Fertilize and prune your potatoes crop 

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Thanks for watching. Absolutely, micro nutrients are very important for a truly healthy crop. Thanks for sharing this.

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I planted taters where an old compost pile had been and some in a rotting straw pile. We will see how that works. I did get them in late so may not get any! Havagudun gardener.

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Rabbit manure is one of the best manures if not the best. It won't burn plants so dosen't need aging like say horse or chicken manure.

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Thanks for watching. The reasoning is that the tubers store nutrients for the potato plant. any nutrition not going to the flower and the small fruit it is producing will go into storage, and the tuber. I know this would not be practical on a large scale, but could help produce a larger potato. I'm sure you have a lot of insight to growing potatoes anything you could share would be great. Thanks for watching and for your comment have a blessed day.

@@williefarmshomestead For the enthusiasts, I breed new potato varieties on a small scale. I show this every week in a short video.

@@williefarmshomestead I can also say, the chlorophyll of the flower stems and the flowers help to grow the tubers. After all, the tuber growth will have to come from the assimilation of the plant. I have no evidence for either claim. In any case, good to be busy with potatoes.

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The soil you bought would have had a certain amount of nutrients in it. If you continue to use the same soil over time without adding fertilizer or compost to it, it will get depleted (from the plants absorbing the nutrients) and your future yields will be less. I say this from experience.

Sounds great ...hope my potatoes do as well as your did

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The flowers don't need to be there for suds to form, they only will produce a fruit above ground.

I would not prune them. If the plants are healthy and not ready to mature ( 90-160 days depending on the variety ) You can hill them up by adding soil to the base of the plants to support and cover any tubers. You can also support them like you would tomatoes, be careful not to damage the forming potatoes. Hope this helps you. Thank you very much for watching and thank you for the comment. God bless.

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Thanks for watching and sending in and taking time to send is a comment. When I was young we did not clip the flowers, and had plenty of potatoes. I have researched the trimming of the flowers, and it does make sense that the energy not putting into creating the flowers and the fruit will go into the actual potato. Potatoes will not always produce flowers, not sure why. But trimming the flowers off the potato stalks on a large scale is probably not going to be feasible or practical. Thanks again.

I wouldn't use pig manure in any form in the vegetable garden, for root crops I would use only composted cow, horse, rabbit or chicken manures. Rabbit is considered a cold manure but can contain E coil bacteria. Tomatoes will do great with rabbit droppings fresh or composted cow, horse or chicken. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching God bless.

Thanks for watching. Yes they do produce a seed, I am wanting to hear from you about what happens with those seeds you got. Sounds like an interesting project. I know they will produce a potato plant, but would like to know what % germinate and how they develop. Thanks again, God bless.

I’m also very interested in your results! I would imagine they would be much slower to germinate and get going due to the small amount of energy that seed has compared to a whole potato. Depending on your zone, you may have time for another potato crop before it freezes again!!

@@YoooItsRex I am in Florida and should be able to replant again in August. Although I am expecting a pretty good harvest today or tomorrow. So, I may not need to plant again until Feb. I am also interested in producing my own seed potatoes. When I do replant I will plant one container using the Potatoes seeds that I harvested, but like you said, I will probably continue to use seed potatoes for the rest, as they will sprout much faster and probably produce a hole lot more then from seed. I have 4 - 10gal containers with Rustic Red Potatoes and 4 - 10Gal containers with Yukon Gold. The Yukon Golds are the ones that actually produced flowers and the seeds, that I will be using.

I heard from David the Good that you can plant those and produce potatoes

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All I would trim would be the blooms. All the leaves are needed to soak up the sun and release CO2. Thanks for watching. God bless.

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Could be several causes. A fungal or bacteria, too much water or lack of water, low magnesium or heat stress. Being the lower leaves, I don't think it is heat. You will know if it is a moisture problem. I would say a fungal or bacteria. Is it just yellow or does it have spots, black or brown?

@@williefarmshomestead just yellow. I was watering too much. But we are in a drought and I have watered much since. The soil on top is dry but dig down it cooler but still kinda dry

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@@williefarmshomestead I'll do that.

