Potato Test Box
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TestBox 25 April 2009 Potato Test Box
A test to determine if potatoes grow from the stem of the plant. The box makes hilling relatively easy. At the end of the season the boards will be removed carefully, starting from the top and the actions photographed. One potato, Red Pontiac, was chosen. The potato is hilled daily, and will be continued until blossoms start to form.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?PotatoU 27 May 2009 Potato Test Box
Pictures depicting growth and hilling procedure.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TESTP 2 June 2009 Another four inch board added to the box and the potato hilled.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TestBoxP 7 June 2009 Test Potato Box
Another four inch board added to the height.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?EIFPD 17 August 2009 Potato Test Box
The seed potato is about six inches below the bottom of the box. The plant was carefully hilled often as the stalk grew. Hilling ceased when the flowers started to form. According to some there should be potatoes along stolens growing all along the stem. Experience has indicated that this is simply not the case. It will be a few weeks before the upper boards are removed and pictures supplied at each removal.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZELNG 21 August 2009 How a Potato Plant Grows
Potato growing test box was opened today. The pictures literally speak for themselves. Clearly there is no advantage in carrying out excessive hilling when growing potatoes. The purpose of hlling is to insure the tubers are covered. For comparison one Pontiac Red was dug in the same row, which was almost identical to the test box potato in appearance.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?PotatoS Summary: Potato Test Box
posted by Durgan @ 2:18 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
From what I have heard the only varieties that will produce more clutched up the stem are late season varieties. Your red pontiac is a mid season so it may or may not produce more clutchs for you.
I am trying a bin for the first time this year and am hoping for an increased yield. I am not all that hopeful though.
When somebody shows me pictures well documented of new potato tubers growing along the stem, I will start believing in the gods. The potato can be early, mid or late, I am easy to convince.
Hi brother Durgan,
This is my first year growing potatoes,so I googled how to,and my research led me to your site,I planted little red potatoes from the grocery store (I had forgotten them, and they got pushed to the back of the cabinet,when i found them they had tons of sprouts coming out of the eyes,so I just took them and planted them whole,mine have already flowered,berried and started to wilt,so I have been pulling up a plant per week (fifteen potatoes per seed),and have been documenting the potatoes growing out of the stem (away from the seed),how can I post a video or a pic for you to observe.
Send me the pictures to durgan@sympatico.ca and I will study.
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