Practicing various options for planting potatoes, many farmers point to the high efficiency of the method of growing vegetables with sprouts. True, there are some peculiarities here.

About potatoes

The potato is a herbal tuberous plant. It belongs to the genus Nightshade. The clubhouses themselves are specially grown for human consumption, belong to important food products and are consumed in our time in almost all countries. But the berries are poisonous and cannot be used as food, as they contain solanine. The green vegetative part of the plant is not beneficial either. Most potato varieties are prone to flowering. Their flowers appear in spring or early summer and are purple, pink or white. The tubers themselves ripen in August-September.

Important! The keeping quality of tubers depends on the type of potato.

Most of them keep well for 6 months in dry and cool rooms. In spring, when it gets warmer both outdoors and indoors, sprouts can sprout on the potatoes. Also, if desired, the owner can accelerate their appearance at any other period of time.

Potatoes for planting

Planting potatoes with sprouts

How to plant potatoes correctly: sprouts up or down

Growing a potato bush with sprouts is most often decided by those owners who have a small amount of elite planting material. This method is quite cheap, but requires more work and time.

Technology advantages

Planting potatoes with larger sprouts has many benefits, including:

  • low resource costs - about 3-5 times less than with the standard landing option;
  • the rate of breeding expensive or rare varieties (in just 1-2 seasons);
  • high yield - if you plant sprouted potatoes in accordance with the provided technologies, then the volume of the crop will not decrease;
  • restoration of the variety, because most diseases are not transmitted by sprouts.

Growing potatoes

Preparatory stage

As experienced farmers point out, potatoes can have two types of sprouts: shadow and light. The first ones grow on their own, while keeping the vegetable in a cool and dark place. As a rule, they are quite fragile, pale and thin. Planting such material is appropriate only when there is not enough planting material, and there is nothing to choose from. The second - light, can germinate at above-zero temperatures and in the light. They are more durable and thicker.

Potatoes can be grown first for seedlings, then for planting in the ground. In the latter case, about a week before the planned planting date, the container with the seed must be put on the street, that is, germinated. Every other day, the potatoes should be sprayed with clean water. From this, roots will appear on the growths.

Important! Potatoes with sprouts should not be placed in direct sunlight.

If the owner plans to grow potatoes from seedlings, then first you need to germinate them. It is worth starting the vernalization process about 35-45 days before placing the plant in the greenhouse. All club must be taken and immediately discarded damaged and rotten. The best material is stacked in layers in a box and placed in a bright room. The optimum air temperature in this case is + 15-18 ° C. The optimum humidity should be 85-93%.

Seedling

Before you think about whether it is necessary to cut off the sprouts from the planting potatoes, first you need to properly prepare the containers. Joint boxes are the best option, however, it is allowed to plant seedlings in pots. The best soil for this planting technology is coconut extract, but it can also be planted in ordinary soil.

How to grow potato seedlings

Important! The use of land for propagation of potato seedlings increases the likelihood of infection by pathological microorganisms.

The potato is planted with a rather long process (5-8 cm) with clearly distinguishable roots. Can seed potatoes break off? Yes, you can. True, this should be done as carefully as possible, closer to the base. If there is an opportunity and time, then it is better not to cut off, it is preferable to unscrew the processes. The prepared particles are placed in the soil for about 2-3 of their length. The optimal distance is 5 cm.

In the room during the entire period, you need to maintain the temperature up to 16-20 degrees Celsius. The bushes are watered periodically. Transplantation to a permanent place occurs when stable heat comes to the region, and the first leaves appear on the birches.

Spiked seedlings

Landing in the ground

Potatoes with light sprouts can be planted directly in open ground. The planting should have sprouts with a length of 5-12 cm. It is better to carry out this during a period when the air temperature remains stably high - from 10 degrees Celsius.

You need to tear off or cut off the shoots on the day of disembarkation or on the day before it. This is a necessary process to ensure the correct yield.

Important! If you pluck the sprouts faster (a week, a month before planting), then the germination of potatoes will take place 10-15 days later than the planned period.

The depth of the furrow for such a seed is 6-8 cm. The distance between the rows is 60-70 cm, between the future bushes - 15-17 cm. The club should be placed sprouts down, in a pre-moistened soil.

Planting seedlings in the ground

FAQ

Is it possible to plant frozen potatoes

Can potatoes with long white shoots be planted? Yes, you can.

Do I need to pick off potatoes before planting? This is an optional activity, some hosts do it, some do not.

What to do if the potatoes for planting have sprouted very strongly? If the planting is planned in 1-2 weeks, then, in order to stop the growth of sprouts, you need to expose the box with the material under diffused light and spray it with water from a spray bottle every day (not much). Such material should be planted in the hole carefully so as not to break the sprouts.

Strongly sprouted potatoes

Can I plant long sprouted potatoes together with potatoes without them? No you can not. Club potatoes planted next door can crush the sprouts. Thus, the tops will grow, but there will be no potatoes from such sprouts.

Vegetable diseases

Dig potatoes

Potatoes that are planted with sprouts can contract almost all of the same diseases as potatoes planted using a different technology.

So, the causative agents of potato late blight and phimosis can be contained on the tubers themselves or in the soil, and not in the sprouts. Scab develops when the soil is drought, as well as at a great depth of tubers (when there is a lack of air). The source of fusarium wilt is pathogenic microorganisms contained in the soil.

Thus, the planting technology itself does not have such a strong effect on the painfulness of the crop as the place of planting and the material itself. Therefore, it will be possible to protect the crop if you follow the advice of experienced farmers and ensure proper plant care.