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Post by gilbert on Mar 31, 2016 10:49:54 GMT -5
I'm thinking about planting my seed potatoes in pots of soil, letting them grow, and then transplanting them.
I have a number of reasons for wanting to do this.
In my towers, I want to be able to transplant the potatoes sideways, with the stems sticking out the sides of the tower and the roots in the moist center of the tower. If I just planted seed potatoes in the center, they would not make it out.
Outdoors, we are still having cold weather on and off, and, worse, there is too much mud to work the potato patch. I'm wondering if transplants would give me a jump on the season.
What do you think? Do potatoes transplant well?
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Post by billw on Mar 31, 2016 13:18:39 GMT -5
Potatoes transplant very well, but they grow quickly from tubers and if you keep them in the pots too long, they will begin to form tubers and the final yield will be small. Probably best not to have them in pots for more than three weeks.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 31, 2016 14:58:58 GMT -5
As previous poster said, they transplant well but don't yield well. There will be lots of foliage but little yield. If stolons begin to produce tubers, which they will sooner than you might think, they are usually damaged in transplanting and will not regenerate as roots will.
Martin
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