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Chitting Potatoes

Asked by Don Foley 24 March 2018 4 replies in Sowing and Growing

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  1. Don Foley #45782

    Hi Charles/All,

    I’m about to plant Potatoes (1st. earlies) tomorrow. I have had them chitting for about 6-7 weeks and they all show healthy sprouts. I usually remove all but two or three sprouts. It occurred to me as I was removing them to ask the following.
    You often find multiple sprouts from one point and single sprouts from others. I have always considered the multiple sprouts as counting as three or four sprouts (depending on the number emerging) but I got to thinking would these multiple sprouts be less vigorous then the single sprouts as they are all emerging from the one “eye”?
    Or am I just overthinking things?

    Don.

  2. Don Foley #45804

    Hi All,

    I’ve now been told that you should remove all but one sprout from the multiple sprout and not count them as 2, 3 or 4 individual sprouts. Any thoughts anyone?

    Don.

  3. Charles Dowding #45806

    Don, why? Is it to have fewer and bigger potatoes? If so it depends what your aim is.

  4. Don Foley #45807

    Hi Charles, I would always look to have 2 or 3(ideally) sprouts on each tuber when planting. My question is; where you have multiple sprouts from one eye does this count as 1 or for example, 3 if you have 3 sprouts from that one eye.

  5. Charles Dowding #45808

    Sorry don’t know

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