Growing potatoes in containers
Before you start you should know their growth stages.
The illustration below outlines the growth patterns of a determinate potato.
Please read the phases below.
The illustration below outlines the growth patterns of a determinate potato.
Please read the phases below.
Stage I Sprout developmentSprout develops from eyes on seed tubers and grows upward to emerge from the soil. Roots begin to develop at the base of emerging sprouts.
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Stage II Vegetative growthLeaves and brunch stems develop from aboveground nodes along emerged sprouts. Roots and stolons develop at below-ground nodes. Photosynthesis begins.
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Stage III Tuber initiation |
Stage IV Tuber bulking |
Stage V Maturation |
Tubers form at stolon tips but are not yet appreciably enlarging. In most cultivars the end of this stage coincides with early flowering.
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Tuber cells expand with the accumulation of water, nutrients, and carbohydrates. Tubers become the dominant site for deposition of carbohydrates and mobile inorganic nutrients.
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Vines turn yellow and lose leaves, photo-synthesis decreases, tuber growth slows, and vines eventually die. Tuber dry matter content reaches a maximum and tuber skins set.
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Potato VDOs
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other websites on potatoes
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http://www.haifa-group.com/knowledge_center/crop_guides/potato/general_growing_conditions/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/potato-varieties_n_1105586.html
http://www.yara.us/agriculture/crops/potato/key-facts/potato-types/
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/potatoextension/news/potatoes-101-v_2