early spuds question

We let our main crop flower before harvesting but you can harvest early variety once the flowers have opened.   But that is usual practice for crops grown outside, not in sacks in a PT.  The good thing about planting outside is that you can sort of take a peek without disturbing the plant too much.  Not sure how you'd go about that in a sack.

The thing that I don't know is if there is some trigger in the flowers opening that means that potato quantity or quality is better after this point.  When a plant flowers it's chemical balance shifts.    For the sake of a week or two I'd sit on my hands and wait for the flowers.

for earlies you dont have to wait for floowers but if i where you i would give them a couple of weeks and keep watering this will make the spuds swell.in the winter it takes four months in summer its around three months from planting thats just rough estimate i used to grow them to sell thats the times i used to work with.

I think Rocket is different from some of the other earlies as it's only supposed to take 8 weeks from planting to harvest.  I trying it this year and I'm guessing that there will just be a few very early potatoes.  The foliage has certainly been growing much quicker than any of my other potatoes.   I shall be having a furtle in a couple of week, weather permitting 

I think Rocket is different from some of the other earlies as it's only supposed to take 8 weeks from planting to harvest.  I trying it this year and I'm guessing that there will just be a few very early potatoes.  The foliage has certainly been growing much quicker than any of my other potatoes.   I shall be having a furtle in a couple of week, weather permitting 

I tried Rocket this year too, but I actually ended up trying 5 varieties of earlies in containers, as an experiment. I carefully labelled and dated every one, but sadly I was having a blonde day and didn't use waterproof labels I now have absolutely no idea which one is which.

i agree aidy they do taste better when bantam egg size thats lovelly but ive eaten mine allready i had a few in the greenhouse planted about the end of august.