On Sep 30, 4:11 pm, a_plutonium wrote:
Do potato plants have a summer time dormancy in their genetics, for I
notice they
do well only in Spring and Fall.

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Are you observing the above ground growth as "doing well"? Maybe
during the summer months most of the photosynthesized food is going
into producing below ground biomass (making potatoes).