 1 1 2 * 5 0,12 3 5

13 June 2017 1 1 1 * R R

13 June 2017 1 2 first truss 7 0,60 7

13 June 2017 1 2 4 * 5 0,10 1 5

13 June 2017 1 2 3 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 2 2 * R R

13 June 2017 1 2 1 * R R

13 June 2017 1 3 first truss 6 0,30 6

13 June 2017 1 3 3 * 3 0,05 2 3

13 June 2017 1 3 2 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 3 1 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 4 first truss 7 0,60 7

13 June 2017 1 4 3 * 3 0,04 1 3

13 June 2017 1 4 2 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 4 1 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 5 first truss 7 0,65 7

13 June 2017 1 5 4 * 6 0,18 1 6

13 June 2017 1 5 3 * 2 2

13 June 2017 1 5 2 * R R

13 June 2017 1 5 1 * R R

13 June 2017 1 6 first truss >11 34,00

>11

13 June 2017 1 6 1 * 6 0,30 2 6

13 June 2017 1 7 first truss >11 29,00

>11

13 June 2017 1 7 3 * 6 0,50 3 6

13 June 2017 1 7 2 * R R

13 June 2017 1 7 1 * R R

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Average stadium Flowerstems

Trayplant 9 1

Murano 8 0,7

7 1

13 juni 6 4,3

2017 5 1,3

4 0

3 0,7

Total 9 per plant

Tabletop + plastic Trayplant Murano

Flowermapping

Growingdegreehours 1/4 till 23/6: 24.000 gdh

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Murano Tunnel

31.800 gdh 16/3 t/m 22/6

(1 =

lowest position

)

Bud length

(cm) Development Truss

Number

of

Date Grower Sample code Plantnr. Crownnr. Position Runne

r ≥ 1

0.2

- 1

<

0.2 stage

length

(cm) leaves Drawing

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 1 first truss 7 0,60 7

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 1 1 * 5 0,12 1 5

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 2 first truss 8 2,20 8

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 2 1 * 6 0,22 1 6

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 3 first truss 9 3,30 9

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 3 2 * 5 0,14 1 5

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 3 1 * 2 2

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 4 first truss 8 1,80 8

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 4 2 * 7 0,60 1 7

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 4 1 * 6 0,30 2 6

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 5 first truss 9 3,60 9

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 5 1 - -

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 6 first truss 8 1,70 8

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 6 2 * 6 0,25 1 6

20 June 2017 G Broekkant Murano gekoeld 2 6 1 * R R

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Murano 6 juni 2017 Tunnel

Thanks for your attention