It wasn’t my intention, but here it is. Still too frosty to plant outside but it’s getting bigger every day.

This also isn’t the best pot to have used for transplanting, I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.

Advice is welcome. No I won’t eat this potato, because it’s raw.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Been a while since I kept a garden but if I remember right you have to keep piling dirt on top (after transplanting of course). I put mine in the ground then set a cardboard box around it, adding dirt inside the box as it grew. The dirt needs to be loaded and loose for the potatoes to grow. Maybe this method was just to make harvesting easier. I recall something about the potatoes being toxic if they grew in sunlight?

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      23 days ago

      I’m seeing elsewhere in the thread that it’s the potato fruit that’s toxic; the taters themselves remain delicious (once grown)

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      23 days ago

      Plans to see what happened with the progress of time. I definitely had no plans involving any particular expectations

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    23 days ago

    If you want to pollinate it to collect seed (debatable if that’s a good decision), use an electric toothbrush. The pollen needs the vibrations of a pollinator to be released.

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    23 days ago

    Potatoes grow without dirt, nor water , by just laying around in the fridge. You put one in the soil and “didn’t expect it to grow”? 😂

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    24 days ago

    I am curious what your intentions were for a potato that you planted that wasn’t supposed to grow?

    I ask because it might help formulate a plan if we can determine your intentions and expectations.

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        24 days ago

        This raises even more questions! Did they poo in that pot? And still, if they didn’t intend for it to grow, why did they put it in soil‽

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          24 days ago

          I saw a picture of a potato Eldrich horror (posted elsewhere in this thread) and figured I should give the potato a home

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    24 days ago

    It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside

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    24 days ago

    Potatoes form underground but they can also flower and make fruit. The fruit looks like a little tomato. My advice is to not eat the fruit; it is toxic.

    Also, it needs a way bigger pot to make more potatoes.

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    Also don’t plant any of the seeds these flowers may make. They could be poisonous.

    Potatoes (and tomatoes, and I think eggplants) are nightshades, and we grow them by sticking them in the ground because new offshoots are clones.

    Keep it as a flower, though, its neat.

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    23 days ago

    Get a 5 gallon bucket, put a few inches of dirt in the bottom, and transplant your potato plant into it. When there is no chance of frost, stick it outside in a sunny spot. As it grows higher, keep adding more soil, until it reaches the top.

    In the fall, when it starts getting cool, dump it out and sift through the dirt for the spuds.

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    24 days ago

    You arent aware how best vegetable aggressively grows, with or without your help?

    Goddamn eldritch horror, but don’t worry. I still manage to kill them somehow. Like othera have said, you’re gonna need to cover it in soil.

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    I’m not a potatologist, but it seems like it should be fine to let it grow in there for a couple more weeks. It’s happy there, and that’s the main thing.

    Then transplant it to a big bin/pot/raised bed or the ground outside. If it’s root bound just cut down on the sides of the root tangle and detangle them a bit before planting. Put a big clear plastic tub/tote over it at night if it will be frosty.