I put this aside when there was only two eyes, thinking more would develop elsewhere. Obviously, I was wrong. Can I plant these and encourage eye growth elsewhere, or will that cause rot? I know the eye needs a chunk of potato in the ground with it.
Please tell me I got the term "potato eye" right. If not, I'll edit.
by Snoo_89200
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You usually don’t want more than 2-3 eyes on a seed potato. 3ozs is the perfect weight of a seed potato. I can’t tell how many eyes yours has. If it’s a heavy potato…you can carefully cut it into 2 pieces with 2-3 eye sprouts each. But I would limit your eye sprouts to 2-3 for each piece. Your seed won’t have enough energy to sprout more than 2-3 eyes. If the potato is 3ozs or less…I would pick the 2-3 best eye sprouts and remove the rest.
Removed sprouts without the potato can’t grow. Think of the seed potato as kind of a yolk for a baby chick. That yolk/seed feeds the chick/plant until it dissolves and is able to feed itself. If you remove the eye sprout and it doesn’t have a piece of potato to feed it…it won’t grow.
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