Damping-off plants rarely recover. If I was going to try, I'd treat it the way you treat root rot: reduce their light and wind exposure, decrease the soil moisture, increase the relative humidity at the leaves, and potentially remove some leaves. This slows down evaporation losses to the plant while it operates on stored energy to try to repair the damage. Obviously if the bags are a problem, you'll need to get them out of the bags and into well-aerated soil first. Also, since strawberries spread by runners, I'd expect them to be able to re-root well from stems, so I'd try planting them deeper than they were before when you relocate them.

Of course, if you have some that *haven't* started damping off yet, and you have an environment that's encouraging it, by all means, get them out of there before they do!

I'm back and forth between trying wicking (since some plants are happy in the bag), and abandoning the bags completely, and moving all of them to beds, with the bulk of my strawberry plants.

Some of the plants in bags have nice big, healthy looking crowns with nice growth coming off of them. But others are dead completely.

The problem I have encountered with grow bags is total lack of flavor! sure you still get lots of berries but they taste no better than store bought IMHO and if you forget to water once or twice a day in the summer they will wilt! so I started planting them in 1 gl pots...the flavor returned mostly, so this year I'm going to 2 gl pots started last fall...should be perfect; I also have beds and the pots are just to see which size pot works the best for the most flavorful berries.

I think that settles my plans for me... no more strawberries in bags. I'll stick with 2gal self-watering planters (1 or 2 plants each) and bed the majority of them.

thank you