08-08-2015, 09:08 PM
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: May 2008
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Originally Posted by Ecnerwal
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mike crowe wrote:
I have three potato plants in tubs and the tops are now about 3 ft high
with plenty of flowers and the poisonous 'Green Tomatoes'. Does the
prolific foliage and flowers on top indicate a massive crop under? .....
(Well no harm in hoping)
Your lower crop would benefit some if you had trimmed off the flowers,
so the plant was not wasting energy on the "green tomatoes" - but given
they are that far along, you might amuse yourself with leaving the ones
that have formed and seeing if you can get any seeds to sprout, and if
the resulting potatoes are worth being a new variety (any from seed will
be new, what's unknown is new good, new indifferent, or new bad - as
with many plant-breeding crapshoots.) Any new/current flowers should be
pinched out for better potato cropping.
If you are curious about the state of the under-crop at present,
consider "grabbling" - literally poking your hands in and harvesting
potatoes without pulling up the whole plant. If you want maximum yield,
rather than new potatoes now, wait. If you want new potatoes now,
grabble.
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Thanks for that info. Have duly 'deflowered' the potatoes.
Going for bumper crop.
:-)
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