When learning how to grow potatoes, you’ll hear about “seed potatoes” and you might wonder what they are. Unlike many other plants, we grow our potatoes from…other potatoes!
However, there’s a process that our seed potatoes need to undergo to make sure they have the best chance of survival. This is what we’re talking about in today’s video.
I bought some seed potatoes from Urban Farmer Seeds (Russet, All Red, and All Blue varieties) and am going to talk you through chitting, cutting, and drying your seed potatoes, as well as the basic anatomy and structure of a potato.
Hopefully after this video you have a full understanding of how to prepare your potatoes for planting!
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But where do you put them to dry out? In shade etc
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Ok, but how long to you let them dry out?
Nice video! Please consider making your seed pieces a bit larger: 1.5 to 2 ounces seems to be an ideal size. Another consideration is that the seed piece needs to use additional energy to heal every cut face so there is no advantage to cutting away the extra material. The rot you mention is much more likely to come in through the cut face than the area with the intact skin.
My family tried to plant some potatoes (partly for a school project), and… well, the plants themselves grew fairly well, but the yield was… underwhelming (all tiny little things– to be fair, I'm sure possums dug up the big ones). All we heard was, "just cut up the potatoes and chuck them in the ground". I'm sure we would've found the proper method if we found the right book in the right library or something (this was back in 1990 ish, so no widely-available Internet), but the experience was enough to put us off for a long time.
You've given me some great tips here that I'll put to good use when we find some spuds with eyes on 'em.
Thank you for the info!!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Wow!!! That’s pretty awesome! Ok I get it!
This is so helpful thanks!! How long does it take to scab over?
How long do you let the cut potatoes dry before planting?
I am new to this, why can’t we use store bought potatoes?
I want to grow blue potatoes! What are they called? How do they taste?
LOVE POTATO VIDEOS!!! ♥️♥️♥️
Great info! Thank you!
Only video on watched to get started. Only one needed. Thanks!
My first time planting potatoes and glad u had this video, thanks
How long should they dry out for and should they be in direct sunlight or not??
Another great video, thank you! Do you know if I could immediately re-plant my early potatoes for a second harvest? Or do they need to go Dormant first?
Great job!!! That helped me a lot!!!!
Any other recommended sellers for seeds? They are all sold out at UF Seeds.
Dude thank you. This was helpful.
You've gotta be chitting me. I keep buying potatoes at the store. No more!
These vids of yours that I've been watching lately have been very helpful (because I know NOTHING about gardening!). I'm thinking I want to try this 'potatoes-in-a-bucket' thing you've got going here. Looks hell easy, and sounds like you can get a pretty good return on the investment.
I'm up in the Seattle area, so I don't have the growing season you've got down there in S.D….but I COULD maybe build myself a 'grow tube' or cold frames to extend my season.
I just tried planting the cut ends from scallions a couple days ago…and I've got my first onion shoot coming up today!
Oh, and…I subscribed too.
Thank you for putting the links in the comment section!!!
Can you grow potatoes indoors under grow lights?
Very interesting to see. I got some seed potatoes back in march and and ended up just putting them in the ground whole and the amount of potatoes we harvested was very sad. Im curios if putting them in whole was the absolute wrong move. Do you need to cut them up?
which sunnies are thodse?
Any idea if I can speed this scabbing over process up a little by giving my seed potatoes a couple hours at the spa (in a dehydrator)? Sounds to me like it might work…