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I planted some red potatoes in March and they came up and grew and made potatoes. I planted some of the same potatoes in April, they came up and grew good but have no potatoes on the bushes.
Anybody have any ideas why? Thanks Amo
 
Did they blossom as well as the first batch? Was it different seed stock? Did you plant them in the same spot? If yes, could the something be depleted from the soil in that area from the first batch you grew?

It could have been moister soil and warmer weather from March - April this year, than it was from April - May. It was HOT here in March and April, and then was actually cold the end of April through much of May (we had wondered mid-May if we were going to freeze our tails off at our daughter's outdoor wedding... but it warmed up just enough to be real nice).
 
Amo; So much has been posted about stunt growth, rot, lack of moisture, to wet etc, Although the planting season has much to do with growing season, as does the different soil conditions for various states, Different state locations and growers methods. I'm sure Idaho is somewhat different then Wisconsin, Up Here, there were 3 different growers.Nuto, Wes-Lawn, Lapacinski( who stopped farming potatoes, now were down to just two. If folks are wondering how to grow spuds, ASK THE LOCAL BIG POTATO GROWERS who farm several Ks acres. They Know Potatoes. Don't waste time, seed, fertilizer energy with "MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRAND DAD GREW 1 acre so he was the expert yatta yatta yatta. Lapacinski grew great potatoes bought by ORIDA every year. Rotated fields every year up until government intervention,several THOUSAND ACRES WERE INVOLVED in his operation,so if I needed information on growing potatoes I would ask those folks who are expert farmers on raising spud. LOOK TO YOUR LOCAL POTATO FARMER FOR ANSWERS and don't fool with great great great great grandads formulas for success.The big growers are kind enough to give you the correct information. JMHO. LOU
 
Here is what I'm talking about. Our potato plants are about the field size plants the grower had. These are burbank russet, our first time growing this variety using the information we got from the grower. It pays to listen to the experts,you will note the small barren ground is the sweet potato's we are trying this year, they are just starting to green up and grow,after fertilizing and watering and rain helped boost them up. The first two photo's are new ground,never been any planting in that section, the next two photo's are previous garden that had been planted with corn, tomatoes. the last is the sweet potato.
The fellow that mentioned not digging them until the vines died is correct, the local (our area) sprays the vines to kill them in early Sept. to ease digging them and keeps the machinery from bundling the vines around the equipment (driveshafts on truck) when picking.
We should have enough potato's to give to the food pantry and local soup kitchens and our own consumption for the year. This batch had nothing to do with Great grandpas growing recipe,alot has changed in seed and growing techniques since the last World war.Like tha man says "The proof is in the pudding."
LOU
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My 'normal' potatoes just started coming up this morning. Quartered, 3 weeks. On a lark , we put some in back in March, 'cause they were already growing legs and getting soft- now the plants look too big for this time of year, they will probably wilt in July, be too small for our liking.... and I don't want to dig them in July. These things will grow and develop spuds at their own rate, they don't look at calendars or read booklets.... they just do what a potato is suppose to do. Personally, I don't want to deal with it till October or November. My Russian neighbors have a cow if they wilt before labor day- and they ARE true potato experts.......
 
Question. How many thousands of acres does your TRUE POTATO EXPERTS plant per year. And Oh by the way what breand are they sold under.? Some growers has a growth operatiom farms nation wide that lists all the potato growers from all the states that mass produce em. LOU.
 
It was the same bag of seed potatoes and the next 50 feet of row. Thwt were all watered by the same sprinkler, maybe they were planted when the signs in the moon were wrong, thanks for reply. Amo
 
What I'd like to know is just why that John Deere CC field cultivator in the background is painted red/silver?? They look much better green.
 
Hey Lou,

Good idea but wouldn't work around here. Lots of folks over the years have tried to go big time in the potato (and several other forms of produce) buisness around here. We even had a chip factory next county over for a short while. Ask'n any one who ever tried to go big around here and you'll get some thing along the lines of a sholder shrug and a "heck if I know." They all lost their rears and ended up buy'n feeder pigs because no one could ever grow potatoes that met market standards on a big scale. Kinda like some one in Idaho ask'n around the local coffee shop look'n for advice on how to grow tobacco.

