Potato flowers

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    brookhouse Apprentice Gardener

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    On GQT yesterday it was suggested that the flowers of potatoes should be removed in order to prevent them setting.

    I can understand that, but only a couple of our potato plants seem to be showing any flowers.

    If we pull those flowers off we wont know which ones we need to pull up as I understand that you should pull the potatoes a couple of weeks after you have removed the flowers.

    And what of the potatoes that haven't flowered??

    Sorry to ask dump questions.

    Susanna
     
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    brookhouse Apprentice Gardener

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    dumb questions

    sorry
     
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    Not dumb questions at all :thumb:

    Don't bother wasting your time pulling off potato flowers Susanna - it hardly makes any difference at all. If you only have a few plants then maybe remove any fruit once the flowers set.

    Not every potato plant flowers, it varies from year to year and between varities. If your's are flowering now then wait a couple of weeks and then carefully scoop some of the earth away around one plant, if you have decent sized tubers then you can dig it up. Only dig up what you need, the other plants continue grwoing and getting bigger the longer you leave them.
     
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