Managing strawberry growth cycle by means of mobile orchard technique: a synergic interaction of different climatic

Soilless strawberry cultivation allows the seasonal movement in environments characterized by different climatic conditions, which might lead, for junebearing strawberry, to the development of unusual growth cycles compared to the original growing site. This study was conducted over two years’ biannual cycles, in a seasonally delocalized plantation from a mountain site in Trentino to one in the lowland of Verona (Northern Italy), according to the mobility technique. The interpolation between climatic indexes and production results allows to correlate horticultural aspects like the type of the plant and the transplant date with the date of delocalization of the plant and resetting in the original site, in order to manipulate the growing cycle. The effects on the vegetative and reproductive phase, thus production, follow precise inputs derived from phenological definite stages and precise climatic events. Starting from historical data it is possible to define the best interaction phenotype-timing for the management of the plantation, maintaining also the flexibility to adjustments during the vegetative-productive cycle based on the thermic evolution of the year