You could, but is not beccessary to split existing clump in order for them to grow offsets. In their natural habitat, they grow in tigth clumps, sending stolons wherever, with new offsets at the ends. Look at photos posted by Dave in this [- CURRENT THREAD -[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/sic-semper-strawberry-pot-dsvw-vd~5671558?n=9). He grows them beautifully...you can see how many offsets there are. This is JMO, but they look best if grown like that.

I know what you mean, Rita. I wish to separate the three, so the chicks can form a circle around the mother plant. Wonder if it's too soon to disturb the plant again.

Rina, your plants grow very well!

How many chicks will a mature growth produce in a season?

Ok, done!

The size of the top pot is 14 inches. Once the Semp starts to produce chicks, the small pots can be removed.

There is no 'rule' as of number of chicks. These were divided at the same time, last summer, and as you can see, 3 in same pot didn't produce any (pic 2). They were bit smaller than plant in pic 1, but not too much. So maybe that makes difference - IDK for sure:

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Some more, in different pot. These may have had some chicks, but very few. I'll see if I can find 'before' photo:

rina your 'oddity' grows so well-mine are in a perpetual state of slow decline-without ever quite vanishing.

Dave

Thanks. I am jealous of all of yours!

Oddity is doing surprisingly well. I bougt a single pot in June 2016:

Now, I have more of them than other semps, I think I got all of them in this pic - gave away 3 pots like the black square ones:

They are growing more compact, original plant had much longer leaves. I like them this way, and reddish too (I guess they are bit stressed).

Rina, thanks again for sharing!

By the way, glad to report that my semps have good roots.

Rina: how do you overwinter them, just leave them outside or need to move them into a shed or garage? Thanks

rockdale

Tag said hardy to z6, but I found info that they are hardier. I didn't want to loose plant, so first winter I left half outside and another half in unheated garage (it gets below freezing). Both survived. I left them outside for next 2 winters, in a bit protected spot. - uder some wooden shelves. They get snowed on, but snow is not a problem. Freezing rain is... Over the years, I found that even semps hardy to z3 will die if there is lots of thawing and freezing and drainage is bad. I lost few semps two winters ago, when we had freezing rain few times, lasting few days each time. Then it got warm fast. There was crust of ice on top, and it all thawed suddenly, but rest of mix was still frozen so water was just sitting there. Few turned to mush. These are all in pots.