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Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: frazzy on June 30, 2007, 08:59
i dug some potatoes up yesterday and they are covered in tiny pinprick white spots should i be worried i,ve never seen any thing like it on my potatoes before . are they the start of rot or something more sinister my allotment is very wet but not flooded.
Title: Re: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: mercury on June 30, 2007, 11:10
Quote from: "frazzy"
i dug some potatoes up yesterday and they are covered in tiny pinprick white spots should i be worried i,ve never seen any thing like it on my potatoes before . are they the start of rot or something more sinister my allotment is very wet but not flooded.


Same hear frazzy, i think its a type of fungus, don't worry about it, i'm not :)  :wink:
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: WG. on June 30, 2007, 11:12
I think the spots are caused by very wet soil.  Reckon you'll be fine.
Title: potatos
Post by: slowcompost on June 30, 2007, 13:56
RE white spots on potatos. Are the tops showing signs of die back, if so I think its a sign of potato blight.  Had it on mine and some of tubers were starting to rot. Probably aggrivated by wet weather.
If it is blight you need to get them up as quickly as possible, even then they probably wont keep long.
Its tough on gardeners this year.
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: frazzy on June 30, 2007, 17:29
thanx guys
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: Sven The Swede on July 01, 2007, 04:28
I dug some spuds up yesterday and 3 of them add white spots just washed them and they look ok to me. This year I feel is not gonna be a great one for me everything down my allotment looks sad if you know what I mean.
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: mandycharlie on July 07, 2007, 22:39
Found it...  cause my spuds are suffering too.

Its .... wait for ... drum roll... Swollen Lenticels..

Impressed eh ???

anyway this guy has a good piccie on his blog.

White Spots (Lenticels) on Potatoes (http://www.allotment-garden.org/grow-your-own/garden-diary/2012-08/potato-troubles,-white-spots-on-potatoes)
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: mercury on July 07, 2007, 22:52
Swolen lenticels eh, that sounds painful :roll:  :roll:  :lol:
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: Sadgit on July 08, 2007, 08:44
Quote from: "mandycharlie"
Found it...  cause my spuds are suffering too.

Its .... wait for ... drum roll... Swollen Lenticels..

Impressed eh ???

anyway this guy has a good piccie on his blog, click on the piccie of the spud to enlarge it.

http://www.quixotic.org.uk/Projects/Garden/Diary.shtml


Good find as I had the exact same white spots on  mine, tasted nice still so I didn't worry :)
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: mum of 3 on July 09, 2007, 08:40
some of mine were the same yesterday so we dug them all up(ground was so wet)took them home cleaned and dried them and they are now in the outhouse in boxes :) ,so hopefully they will last a while although its jacket spuds for hubby's pack up all week :lol:
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: Sadgit on July 09, 2007, 08:56
been down to the plot this morning to dig up my 1st spuds (dug up spuds at home and they are fine) and they aren't well. No blight, but a bit of wireworm and rot has set in. from 3 plants I got maybe 10 spuds... not happy.

the ground was soaking wet 5 inches down.

hoping my pink fir apples will be ok in a few months time, as I put them in about 3-4 weeks ago and no sign of them yet....
Title: tiny white marks on my potatoes
Post by: ytyynycefn on July 09, 2007, 10:10
I've only dug up my salad Juliet spuds, and they've been OK, but not a very high yield - but I put this down to not manuring, and planting straight into freshly cleared soil.

I planted all my maincrops and salad spuds through black plastic (the desirees had a layer of manure under the plastic) - so the soil has stayed quite dry even with all this rain.  There's been a bit of slug damage, but no fungus yet (fingeres crossed!).  I put this mulch down to keep the moisture IN (remembering last summer!), but it's actually done a fine job of keeping it out  :lol: