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help! potato emergency! 0tterbot 01-05-2007
Posted by 0tterbot on January 5, 2007, 12:52 am
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 yes, i'm panicking, thank you for asking :-)

the other day, all my taties looked excellent.

as of just now(?!), there's two problems that have appeared all of a sudden:

small desiree patch:
a number of the plants are turning yellow all over, with the leaves curling
inwards & drying out. i carefully dug around to look at the baby taties of
the diseased(?) plants & the bigger ones seem to have slightly more textured
(wrinkled? what would be the word?) skin than one would expect, not smooth
like a baby spud still in the ground. others, otoh, looked quite normal to
me. i didn't dig around very much though, of course. (was that a bad thing
to do?)

big pontiac patch:
some of the plants have slight reddish-brownish areas on them, like a
sunburn or something (no defined edge to the marks - more of a shading).
these plants just look generally less well than the others, which look
perfectly normal. some of the leaves are yellowing & drying out a bit. again
i had a little dig, but couldn't see anything odd about the baby taties
underneath at all.

i've never grown potatoes before & i've looked in all my books for what it
might be, and online, and i just don't know. they've not flowered yet. one
plant has some buds. the desirees have been in for probably 3 months or
so(?) & the pontiacs perhaps two months, or 2 & a bit.



Posted by 0tterbot on January 5, 2007, 1:09 am
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> yes, i'm panicking, thank you for asking :-)
>
> the other day, all my taties looked excellent.
>
> as of just now(?!), there's two problems that have appeared all of a
> sudden:
>
> small desiree patch:
> a number of the plants are turning yellow all over, with the leaves
> curling inwards & drying out. i carefully dug around to look at the baby
> taties of the diseased(?) plants & the bigger ones seem to have slightly
> more textured (wrinkled? what would be the word?) skin than one would
> expect, not smooth > like a baby spud still in the ground. others, otoh,
> looked quite normal to me. i didn't dig around very much though, of
> course. (was that a bad thing to do?)

is it possible that they're just ready to dig up??? they never flowered!!!
kylie (who will feel like an idiot if the plants are dying because it's just
time to harvest.)



Posted by Stuart Naylor on January 5, 2007, 5:34 pm
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>> yes, i'm panicking, thank you for asking :-)
>>
>> the other day, all my taties looked excellent.
>>
>> as of just now(?!), there's two problems that have appeared all of a
>> sudden:
>>
>> small desiree patch:
>> a number of the plants are turning yellow all over, with the leaves
>> curling inwards & drying out. i carefully dug around to look at the baby
>> taties of the diseased(?) plants & the bigger ones seem to have slightly
>> more textured (wrinkled? what would be the word?) skin than one would
>> expect, not smooth > like a baby spud still in the ground. others, otoh,
>> looked quite normal to me. i didn't dig around very much though, of
>> course. (was that a bad thing to do?)
>
>is it possible that they're just ready to dig up??? they never flowered!!!
>kylie (who will feel like an idiot if the plants are dying because it's just
>time to harvest.)

I have potatoes in flower at the moment and they do usually flower
before they die off, but if you have kept the water up to them you may
have missed seeing the flowers and they might be ready to harvest.
Have a bit of a careful dig around near them and see what you can find
in the ground. Wish you luck. :)
--

Stuart


Posted by 0tterbot on January 6, 2007, 5:02 am
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>
>>> yes, i'm panicking, thank you for asking :-)
>>>
>>> the other day, all my taties looked excellent.
>>>
>>> as of just now(?!), there's two problems that have appeared all of a
>>> sudden:
>>>
>>> small desiree patch:
>>> a number of the plants are turning yellow all over, with the leaves
>>> curling inwards & drying out. i carefully dug around to look at the baby
>>> taties of the diseased(?) plants & the bigger ones seem to have slightly
>>> more textured (wrinkled? what would be the word?) skin than one would
>>> expect, not smooth > like a baby spud still in the ground. others, otoh,
>>> looked quite normal to me. i didn't dig around very much though, of
>>> course. (was that a bad thing to do?)
>>
>>is it possible that they're just ready to dig up??? they never flowered!!!
>>kylie (who will feel like an idiot if the plants are dying because it's
>>just
>>time to harvest.)
>
> I have potatoes in flower at the moment and they do usually flower
> before they die off, but if you have kept the water up to them you may
> have missed seeing the flowers and they might be ready to harvest.
> Have a bit of a careful dig around near them and see what you can find
> in the ground. Wish you luck. :)

ta for that :-)

in the absence of any replies saying "yes, it's clearly
potato-disease-from-hell", i decided to stop panicking :-) after i read your
reply i had a think, & can recall a time when some of the plants had buds.
then, i don't know what happened. it's quite possible the %#$!! grasshoppers
ate the buds off, for all i know (they are voracious little blighters - they
eat the tops off anything). i had another poke around, & there are some big
taties down there. (and some little ones). i think it might be time to
harvest soon, regardless of what happens next!
kylie (i think this means i feel like an idiot ;-)



Posted by Jonno on January 6, 2007, 5:54 am
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0tterbot wrote:
>>
>>>> yes, i'm panicking, thank you for asking :-)
>>>>
>>>> the other day, all my taties looked excellent.
>>>>
>>>> as of just now(?!), there's two problems that have appeared all of a
>>>> sudden:
>>>>
>>>> small desiree patch:
>>>> a number of the plants are turning yellow all over, with the leaves
>>>> curling inwards & drying out. i carefully dug around to look at the baby
>>>> taties of the diseased(?) plants & the bigger ones seem to have slightly
>>>> more textured (wrinkled? what would be the word?) skin than one would
>>>> expect, not smooth > like a baby spud still in the ground. others, otoh,
>>>> looked quite normal to me. i didn't dig around very much though, of
>>>> course. (was that a bad thing to do?)
>>> is it possible that they're just ready to dig up??? they never flowered!!!
>>> kylie (who will feel like an idiot if the plants are dying because it's
>>> just
>>> time to harvest.)
>> I have potatoes in flower at the moment and they do usually flower
>> before they die off, but if you have kept the water up to them you may
>> have missed seeing the flowers and they might be ready to harvest.
>> Have a bit of a careful dig around near them and see what you can find
>> in the ground. Wish you luck. :)
>
> ta for that :-)
>
> in the absence of any replies saying "yes, it's clearly
> potato-disease-from-hell", i decided to stop panicking :-) after i read your
> reply i had a think, & can recall a time when some of the plants had buds.
> then, i don't know what happened. it's quite possible the %#$!! grasshoppers
> ate the buds off, for all i know (they are voracious little blighters - they
> eat the tops off anything). i had another poke around, & there are some big
> taties down there. (and some little ones). i think it might be time to
> harvest soon, regardless of what happens next!
> kylie (i think this means i feel like an idiot ;-)
>
>
Nuh I made the same mistake once. Youre only an idiot if you do it twice.

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