Sprouting seed potatoes

msb · Mar 29, 2009

Better to keep them in the dark? Light ? Warm ? Cold ? Or does it make little difference ?

Lanse · Mar 29, 2009

we just hang ours from the basement celing

henkie · Mar 29, 2009

put them in the light make sure they get no frost
you can cut them in half length way's let the cut part dry and now you will have double the number

georgeky · Mar 29, 2009

We cut ours in 4 or 5 pieces depending on size. As long as each piece has at least one eye it make taters. Old folks use to plant the peelings and eat the tater.

I usually let mine sprout in the ground. I planted 200 pounds last week and have another to plant around April 10th.

Handyman · Mar 29, 2009

Once potatoes start to sprout they will be determined to grow, you can knock the sprouts off and they will just put out new sprouts.just keep them from freezing from now on untill you are ready to plant them then cut them so you have three eyes per seed set and plant them about 4 inches deep and spaced about 10 to 12 inches apart in rows.

El Toro · Mar 29, 2009

That's a lot of potatoes. A lot of people don't know all the ways you can prepare potatoes. When
I was a kid at home we ate them fried with eggs poured over them, sometimes mashed, Au Gratin, potato salad and French fried. . We also raised sweet potatoes and my mother would canned them.

My daughter has started raising a garden too. Hal

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

the light , we greensprout potatoes in a greenhouse on flats to get a early start on the season, if they sprout in the dark they will be long and spindly and will break off when planting, a green sprouted piece of seed will have a short compact sprout that will emerge faster then one that hasnt been green sprouted. or keep them colder so they dont sprout.

mazemeister · Mar 29, 2009

"best" is to keep them during the winter around 40 deg F, then depending on location, around this time of year, slowly warm them up. If you want to get your garden going early, you can green sprout like has been mentioned. or just plant them unsprouted. commercially, for maximum yield, we would aim for a 2 oz seed piece- so small ones go whole, bigger ones are split, even bigger are 3-cut, 4-cut, and huge ones are 6-cut. as long as each piece has at least 1 eye- no "blind" seed pieces- they'll grow. that's for maximum yield per acre- if you only have a few tubers and want maximum yield per pound of seed- probably want to cut them smaller and get more plants

this past week i got ours out of winter storage and put in the greenhouse to warm up. cut a few at a time until my hand gets stiff, and before you know it, they're all done.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

Funny, I bought some seed potatoes last spring, I put them in our sun room, south facing room, can get up to 80-90 degrees in there, got busy and never planted them until about August, they were sproting just fine, no water just on the table. Well I planted them and the season ran out. OH I got potatoes from them........ the size of a small egg, and smaller lol. Needless to say this year Im gonna get them in the ground on time. j

jack harmon · Mar 30, 2009

I've planted them all my life ,and never heard of anyone sprouting them!we allways just cut them up and put em in the ground.learn something every day!

cimbidion · Apr 6, 2009

A couple of months ago my daughter put a potatoe in a glass jar with toothpicks holding it up. She kept it filled with water. Now we have about 6 4-5 sprouts and tons of roots. Should I just plant it, or shuld I cut it up 1st? Thanks!

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