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| Thread ID: 150494 | 2022-02-21 01:31:00 | What's wrong with my potato? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1484437 | 2022-02-21 01:31:00 | Seen this several times over the years. Potatoes with a big hole inside like a rock with a crystal formation might have. Sometimes it's pretty clean like this, other times looks as if its moldy. No outer connection either so not insects it would seem. A disease, or some bad conditions like too much water? Does anyone know? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1484438 | 2022-02-21 01:57:00 | Too much water I think. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1484439 | 2022-02-21 02:39:00 | The cracks you show are usually caused by physical conditions in the soil and climate. The growth of the potato has alternating times of good nutrition and water followed by drought and temperature changes or such environmental conditions. As zqwerty says "too much water" especially after a long dry spell | smithie 38 (6684) | ||
| 1484440 | 2022-02-21 04:21:00 | Maybe it could be used for vodka. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1484441 | 2022-02-21 04:28:00 | I grow a couple of varieties of Maori potatoes. This year year has been a failure, mostly greenery and just a few spuds, so disappointing. | bellbird (6169) | ||
| 1484442 | 2022-02-21 05:05:00 | I grew a good crop of Jersey Bennee's which we first dug on Christmas Day. They were pretty good. SWMBO tends to overwater but I have given up telling her bearing in mind the "Yes Dear" method of self defense! Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1484443 | 2022-02-22 02:19:00 | Hollow Heart This problem presents as a hollow inside a potato that otherwise looks normal, hence the name Hollow Heart. It’s caused by a dry spell checking growth of the tuber followed by a prolonged wet spell. It’s similar in some ways to blossom end rot in tomatoes in that the uneven supply of water causes problems in calcium distribution and availability. Often the internal cavity in the potato has a brown coloured surface The only prevention is to water well in dry weather. Remember that potatoes are a thirsty crop and require more water than many other crops. Splitting – cracks in potato tubers This is another problem of irregular watering. Most often the cracks or splits will have skinned over and the biggest problem will be in peeling them. I This is a problem that can be caused by lack of water as the tubers are developing but it can also be caused by virus infection or a lack of trace elements in the soil. Handy pics: ahdb.org.uk I had a potato plant. Didn't do it on purpose, peelings from within the compost. So I let it grow, I didn't water as we have soggy soil here. After a while it died off as they do and I dug up what was under it. Not expecting much. We got 2 meals out of it. Not bad size spuds actually, peeling plants normally only grow small babies....so it did well for being ignored. If it occurs despite the plants being properly watered and the crop rotated annually as it should be. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1484444 | 2022-02-22 03:45:00 | Thanks all, looks like "Hollow Heart" and "Brown Heart" (ephytia.inra.fr) are both the conditions I have noticed in several potatoes. As these were all in potatoes from the supermarket, I don't know the growing conditions. Looks like the suspicion of irregular watering is correct though. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1484445 | 2022-02-22 05:24:00 | Could be a Hoof Heart? Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
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