Round here you just have to do what Granddad did or try what ever you think will work. Only vegetable folks around here have ever been able to grow year in and out on a large scale is tobacco. :)

Dave
 
Did the plants bloom? They won't start making potatoes until after they flower. If you planted them in the light of the moon, they'll probably all go to tops.
 
I cant plant potatoes until April May here.Later planted potatoes never seem to do as well.I try to plant 1000 feet of row within one week.It takes 60 days to make potatoes.Ive planted potatoes since 1950.You can get potatoes before the vines die,Ive done it when the cellar ran out.
 
The big growers around here grow chip potatoes.They use irrigation and methods the small grower dosent need.I grow old time potatoes that you cant buy in the store.I use methods passed from my mother and father and uncle.My wife dosent like Russets.They dont sell well at road side.Kennebecs and Red Gold and red Norlands are favorites here.One grower said that Russets are overwatered and over fertilized.That makes a big watery poatato with little taste.I have one row of Katahdins and 8 rows Of Kennebecs.Any one who grows one acre knows how.Thats alot of potatoes to take care of.A friend just planted his first potatoes.I gave him the seed and showed him how to plant.Big growers dont have time to do that.Some of my potatoes are sold, some given to family and friends.In any case Ive grown potatoes since 1950.
 
Dave2 said that if We wanted it to last and not break down(as Deer items does quite often) better go with a color that matches the tractor.lol. LOU,
 
Potato;s will make up without vines being dead and without flowering. Smaller size, wont be resistant to thin skin,so to have a successful bounty, spuds are planted in 2-3 week in April.
Planting by "THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON" is for music lovers and doesn't have a dam thing to do with potato production unless one tries to plant em in OCT-NOV etc.Next thing I expect to read is,"potato's wont grow unless the old dog is standing on it's hind legs with their front feet pointing in opposite directions while relieving themselves on the north end pasture post during a blizzard in July" LOU.
 
Just try and sell that story to Orida"Big watery potato" and get ready to get laughed out of town. Small growers just cant compete with potato growers who do Ks of acres yearly.Just no way to cost compete with the big growers. Trucks, multi pickers.tractors,wind rowers,fertilizer quantity,spraying(air craft spraying) bug killers,warehousing, rock pickers,keeping hands year after year, mechanics,drivers etc, the list goes on. Lots of big bucks to insure a favorable harvest. Not talking small road stand produce sellers. A couple of acres of potato's HARDLY MAKES FOR EXPERT ADVICE!!!!.If thats the necessary criteria for selling , maybe we can sell our little patch to Orida, LOL.
LOU.
 
Dave. Any things possible with a UN-LIMITED bank account, stubbornness to not admit defeat.growing spuds in the Antarctic etc.Like the MAN SAID," A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED" Now for Tobacco, I do Smoke and so tired of wood patches inserted in cigarettes to stop burning unless one has the propensity to change into a vacuum cleaner. lol.
LOU.
 
LOL!! I get a kick out this forum! Let's see... I think he said "the people's Petrograd polytechnic of precision progressive potato production and proliferation"....
I wouldn't say he is an expert... how does it go? An ex is a has been, a spert is a drip under pressure?
So people in New England- say Maine- with now soaked to the bone land, they are going to ask adivce from.. 'Idaho potato experts' who have irrigated lazer flat fields with an entirely different climate and soil? Sounds like a plan.....
 
Yep, the folks around here who have tried potatoes (and other forms of produce) on a large scale just gave up before they spent enough money! Some of them even ran through enough money the state gave up on prop'n them up.

