[The Golden Heap]

Mrs Heap as objected about the location of potatoe seeds for chitting.  I have moved them to a weird turret I have above my stairs, no where near heat but bright, too close behind glass? I am not sure

[mumofstig]

looks an ideal spot to me - are those windows double glazed?

[Yorkie]

Do they get direct sunlight?

[8doubles]

I think you would be suprised how warm it can get at high level in a stairwell, most of the heat from downstairs heating and cooking ends up going in that direction.
I always start seedlings off upstairs if possible because of this.

[RJR_38]

Mine are on a window sill  like that but north facing

[The Golden Heap]

It's south facing double glazed, Gets full sun, i think its cooler then the landing as its half way up the stairs. 

[gavinjconway]

Full sun is baddddd.. need light but not sun.

[3 allotments]

I was chitting some of mine in a south spot but then moved them to the dark as they had thin white chits,now they are in a north facing window they look ok now healthy greeny purple shoots

[cadalot]

So far I'm still getting away with them being in their egg crates in a fold out crate in the kitchen - The agreement is that I'm supposed to be only bringing them in from the shed at night 

[A Reyt Tayty]

I always do my chitting in the back bedroom. No heating on, southwest facing widow. Tayties on a shelf just to the left of the window. Never had a bad result yet.

[Wiltshire Worms]

Ours are on southwest facing windowsill.with net shading from direct Sun.not much of that to worry about....Mrs w paraphernalia needs to find temporary alternative accommodation for  a few weeks

[Totty]

Mine are always chitted in the frost free greenhouse. It's nice and cool in there, and plenty of light. The lower the temp, means the seed pots will chit slower and when given plenty of light, they will produce very stumpy strong green chits. Never had any reason to avoid direct sunlight, as I mentioned I always chit in the greenhouse with full sun and I seem to do ok. Light levels at this time of year are much lower than late spring and summer so not sure how direct light is supposed to have a negative effect.

Totty

[JayG]

I don't think too much sunlight is a problem per se, it's just that indoors the sunnier the location the warmer the room is likely to be, so the tubers will shrivel more quickly than they would in a north-facing window, for instance, although whether the room is heated or not will obviously also have a bearing on it.

If the chits remain short, sturdy and purple/green the spud is still viable to plant - I've kept "spares" until August and they still didn't look like crisps with chits on (well, not quite, anyway!  )