I've seen people use this approach, but they start really early and plant the sprouts in small pots (e.g. solo cups) indoors so they can get established before transplanting in the spring. Never tied it myself - I tend to stick to the seed potatoes.
@@GutenGardening It's worth repeating on a larger scale: More shoots. More space. Different times of year. Perhaps even different starting depths. Your conclusion at the end of the video was correct. However, this method could be crucial in a survival situation where seed potatoes are not plentiful. Thanks again.
This was a cool experiment. Thanks for sharing. I think your experiment showed the results it did because russets are indeterminate potatoes and Yukon gold are determinate. I have tried planting over-sprouted potatoes and find they produce poorly for me; I will definitely try removing long eyes and planting shriveled seed potatoes in the future! Thanks for that tip! My experiment this year is to try spraying my fall potatoes with kaolin clay as a sunscreen. I also am trying the Clancy’s potato seeds (true potato seeds) from botanical interests. Great info about TPS at cultivariable online. Can’t link in comments anymore. If I had the space I would love trying to grow new landrace potatoes. I discovered his website while looking into oca tubers. Keep posting your potato experiments! I love learning!
Good deal. I'm getting ready to plant some sweet potato slips here. I grew nothing all summer, was busy with other things, but sure miss growing stuff!
I understand what you mean but the title is misleading, because you did use seed potatoes the get the start, you just didn't plant the potatoe, this is just a version of planting sweet potatoes. Nice video, but I clicked on this video to learn how to grow potatoes with out seed potatoes, but this is not the case.
We have another series of videos we did where we grew potatoes directly from the growing plant, meaning we took potato "suckers" off the plant and rooted those and grew a few potatoes that way. There will always have to be some part of a parent potato or plant involved, but our goal in this video was to remove the seed potato from actual planting, and that is what we meant in the title. This is one of the videos in the potato suckers series: ruclips.net/video/8puCDZoyAmA/видео.html
At least you didn't have to deal with those slimy rotten seed potatoes when you harvested! That's just not a pleasant thing to run you hands through when harvesting...
Fascinating experiment!
This was really interesting, thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for watching! We found this experiment to be very interesting as well.
Most respectable results!
Not too shabby! And, we are learning from some of the other comments why some varieties might have performed better than others.
Cool experiment…thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
I've seen people use this approach, but they start really early and plant the sprouts in small pots (e.g. solo cups) indoors so they can get established before transplanting in the spring. Never tied it myself - I tend to stick to the seed potatoes.
We kept them indoors for a few weeks until they started to green up, and then transported them outdoors, so pretty similar to what you suggested.
I'm glad that you followed up with this. Thanks.
It was such an interesting experiment. Limited results, but if we are in the same position next season, we might expand on it.
@@GutenGardening It's worth repeating on a larger scale: More shoots. More space. Different times of year. Perhaps even different starting depths.
Your conclusion at the end of the video was correct. However, this method could be crucial in a survival situation where seed potatoes are not plentiful.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the update video
Absolutely! Thank you for taking the journey with us!
That’s pretty cool. Thank you 🙏
Glad you liked it! We really enjoyed this one.
This was a cool experiment. Thanks for sharing. I think your experiment showed the results it did because russets are indeterminate potatoes and Yukon gold are determinate. I have tried planting over-sprouted potatoes and find they produce poorly for me; I will definitely try removing long eyes and planting shriveled seed potatoes in the future! Thanks for that tip! My experiment this year is to try spraying my fall potatoes with kaolin clay as a sunscreen. I also am trying the Clancy’s potato seeds (true potato seeds) from botanical interests.
Great info about TPS at cultivariable online. Can’t link in comments anymore. If I had the space I would love trying to grow new landrace potatoes.
I discovered his website while looking into oca tubers. Keep posting your potato experiments! I love learning!
Good deal. I'm getting ready to plant some sweet potato slips here. I grew nothing all summer, was busy with other things, but sure miss growing stuff!
Ann!!!! How are you! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering how things were going there.
I got one from the one I did without the seed potatoes lol😂 I tried lol
I imagine there are so many variables with this experiment. Definitely there was one variety that way outperformed the others.
@@GutenGardening yeah the one I did was an Adirondack red
I understand what you mean but the title is misleading, because you did use seed potatoes the get the start, you just didn't plant the potatoe, this is just a version of planting sweet potatoes. Nice video, but I clicked on this video to learn how to grow potatoes with out seed potatoes, but this is not the case.
We have another series of videos we did where we grew potatoes directly from the growing plant, meaning we took potato "suckers" off the plant and rooted those and grew a few potatoes that way. There will always have to be some part of a parent potato or plant involved, but our goal in this video was to remove the seed potato from actual planting, and that is what we meant in the title. This is one of the videos in the potato suckers series: ruclips.net/video/8puCDZoyAmA/видео.html
At least you didn't have to deal with those slimy rotten seed potatoes when you harvested! That's just not a pleasant thing to run you hands through when harvesting...
Ha! I have that exact feeling in my mind right now. You are right, it is pretty unpleasant.