Strawberries sending out runners

In each of two hanging baskets, I put a strawberry plant. They didn't produce much and i haven't given them much thought, but now they are each sending out a runner with some new plant starts. I'm pleased at the prospect of more plants, but not sure how to proceed.

Can I snip the little plants and put each into a new pot?
Or do I need to let the little things get rooted in soil before snipping them?
Or are they supposed to always stay attached?

It's tricky since they're in hanging baskets. What would you do?
Thanks!

My new strawberries in a pyramid are making lots of runners, too. I also don't know how to deal with them. It seems if I let them all root there will be way too many plants, so I have been cutting most of them off. I would think if you want more plants you could use lika a sandwich baggie- put some soil in, and make a little bed for the runner until it is well rooted, then plant it where you want it. But if you only want the HB, cut all the runners off.

Thanks, JoParrott.

Yeah, my patio kind of needs those hanging baskets or it looks plain. I was thinking about maybe pulling out the whole strawberry plant and putting it in another place, where I can let the runners find some dirt. But I guess my real question for anyone, is whether or not the new little plants would survive if I just went ahead and snipped them now and just potted them up or found a place in the garden bed for them. That way I could leave my original hanging basket as is.

I guess I could just try a few and see what happens!

Good luck with your pyramid.

In my experience the runners need some roots to survive after being cut off. My pyramid is doing fantastic- I need to go thin them out, I think. There are runners all crisscrossed everywhere, and I don't want the plants to get too crowded- I want big berries next year! I'll post a photo soon.

They seem to have little roots, but I'm guessing that's not the same as the ones that would develop in soil. I'll go ahead a try a couple by snipping, but will probably go ahead and take down the hanging baskets.

Okay, I just realized I'm the biggest idiot out there. All I have to do is take down the pots and put different pots in the hangers. **The chains are not actually attached to the pots at all. **(SLAPPING FOREHEAD). Granted, the new stuff will not be as pretty, but at least there will be something up there. Okay, I have solved my problem -- with your assistance! Thanks!

Well that didn't work. I set the pot that had several strawberry runners hanging from it down onto the ground, then anchored the little plants down onto the soil with some landscape 'staple' shaped wires. And voila! Went out the next day to find every little baby plant gone -- guess some rodent or something couldn't resist a tender little appetizer..

But at now I can rehang my basket with no more guilt, lol.