[katiekate]

Hello,

I'm new here and fear for my seed potatoes..

They've spent about a month in brown bags that were in a carrier bag in my room. They have spouted already (whiteish purple at 2 inches)  and are fairly soft, a little fluffy, and have a lot of thin white roots! The bag is moist..

Are they doomed? Should I give them up for a lost cause and replace them? I have an allotment and don't want to waste space planting pots that want do well!

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!!!

[bigben]

I would be tempted to rub off the chits you have so far. It is not too late to start again. Cool room with some sun - you are aiming for purple or dark chits. Avoid dark which leads to thin chits.

[DD.]

bigben beat me to it, I had the following post prepared, which backs him up, so I'll do it anyway......

They need to be somewhere light, cool and airy, not sealed up in a plastic bag where they can't breath.

Rub the existing chits off as they will be weak and they should shoot again. Get them set up in a tray where the conditions are as above.

[Ma and Pa Snip]

Hi and welcome

Sounds to me that not only have they been kept too warm and in the dark but if the bag is damp as well  they are fighting an up hill battle.

Doing as bigben & DD suggests should work, assuming all the eyes in them havent chitted already and the seed potato doesn't just rot through damp.

Providing they are now kept dry I reckon you will be alright.

Last year we had some of our best sized spuds from the odd few that I had missed digging out the ground in 2009. Yours cannot have got damper than those ones did being in the ground overwinter.

Surprisingly, they came up later than the ones planted in 2010 but they soon caught up and gave good clean yield.

[flitwickone]

i endorse all of the above mine camp on top of the kitchen cupboards and do fine up there and i remeber someone on the forums saying if you have two samll ones    then plant em together

[Salmo]

Rub the strouts off and keep them cool and light. Maybe spray them with a light mist of water every day to see if you can re-hydrate them, or al least stop them getting more shrivelled. Do not get them too wet or they may rot.