Information and discussion for successfully cultivating potatoes, the world's fourth largest crop.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Warsaw, Poland 52° N
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Is it common, that there is only one potato on each plant started from TPS, or did it just happen by chance?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: MA
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In my TPS plant experiment I found 3-5 marble size tubers, one had 3 of decent size around 2 by 3 inches, one plant only 1 tuber. I though maybe I did not hill them enough to reach their full potential.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Mid-Ohio
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No I don't think that is normal. I got at least a few from each plant. Only one didn't produce any. Even the seedlings I left to die in pots usualy had more than one tuber.
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Tomatovillian™
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I am glad you brought that thread here, I learned a few things for my next TPS attempt.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2009
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After reading the responses in this thread I raked the soil where my lone TPS plant used to be once more and found another tuber slightly smaller than the first one. They will both be used as seed potatoes in spring, and are of course identical (clones). I cannot tell, if there are mini-tubers left, but if there are and they survive the winter, they will appear as volunteers next year.
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