New (to me) chitting advice

Scrungee · Apr 4, 2017

silu said: ↑
. I rubbed out the eyes that weren't at the end of the potoatoes
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From what I've read, you may have removed the most productive eyes:

By chitting you may select the eyes and encourage good sturdy sprouts before planting to produce earlier, improved crops. Look closely at the potatoes and you should see more eyes at the rose eye - often there are three or four, sometimes five, in a cluster. On some tubers, particularly the roundish shaped types, they may be placed off centre. If these are allowed to grow they will produce mainly small tubers. Using a potato peeler remove all the eyes in the rose end cluster by scooping approximately one eighth of an inch (3mm) deep, which should eliminate any regrowth. You must make sure that you remove the whole eye to stop any regrowth. Without the rose eyes the tuber's food reserves will be directed to shoulder and side eyes. Set treated tubers with the rose eye end upwards on egg trays, thus allowing space for the sprouts to develop.[/img]
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silu · Apr 4, 2017

Scrungee said: ↑
From what I've read, you may have removed the most productive eyes:
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Oh great, I feel that well known expression of "there's always next year" is about to become appropriate!

JWK · Apr 5, 2017

silu said: ↑
Oh great, I feel that well known expression of "there's always next year" is about to become appropriate!
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I can't imagine this technique makes any measurable difference if it did then farmers would use it. My father used to grow 40 acres of maincrop and the extra work of peeling off the rose end off tons and tons of seed potatoes would have been impossible. Maybe these days seed potatoes are shipped off to china for processing and shipped back again

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