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early spuds?
« on: May 05, 2010, 17:43 »
put some early spuds(foremost) in large pots  (i think mid march). theyre about 2ft high and flowering. how long from flowers to harvest please?

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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 17:54 »
they usually say 10-12 weeks from planting for earlies (some are faster than others :) ).
But you could always have a little feel around in the compost and see if there are any worth eating yet, if not leave them a bit longer :)

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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 19:14 »
Once the flowers are forming (assuming it is a flowering variety of course  :lol: )
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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 20:40 »
Take the flowers off, you want all the plants evergy going into the crop, not producing seeds. :D

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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 21:31 »
Take the flowers off, you want all the plants evergy going into the crop, not producing seeds. :D

Potatoes are meant to flower so you know they are ready. Never heard of taking the flowers off, never known it to reduce the crop by leaving them on.  Then the haulms die back (in mains anyway) and presto spuds. I have found harvesting prior to flowering and you do get less of a crop.
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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 22:01 »
When a plant flowers it wants to make seeds. If you are a gardener growing potatoes you don`t want that, you want the plant growing potatoes. So you remove the seed growing organs. :tongue2:

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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2010, 22:50 »
Never heard of commercial growers removing flowers so I can't see it making any difference to yields.

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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2010, 23:03 »
Then again a commercial grower won't want to bother going round removing the flowers...

It is normal in most allotment veg crops that we don't wont flower production.  :)

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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2010, 09:06 »
what ever happened to the word "Furtle" whats all this feel business please  :lol:
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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2010, 09:07 »
 :lol:

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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2010, 09:51 »
Jeepers Plottered, haven't had a good Furtle in years. off to the plot for me tonight. I'll be furtleing everything.
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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2010, 09:54 »
Jeepers Plottered, haven't had a good Furtle in years. off to the plot for me tonight. I'll be furtleing everything.


Make sure you only furtle your plants or you might find your collar getting furtled!    :ohmy: :lol:
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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2010, 10:40 »
Furtle is such a good word.  It sounds as though it comes from Round the Horn.  That shows my age  ;)

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Re: early spuds?
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2010, 17:09 »
I am sure we had this conversation last year about flowering potatoes. :D
As stated not all potatoes flower.
Flowers are normally an indication that potatoes are forming and they will be formed quicker on earlies.
With maincrops you have to wait until the haulms die before you harvest them if you want the largest possible harvest.
A top technique used by exhibition growers is to remove the flowers so that all the energy is put towards the potatoes.
This year has been such a backward year that harvest times and lengths could be affected.
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