:)

Dave
 
Here are some of the "EXPERTS" growers that would be near to your location for asking potato related subjects that Mas folks could ask. Not IDAHO. Mich, Wisc, Penn etc. Try em you'll like em. Knowledgeable folks I would conclude. LOU.

http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farm.php?farm=1931
potato growers in Mass. as experts
 
One well known company puts some poor potatoes into their chips.Full of holes.I doubt they are that fussy.A Maine potato inspector told me that he liked Maine potatoes or those from the eastern shore.I will put a Maine grown Kennebec against any Idaho Russet or CA white.As far as I know Orida sells frozen potatoes.I dont use frozen potatoes.If I run out I buy Katahdins from a small local grower.I dont need thousands of dollars worth of equipment to plant my potatoes.I use a warren hoe, a 20 year old tiller and a potato digger I paid 4 bucks for..I dont compete with big growers.Your claim that only big growers can produce potatoes is pure BS.
 
36coup Your not I repeat Not a commercial potato grower , just a vegie road side stand farmer. Best Burbank Russet potato's make the best chips. Just ask Lays Potato chips.You will NEVER BE ABLE TO COMPETE with commercial growers with your MICKEY MOUSE EQUIPMENT so spare me the jerk kneed response with the thought of making me and the readers believe that you can produce any quantity that would satisfy any large mfg of potato products.I never mention what equipment to use, just to get information from the (his) local potato growers farm for some helpful information (ie fertilizer, what went wrong with plants, when and how to plant etc) I never said he had to compete with anyone, as I stated YOU CAN'T COMPETE WITH THEM. They have a host of information that works in their given area for their conditions period.Several thousand acres of potato's far removes the road side potato stand . I stand by my post saying only big potato producers can out produce (with profit) any little patch spud producer who can only produce a very small amount of potato's to satisfy the manufacture needs for their potato products. You just can't sell your B.S.here with folks who are aware of the vast amount of money and farm ground, machinery, fertilizer, trucks, hired help etc. it takes to satisfy the country's needs for potato products.Best get your facts straight. LOU.
 
My wife like potato chips.I got into a bag of Lays last nite.It was over 1/2 full.She saw me with the bag and said thats the worst bag of chips I ever opened.Most chips were about an inch in diameter, many were burned and had holes in them.There was a lot of breakage.I just looked into a bag of Utz chips that she had opened before finishing the Lays chips.Big difference, you can see the big potatoes were used,no burned chip or chips from damaged potatoes.Very uniform color ,some breakage on big chips.No tiny 1/2 inch bits.The Lays bag is full of tiny pieces.Make your own test, open a bag of both brands and see the difference.There no doubt that one local grower could supply all the potatoes used in this town of 1000 people.Instead potatoes are trucked from CA and ID and Canada.I dont have to compete with large growers.I plant what I can take care of and sell what I cant use my self. Fellow I know grows 3 acres every year.When its time to dig he calls a list of customer who come and pick their own.Another grower plants one acre every year and has been doing it for as long as I can remember.You are full of it with your big grower rant.
 
Evidently. your wife got the bags mixed up. Lays Potato Chips are Burbank Russerts and they beat other chip Producers hands down. Never had a problem with Lays. Number 1 seller Nation wide. I still claim you CAN"T COMPETE WITH BIG POTATO PRODUCERS EVER. ! or 2 acres is just a drop in the bucket for Commercial growers. Road side veggie stands aren't even close. Let me know if Orida, e.t.a.stop by your rinky dink stand and offer to buy your spuds .HE HE HE HE Never happen . Your a joke . LOU.
 
No mixup on the bags.Open a bag of Lays and a bag of Utz.You dont have to take any chips out of the bag.Just look inside and see the difference.I can call a grower that supplies Lays tomorrow morning.Russets make a dark chip and a dark french fry.Any one on this forum can buy the two brands and see the difference in chip quality.Ill say it again.I dont compete with big producers.I just grow a better tasting potato.
 
