Potato planting 2018

[Sonoftheheir]

The land I've taken would be gravelly like that a bit. Works well in a wet year

Just the wrong year I guess.

I don’t know why people are hiring land without irrigation? They must be desperate for acres!

 

[ridger]

Just the wrong year I guess.

I don’t know why people are hiring land without irrigation? They must be desperate for acres!

We usually have no need for water

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We usually have no need for water

Yeah I can imagine.

But over here in the driest part of the country???

 

[Honest john]

Just the wrong year I guess.

I don’t know why people are hiring land without irrigation? They must be desperate for acres!

Well a lot of the land that's easy to water is getting tired of Potatoes, then fresh land can yield well up against tired land with water.

Then along comes 1975 1976 & now 2018.
That maybe throws a spanner in the works.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

First bit of Fazor this morning. Performer and Agria.

 

[chipchap]

First bit of Fazor this morning. Performer and Agria.

Too dry here

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Too dry here

No irrigation?

 

[chipchap]

No irrigation?

None

 

[Sonoftheheir]

None

Should get some rain this wk.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

This secondary growth thing is a bit of a worry, this potato was on a root in the middle of the field

And these have been irrigated every week. It was dry as a bone though.

@Fubar did you fazor yours?

 

[Hindsight]

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]

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!

 

[ridger]

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?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

You should have plenty of seed out of your own this year surely?

We never plant out of our previous crop. Too much disease I think.

 

[ridger]

We never plant out of our previous crop. Too much disease I think.

Should be ok if you buying decent seed

 

[Honest john]

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]

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]

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.

 

[ridger]

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.

Of courise not but don't fazor the ones your keeping the seed out of! I only fazor enough to sell in June and July

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Of courise not but don't fazor the ones your keeping the seed out of! I only fazor enough to sell in June and July

When do you take them out? At harvest?