600w for strawberrys

i seen some strawberry plants about 1foot at home depot they look pretty healthy could i put them under a 600w mh/hps not sure what type the strawberrys are.

awesome! , i always wondered what those would do under my 600 to , i just never have the room

I haven't done it yet, but supposedly it's fine. I believe you can give the 12-18 hours of light a day. 18 would get you the best results obviously.

what do I need to get strawberry's.Just 18/6?Do they need to be pollinated for inside?or are they self pollination?

Yea, anywhere from 12-18 hours of light during the day will produce strawberries from what I read. And yea, you'll have to pollinate them yourself unless you got a crazy fan in there or something maybe.

I found this if you're not sure how to do it.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5797080_pollinate-strawberry-plants.html

thanks^^^want to start getting my feet wet on other grows indoor

sweet and i prefer 20/4.

Once I get my indoor setup done I plan on giving growing strawberries a crack at it. I would do 24/0 though with CFLs

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thanks^^^want to start getting my feet wet on other grows indoor

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No prob man. And it looks like 20/4 is what they are recommending for the biggest fruits.

yea try it out man you wont go back to normal veg cycle.

Im curious to see how they do once the harvest is done. They are a perineal (spelling?) meaning they go dormant in the winter which is triggered by less light as well as a drop in tmperatures IDK if it would screw up their internal clock to keept em on 18/6.... just thinking out loud. You could always just throw the container in your garage over the winter untill spring and then give it a little nutes and light again and it'll come back nice. Another thing I recommend with strawberries is plucking the flowers your first year, you wont' get any strawberries but you will get some nice runners which will set you up for a bountyfull harvest the following year.

Are you looking at June bearing or everbearing?

Bear in mind, your 2-year old plants normally produce more fruit, so you sort-of have to keep it sort of on-going. Mother-fruiters-young uns.

how long does a strawberry take to make a fruit from sprout on a 20-4 schedule?