BETTER TASTING POTATO THEN who?Now that yours is a better tasting potato, Look out!!! Lays will be knocking on your door begging you to supply their company with your better tasting Spud. YEA RIGHTTTTTTTT! UTZ is small POTATOES compared to Lays, OLD DUTCH etc.What about Pringles?? world wide product, beats your RINKY DINK ROAD SIDE STAND SALES.!!!!!Like the saying goes, (substitute the word Mouse trap and use potato) Grow a better potato and the Big company's will beat a path to your door" What a Load of B.s. Save it for the potato plants. Just wont sell here!!!!! Put the letter "P" for Pennsylvania in front of utz (like the people who eat em) Says Volumes. If those PUTZ spuds is so great, why aren't they in world wide distribution? Cant get em here,Thank The distributors who keep the market clean from fly by night products from hitting the industry. Folks who read your replies knows just how foolish you sound. Now wondering if you sell to "PUTZ" from your road side rinky dink stand? If UTZ potato chips are so great, have em open a market in Wisc.Even they can't compete with mega Manufacture,s/growers. They must rely on other products ,i.e pretzels etc to keep their doors open. Must be their MARKET SHARE in the Mfg of potato chip sales has to be minute ,compared to Lays, Pringles, and Old Dutch . LOU.
 
Utz is the original potato chip maker.I dont know why you have to make fun of the name.But you are running your mouth pretty bad.I dont care how big a company is, they still turn out bad products.A few companies use Russets to make chips.It will say Russets on the bag.Russets are known to make a poor chip.They always look burnt.Russets take a long time to grow and they tend to break up when cooked.They have an ugly skin.I grew a row last year, wont do it again.I have grown a Norkota Russet in the past.You cant seem to understand that I plant 1000 feet of row, did 2000 feet when I was younger.One Maine co that sells seed potatoes says in the catalog to avoid growing the Russets in Maine.
 
Did a search on the Utz Co.Fouded in Nov 1921 by William and Salie Utz.They started making 50 pounds of chips per hour.The Utz company is managed by their grandson.The factory covers 14 acres and employs 1300 people.Utz ships product to 24 east coast states.The factory makes 1 million pounds of chips every every week plus the same amount of pretzels and other snack foods.They provide mail order service to the rest of the US so even Lou can order out a bag of good chips and see what real good chips look and taste like.Ignorance is bliss Lou.I notice my wife has been buying Utz chips since they started selling in Maine.Other brands were bought only when the store did not handle Utz brand.
 
Your right,"ignorance is bliss" I now know that you are such a blissful person, if you think for one minute that any one with average intelligence will swallow your line of hog wash.If you think that making one million pounds of chips per week,try 10 million pounds per day for WORLD WIDE DISTRIBUTION.If putz chips were so great,there would be no need for Orida,Lays Old Dutch, Pringles. Your in a leaky boat all by your self ,with the exception of your wife, who can see potato chips through a bag with out opening em. X-Ray Vision??? Aw Come on, Your a joke trying to fool any one when it comes to Potato Chips. " LAYS. Bet you cant eat just one"
Lays has the market share on Great potato Chips ,plus you don't have to write em for their chips to be mailed to you. What A joke. Like I've said. GET REAL. The harder you try, the more FOOLISH you writings become. LOU
 
Russets are known to make a great chip, here is some info on them, so you wife wont have to use her xray vision to peer inside the sealed package. read this and learn.

There were other chip manufacturers before P-UTZ came along.
The reason most people dont want to grow Russet Burbanks it takes some intelligence to keep up on the plant problems,so they try other potato plants that have easier growing conditions and less blight problems, it just don't taste like a potato,but to each his own.
LOU



http://www.all-about-potatoes.com/which-variety-of-potato-is-best-for-chips.html
link here
 
Your showing your stupid again.Wife opened the Lays bag,took a look at the bum chips and opened the Utz bag.I wondered why both bags had been opened.Easy to see when I looked at the chips.Just went over to the corner store for a bottle of of beer and some chips.Big empty space where the Utz chips had been sold out.There were plenty of Lays, Wise, Humpty Dumpty and Cape Cod chips.Can you get that thru you bone head.I didnt buy any chips.I gave the Lays Chips to my chickens.You dont have to write Utz to get their chips.They have a store and sell thru the internet.Lays is owned By PepsiCo.CEO of Pepsi is a woman from India.Utz is a family owned company.
 
