Discoloured potato leaves

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Discoloured potato leaves
« on: May 30, 2022, 13:32 »
Leaves suggest not all is well!
Only one pot is showing this way the others (5) are normal colour. Is it a fungal disease? And will the spuds be okay?
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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2022, 20:59 »
I doubt the spuds will be up too much with leaves like that as they won’t be generating much food to swell them. Think I’d bin them now in case whatever this one has spreads.

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2022, 13:45 »
Leaves suggest not all is well!
Only one pot is showing this way the others (5) are normal colour. Is it a fungal disease? And will the spuds be okay?
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It looks like a deficiency of either nitrogen or magnesium, or both to me.
You could try Epsom Salts or a general purpose fertiliser.  Was the growing medium in this bag different to the others?

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2022, 15:05 »
Epsom salts does wonders followed in about 10 days by a general purpose fertiliser.

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2022, 10:40 »
Leaves suggest not all is well!
Only one pot is showing this way the others (5) are normal colour. Is it a fungal disease? And will the spuds be okay?
Thanks cc
It looks like a deficiency of either nitrogen or magnesium, or both to me.
You could try Epsom Salts or a general purpose fertiliser.  Was the growing medium in this bag different to the others?
I put my own compost at the bottom and top up with bought compost.
All will be the same but the bought compost may be a different brand.
I have somewhere some potato fertiliser, which I invariably forget to use.
I have never used Epsom salts, I think I read on here you should add it to comfrey?.
I will order some now.
Are all Epsom Salts the same?
It appears its also used in the bath?

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2022, 15:15 »
There's only one Epsom salt (chemically, it's magnesium sulphate.)

Don't overdo it - it's a trace element, so a teaspoonful dissolved in a watering can of water should do the trick, and shouldn't need repeating during the relatively short growing cycle of potatoes (it is possible to have too much of a good thing!)
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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2022, 15:17 »
There's only one Epsom salt (chemically, it's magnesium sulphate.)

Don't overdo it - it's a trace element, so a teaspoonful dissolved in a watering can of water should do the trick, and shouldn't need repeating during the relatively short growing cycle of potatoes (it is possible to have too much of a good thing!)

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2022, 12:29 »
Oh well didn't make it. Near enough died off. Not taking the spuds out yet. Remove leaves put in garage window sill and don't water
 I store potatoes this way over winter
 Soil drying out I assume keeps them good. Always in plant pots.
PS doing it because I don't need them at them at the moment. When I over winter I let the leaves die off naturally.

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Re: Discoloured potato leaves
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2022, 14:11 »
Decided as there was some nice green leaves coming through to just remove the yellowed leaves. Now looking very healthy.
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