Potato planting 2018

Sonoftheheir

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Arable Farmer
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West Suffolk
This secondary growth thing is a bit of a worry, this potato was on a root in the middle of the field
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And these have been irrigated every week. It was dry as a bone though.

@Fubar did you fazor yours?
 

Hindsight

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Lincolnshire
This secondary growth thing is a bit of a worry, this potato was on a root in the middle of the field
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And these have been irrigated every week. It was dry as a bone though.

@Fubar did you fazor yours?

Looks OK to me. Just be thankful there are tubers worth harvesting. If you can go dig a few roots in a non irrigated crop of Piper for comparison. And these non-irrigated crops are visibly beginning to senesce. South Lincs the rain July 28-29 (20-25mm) was insufficient to maintain canopy and encourage some new growth. Prospects poor.
 

Sonoftheheir

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West Suffolk
Thanks @Hindsight , your right I should be thankful. There will be a fairly decent crop on there come harvest time. There were a few others which had smaller growths on. I fazored them this wk so maybe that will stop them a bit?

My piper are along way behind even with water. They just seem so poor compared to the new chipping varieties. I may well drop them next year. Seed and price depending!
 
Thanks @Hindsight , your right I should be thankful. There will be a fairly decent crop on there come harvest time. There were a few others which had smaller growths on. I fazored them this wk so maybe that will stop them a bit?

My piper are along way behind even with water. They just seem so poor compared to the new chipping varieties. I may well drop them next year. Seed and price depending!
You should have plenty of seed out of your own this year surely?
 

Honest john

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Fenland
Looks OK to me. Just be thankful there are tubers worth harvesting. If you can go dig a few roots in a non irrigated crop of Piper for comparison. And these non-irrigated crops are visibly beginning to senesce. South Lincs the rain July 28-29 (20-25mm) was insufficient to maintain canopy and encourage some new growth. Prospects poor.

I saw a photo today of a good crop of spuds 12 on root size not bad. BUT two/three. Regrowth. On each spud.

? Is would you kill off.
 

Fendt

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Wouldn't recommend trying to save seed from a crop treated with fazor. Doubt it would grow very well! Sprout suppressant with only anecdotal evidence that it does anything against secondary growth.
 

Honest john

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Fenland
Wouldn't recommend trying to save seed from a crop treated with fazor. Doubt it would grow very well! Sprout suppressant with only anecdotal evidence that it does anything against secondary growth.

The problem is Fazor needs to go on two weeks or more before the 2nd grown starts.
That’s why it doesn’t stop it, because we can’t get it into the tubbers early enough. IMO.
 

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