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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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.

Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
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where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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).

On Oct 2, 3:07 pm, jon wrote:
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.

Photoperiodism? Preference for cooler weather?

Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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).

IIRC, potatoes are ready for harvest as soon as the plant
wilts, in early summer.

Ferd Farkel wrote:
On Oct 2, 3:07 pm, jon wrote:
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.

Photoperiodism? Preference for cooler weather?

Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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).


That would carry the assumption that a plant with few leaves is
growing prolifically
below ground. It makes more commonsense that the below ground growth
occurrs
with lush above ground leaf structure.



IIRC, potatoes are ready for harvest as soon as the plant
wilts, in early summer.

Perhaps what is going on is that potatoes have two harvests per one
single year, where
they produce potatoes and then dormant and then when Autumn comes
around, that the
newly produced potatoes have their own spurt of new growth.

Something has to explain why every year my potatoes are lush in
Spring, then go almost
leafless during summer even when I water them and then spring back
into lush foliage
by Autumn.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
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On Oct 3, 1:34 pm, a_plutonium wrote:
Ferd Farkel wrote:
On Oct 2, 3:07 pm, jon wrote:
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.

Photoperiodism? Preference for cooler weather?

Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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).

That would carry the assumption that a plant with few leaves is
growing prolifically
below ground. It makes more commonsense that the below ground growth
occurrs
with lush above ground leaf structure.

IIRC, potatoes are ready for harvest as soon as the plant
wilts, in early summer.

Perhaps what is going on is that potatoes have two harvests per one
single year, where
they produce potatoes and then dormant and then when Autumn comes
around, that the
newly produced potatoes have their own spurt of new growth.

This makes sense.

Potatoes are not roots, but tubers, offshoots of vegetative
stems, not roots. This is why they're buried in deep trenches
and hilled as they grow.

Something has to explain why every year my potatoes are lush in
Spring, then go almost
leafless during summer even when I water them and then spring back
into lush foliage
by Autumn.

Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Ferd Farkel wrote:


This makes sense.

Potatoes are not roots, but tubers, offshoots of vegetative
stems, not roots. This is why they're buried in deep trenches
and hilled as they grow.

I wonder if they have completed the genome of both the tomato and
potato. I believe
the origins of potato are South America and the origins of tomato
somewhere in Africa.
So I suspect that tomatoes were earlier in evolution then potatoes and
that some
tomato found its way to South America and with the cooler mountain
climate became
the potato.


I am not sure of the time reckoning of Continental Drift from Africa
land bridges to South
America for things such as monkeys and camel to llama. And whether
tomato to
potato. Seems as though Continental drift is hundreds of millions,
even billions of years
whereas plant and animal species is a few million years so how much
Continental
Drift plays into this.

One of the reasons I suspect this is because I noticed on some
potatoes a tomato
like growth.

A genomics of these two species should provide clues as to which came
first and whether
one is the ancestor of the other.


Archimedes Plutoniumwww.iw.net/~a_plutonium
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