Thanks again for all your help in the past.

I am planning a big strawberry grow this summer, my first. Got some questions and would really appreciate some advice. My goal is to max out on number of plants, and I think that long runs of pvc setup as an nft is the way to go for output and easy of admin.

Pump issues aside, I will run two so if one goes . . . what do you think of my setup up, anything more productive and still as easy?

Whats the min. diameter pvc I can get away with (e.g., 2")?

Whats the min. I can space the plants from each other - soil seems to suggest 12", I'd like to go closer if possible. I plan to grow day neutral/everbearing?

Will I run into o2 depletion issues if I have 24ft runs - the res will be aerated?

I am ordering bareroot plants, and I have never before, can they just get put right into the pvc or do I need to plan on some kind of incubation?

Any insight is appreciated, thank you.

If you're intending to grow strawberries using thin film method, think twice. Strawberries don't like wet feet (roots). In fact, they don't like much of anything.

Strawberries and tomatoes are all we grow and now we're not even doing that. We've decided to grow tomatoes exclusively, based simply on all the trouble we got into trying to grow strawberries.

If your heart is set on this method, I'd suggest intermittent aeration within each trough and especially if each tube is ten feet long or longer. Oxygen seems to be the golden ticket where strawberries are concerned.