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jnunez918
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quick potato question

these are my leftover purple fingerling seed potatoes, ready to plant my second batch, and now I've confused myself. do you plant eyes down or up? and if down does that mean I bury the long sprouts or are they supposed to go up like I'm thinking??? :?

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shoots up, like you're thinking.

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I never bothered with how they went and some how the potatoes always known witch way to grow.
My grandma used to say you had to step on each one as you placed it in the furrow and I never did that either.
I have always had a pretty good crop of potatoes.
I am so looking forward to harvest this year they are all up and looking great it has been such a good spring so far.

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commercially potatoes are planted with a large automated planter. On my scale I use my transplanter attached to the tractor with the seedling feed chain unhooked and the seedling cradles removed. I just toss em down furrow opener and the closing wheels close and compact the furrow. Have potatoes coming out of my ears at the moment.

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!potatoes! wrote:shoots up, like you're thinking.
I'm surprised at long those are. I suppose this answers my question from the [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=257906#257906]other potato thread[/url].

It looks like a little bit of potato can grow a lot of shoot.

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TheWaterbug wrote:
!potatoes! wrote:shoots up, like you're thinking.
I'm surprised at long those are. I suppose this answers my question from the [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=257906#257906]other potato thread[/url].

It looks like a little bit of potato can grow a lot of shoot.


They just keep growing untill they have sucked all they can out of the potato. I have noticed the smaller ones will grow longer than the larger ones. I can only assume they are searching for soil and additional nutiants. I have planted just the stems that have broken off and they grow a real nice potato plant.



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