potatoes drying out

moggy · « **on:** February 25, 2008, 19:44 »

hi everyone.

just a quick one really.....the potatoes im chitting seem to be doing well but a couple of them seem to have dried out and shrivelled up a bit, is this normal? should they be kept or thrown out?

richyrich7 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2008, 19:53 »

It does happen a slight wrinkle as it's chitting is normal, some do some don't as long as it's still growing then I'd say it's fine.

moggy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2008, 19:58 »

cool ta, my freebie spuds just arrived so ive started them chitting,

my chillis are doing well although i keep forgetting to take photies of them lol

richyrich7 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2008, 20:00 »

Hey my freebie spuds arrived today as well

ditchdigger · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2008, 20:02 »

some of ours usually shrivel a bit, like rr7. says nothing to worry about. what chilli's are you growing? anything a bit special.

moggy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2008, 20:11 »

ive gone for pretty standard ones this year - got loads of different varieties from over the years but decided to keep it simple this year by planting

chilli fuego, mystery pepper, hot portugal, orange habenero,espanol or hidalgo, exlosive ember,purple tiger black chilli pepper, ive also planted some pepino some, courgette (yellow),crystal lemon cucumber,

i think most of them have germinated apart from the black chilli and orange habenero so fingers crossed for those.

ditchdigger · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2008, 20:20 »

Quote from: "moggy"

most of them have germinated apart from the black chilli

funnily enough our hungarian black are doing best of all. managed to get hold of some trinidad scorpion seed this year aswell.

Swee'pea · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2008, 20:29 »

Quote from: "moggy"

ive gone for pretty standard ones this year - got loads of different varieties from over the years but decided to keep it simple this year by planting

chilli fuego, mystery pepper, hot portugal, orange habenero,espanol or hidalgo, exlosive ember,purple tiger black chilli pepper, ive also planted some pepino some, courgette (yellow),crystal lemon cucumber,

i think most of them have germinated apart from the black chilli and orange habenero so fingers crossed for those.

These tend to be a bit slow to germinate my OH reliably informs me so time yet

swee'pea

moggy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2008, 21:05 »

yeah my habs have always taken ages to germinate lol

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