I collected mine last year but never planted them. There is a process to extracting the seeds which invloves fermenting them to break down a membrane that prevents sprouting. Also, potatoes from seed might not be the same as the plants it came from. Look up "True potato seed" You will need more growing time than starting from seed potatoes.

@@Wildwwill Thanks for the tips! I will look into that more.

A fungicide that contains copper. Remove all infected foliage, Do not compost them. If stems are infected cut off at ground. You do not want the blight in the soil.

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I am sorry to hear that. Could be a number of things it most likely is a bacteria at work, like blackleg, a slimy black material around the base of the stem down to the potato or other bacteria. The soil may not drain well or is over watered. Make sure you get a certified disease-free seed potato, make sure soil drains well. I would not replant them in that spot for a couple of seasons if possible. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching God bless.

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What's your zone and average last frost date?

Potatoes are kind of finicky, if you plant too early cold weather will kill or stunt them, too late won't make potatoes or few. Potatoes needs temps at least 48 deg to grow high temps will stop them. So the trick is timing. Take your seed potatoes and let them start to green up for 3-4 weeks, in warm conditions (above 45) and get some sun or artificial light. Spray to keep moist. A day or so before you plant, cut your potatoes and let them scab over a day or two. Hope this helps. Thank you for your question and for watching.

@@williefarmshomestead I am zone 7 we are 30 miles south of Nashville TN.

@@williefarmshomestead My grandfather use to say, potatoes are tricky if you don't do them right you won't get many new potatoes, he lived 100 mile east of St Louis in Southern IL his soil was sandy and he got a 10 min hard rain every evening about 5 pm. My TN soil is hard lots of clay but I had truck load of ground up dead tree leaves from the recycle center my soil looks like potting soil but 100° f temperatures cooks my good coil away to clay again. TN is hot desert 1 or 2 small rains every month June to Oct. I tried irrigation black plastic tubing this year it did not help I still only get 1 lb of new potatoes from each 1 eye plant. This year I planted cutting closer 6" spacing that produce more potatoes per row but still only 1 lb of new potatoes from each plant. I used 6-12-12 fertilizer this year. I planted 120 cuttings and harvested 120 lbs of new potatoes. My grandfather would plant about 100 cuttings and we cut up 7 wheel barrels of potatoes about 400 lbs every summer. I planted Red Norland potatoes and Kennebec this year. Red Pontiac potatoes grow best in TN they love our hot weather I sometimes get 2 to 3 lbs of new potatoes but wife does not like red potatoes they don't cook well and don't taste the same as white potatoes. My grandfather hilled up potatoes but he did shovel soil on the plants about 2 times a week. He planted about 4 rows of cuttings side by side in a wide bed about 40 ft long. I have been growing potatoes 45 years and still can not get a large crop of potatoes like my grand father did. I might grow Kennebec potatoes 1 more time this spring 1 row 35 ft long. I have no luck with Russets most of the time there are no new potatoes.

​@garyweaver317 I plant mine around Saint Patrick's day or Good Friday. I use 10 10 10 or whatever all purpose fertilizer on hand, bone meal, a very little bit of sulfur and rock dust if I have it. I water with fish fertilizer a few times the first month only, then I do an asprin per gallon of water once. The rest of the season, I do another application of fine bone meal after 6 or 7 weeks. Then I only water, except for an application of moringa /worm castings tea every two weeks. Always a bumper crop.

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That's okay, I understand. When I was younger we grew potatoes we didn't cut the flowers off and we had plenty of potatoes, but in the small area I have I'm going to do this to help increase the total weight of potatoes I get, at least that's the hope. Thanks for watching God bless.

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Thanks for watching. God bless. You are correct, technically it is not a root crop.

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I like to follow nature when I can. If nature does not remove the flowers why should I? I’m inclined to leave the flowers alone.

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@@smhollanshead using your logic you wouldn't water or fertilize your garden then either if nature doesn't do it right?

@@backroadsusa6915 but nature does fertilize and water the garden. Leaves fall to the ground and makes compost. Water falls from the sky. It’s called rain. I’m surprised you aren’t aware of these things. 🤔🤔🤔

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I have done my research on this. Thanks for watching. God bless.