MA land is too high price to grow potatoes,Swampy wood land goes for 30 K per acre.Rhode Island used to have some potato land no more.
 
Saying goes,"Cant cure Stupid" you make the case for that saying. Now let me get this straight,"Wife opened the Lays bag,took a look at the bum chips and opened the Utz bag.I wondered why both bags had been opened.Easy to see when I looked at the chips"I thought you didn't spend money of any other chip then "PUTZ?
Now I can see why your absolutely wrong. Your Beer brain is getting facts backward.You claim you didn't buy any chips and you gave the lays to your scrawny lousy chickens.Which one stoled em ? The chickens? You just gotta keep your nose out of the suds for a while or else folks will try and have you committed. Seems like your always in the "STORE" buying putz, and making comparisons with Lays and Putz. Didn't you know drunks have little taste for food? Guess you don't like lady Ceo's and again you spout the praises of the putz Lady CEO. See what alcohol does to the brain?? What does that have to do with the great taste of Lays? Try drinking coffee before running your mouth on comparison of Chips. Pepsi owned Lays for years, and that product is world wide. HeYYYYYYYYYY, Drink Pepsi instead of BEER.Are you a friend of Bill W's? Time is running out so it"s best to get with the program before it's to late. Sounds like your ON THE EDGE.Just remember the slogan of Lays. "Bet you can't eat just one" You didn't read the potato information on Potato's at all did you? Now fess up. How many beers did you consume before TRYING to read what I sent? Russet makes for one fine potato chip. LOU
 
Your writing proves you aint wrapped too tight.You twist every thing you read and repeat it to your adavantage.
 
B.S ers and liars just cant hold up to the truth. Just sober up before trying to convince folks of your line of B.S. I'll just bet your the president of your local fibers club. We all know your the one who is slightly warped . 2 bricks shy of a load,several pages missing from the book of truth. You have Been sniffing to many bad bags of putz spuds. LOU.
 
Did a search.There are just 5 companies that use Russets for chips.One of them uses russets,blue and a white patato in a mix.Lays does not cook Russet chips.Look at Taquitos.net to see the facts about chips.Bussets make a brown burnt looking chip.Saw some russet potatoes today.They look dirty even after they have been washed.Lays regular chip were reviewed as greasy.Go look for yourself.Taquitos.net.A potato farm North of me grows 1300 acres of potatoes.They grow for Lays.Chip potatoes have numbers ,not names.They do not grow Russets.They have 3000 acres total.They grow corn and small grains,NO Russets are grown for Lays.....
 
I spent Sunday afternoon tilling corn and potatoes.I bought a 40 oz beer,drank a pint and put the rest in the refridgerator.Hadly a lot of beer.I guess you think every one who has a beer after an afternoon working in the hot sun is a drunk.Lou ,you are a half wit.
 
Better then being a NITWIT LIKE YOU!! Any moron who drinks beer in the hot sun isn't all there. My last word to you is YOUR A PATHETIC LOOSER ,FULL OF BULL SH__! Bet your pint equals the English PuB's Volume. While you still have any brain cells alive, best eat Lays Potato Chips And drink a Soda. Beer is destroying your credability,rational thought, and TRUTH. GET A LIFE LOOSER!!!!
LOU
 
Again you read it wrong dummy.Beer is for when the work is done.We all know that.You are going ape Lou.Lou is a girls name.
 
Wrong again.Girls don't grow potatoes like ours. see pictures of our plants. This Lou has a giant pair of cajones, just ask your other half!She Knows.Cant get enough of Lou's spuds aka lay's.From your ramblings you must guzzle beer all the day long to have such a screwed up mental capacity.I just consider you have a pea brain.pea brain! Again You are the most pathetic loser I have ever read, with a lost soul on the hwy of beer and putz.So you must be ashamed to tell us your name.Your post is getting boring and worthless and to be perfectly frank, Yours sucks.My suggestion to you is GET A LIFE PHONY!
Continue to amaze your friends with your un-limitless aray of bull SH--ramblings. Good By LOOSER. Big cajone LOU. (Man of the hour).
 
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