Spud help?

ok well i'm still very new to growing things and going back a few months i found a potato behind my microwave that got when shopping and i planted it.. its all grown up now but it has some weird seed pod lookding things on it.. like little tomatoes lol what are they? should i cut them off? can i eat them? if they are seeds can i grow them? its the first time i've grown them so i dont know anything about them.. i'm not even sure when i can dig them up.. any ideas would be good :D thanks

 

Don't eat anything from the potato plant except poatoes. The rest of the plant will make your tummy very very unhappy!
I have never seen the fruit of the potato, but since it is in the same broad family with matoes (solanaceae) they could very well be similar. Idon't know if cutting ot leaving them makes a difference to the crop.

 

if there are seeds in there could i grow them?

 

Well, you can try. Most probably, you will have a somewhat different plant from the original, and no guarantee that the tatoes are as good. But experimenting with seeds is always fun

 

i dont want to sound dumb but how could i potato grow from a little seed like that? i thought you got a potato from planting a potato? :confused:

 

oh so i wouldnt get a potato from it.. hmmm what would i get from it?

 

My advice.....just chuck the dam thing away.

If you wanna grow veg or whatever, purchase the seeds or plants or seed potatoes...............I'm sorry but this seems like a windup to me.

I apologize if its not, but you are wasting peoples time asking daft questions like this one.

As for finding a potato behind your microwave....pull the other one. Or tidy up your kitchen daily.

 

Zeviel. Any plant (or even anything living) can be propagated by either of two ways. By seed (ie sexual reproduction) or by a clone (non sexual reproduction). Seed often gives you a somewhat variable result, but a clone will give you something identical. Clones in plants are usually called cuttings, usually bits of stem that have growing points.

A potatoe is no different. You can grow them from seed, which you appear to have, but the result will be somewhat variable, or you can grow them from a cutting. It may be a surprise to some, but a potatoe is simply a cutting. A potatoe is a bit of stem (yes, a bit of swollen underground stem - its not a bit of root) which has growing points.

 

Tweaky did a wasp sting your bum? I think you wasted more time typing your reply than reading the original question, if you don't feel like answering leave the thread, it's as easy as that. Or suggest a good gardening book, which is even better. To this day I believe "The well tempered Garden" By C. Lloyd must be the most completeandenjoyable practical guide I ever read.

Zeviel, my cats rolled tatoes and onions in some really improbable places, and no I don't hunt for lost tubers and bulbs every day, so the odd leafy veggie is not a new thing to me

Strange as it may sound yes a potato can come from a seed, but I would not do that in the spirit of producing food. FOr that there are more practical ways (yes, you plant a potato, you get more of the same, near miracoulous, eh? ). I would only sow it as a curiosity.

 

Actually yes...if you have been reading my posts.:D

And with respect, I really don't require being advised to post or not to post. Plus, I can type at over a 100 words per minute...so its about on a par with my reading..or even faster.

 

just so you know its not a wind up, we keep out spuds in a little bowl on top of our microwave and one must have been rolled off by the cat (who likes to sleep behind it)

well i thought i would dig it up just to see if i had got anything! and i got 10 potatoes!! :D ok i would have got more if i used more and better potatoes. but i've not grown them before..
and if you dont believe me i have the photo's to show it!!

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j137/__i_love_jimmy__/firstveg002.jpg is the potatoes i got! i took them to my mums and we ate them, they were lovely.. ok not as many as i would have liked but from one potato i thought it was good.. and it was my first ever time of growing them.. i kept the little green things to just see what i get..
i find it really sad that you just jumped right in there and called me a liar! you know there is a person on the other end of the screen! :(

 

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j137/__i_love_jimmy__/biketomatoes002.jpg
and thats a photo of my tomatoes but as you can see in the back there are my potatoes!!

 

I don't recall calling you a 'liar.'

But if you feel the need....then, let me apologize again, as this wasn't a wind up. I am sorry if I caused you any upset and would be grateful, if 'your' amenable put this behind us.:thumb:

We do get the odd person who for one reason or another likes to wind up members of forums will silly questions. At the time of writing...yours seemed to be along those lines.

That's my only defense in this case....I'm glad that you are not one of those kind of people. Yeah.

 

Hi folks. I SEEM to remember someone saying (on tv) that you CAN produce potatoes from seed. My guess is that you would probably sow them in early spring (maybe Jan/Feb) and pot them on as any other plant before planting out, maybe around May ? I would be inclined to think though that the results wouldn't be great as aforementioned. Cheers...freddy. PS NO fighting !

 

well i still have the seed pods on my kitchen side and i am going to give it a shot, i wont know if i dont try :P thanks for the info freddy :D