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Potatoes with no flowers
I have been gardening for a long time but have never had this before. None
of the potatoes flowered. Two rows of Maris Peer and two rows of Pentland Javelin. They have a very big crop underneath them. I have had a row or so before that never flowered but not all of them. I assume that I treated them so well that they didn't feel the need to flower. They had a trench of manure under them and were planted with blood fish and bone fertiliser. Does anyone have any other ideas? |
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Potatoes with no flowers
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The Devil's Advocate no spam no rudeness wrote: I have been gardening for a long time but have never had this before. None of the potatoes flowered. Two rows of Maris Peer and two rows of Pentland Javelin. They have a very big crop underneath them. I have had a row or so before that never flowered but not all of them. I assume that I treated them so well that they didn't feel the need to flower. They had a trench of manure under them and were planted with blood fish and bone fertiliser. Does anyone have any other ideas? The weather. The theory that you had to wait until they flowered always was based on the fact that the two events of flowering and producing a crop were roughly simultaneous - in potatoes, they never were closely linked. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Potatoes with no flowers
On 18 Jun 2003 18:10:24 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , The Devil's Advocate no spam no rudeness wrote: I have been gardening for a long time but have never had this before. None of the potatoes flowered. Two rows of Maris Peer and two rows of Pentland Javelin. They have a very big crop underneath them. I have had a row or so before that never flowered but not all of them. I assume that I treated them so well that they didn't feel the need to flower. They had a trench of manure under them and were planted with blood fish and bone fertiliser. Does anyone have any other ideas? The weather. The theory that you had to wait until they flowered always was based on the fact that the two events of flowering and producing a crop were roughly simultaneous - in potatoes, they never were closely linked. Regards, Nick Maclaren. There was a short item in New Scientists recently saying that new tests indicate that stopping the potato plants flowering (by cutting them off) can produce up to 17% larger crop with better quality spuds. I suppose it's to do with the energy the plant would use in the flowers being diverted. Tim. |
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