It wasn’t my intention, but here it is. Still too frosty to plant outside but it’s getting bigger every day.
This also isn’t the best pot to have used for transplanting, I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.
Advice is welcome. No I won’t eat this potato, because it’s raw.
Been a while since I kept a garden but if I remember right you have to keep piling dirt on top (after transplanting of course). I put mine in the ground then set a cardboard box around it, adding dirt inside the box as it grew. The dirt needs to be loaded and loose for the potatoes to grow. Maybe this method was just to make harvesting easier. I recall something about the potatoes being toxic if they grew in sunlight?
I’m seeing elsewhere in the thread that it’s the potato fruit that’s toxic; the taters themselves remain delicious (once grown)
If you planted a potato expecting it not to grow, you’ve clearly never had a potato in your pantry start sprouting.
It wasn’t so much that I didn’t expect it to grow, as I had zero expectations, and so my expectations were surpassed :)
wtf do you mean, you fucking planted it xD of course it growing was your intention, unless you didn’t know that plants grow when planted, which I wouldn’t believe you even if you said it.
I mean, I barely planted it. I just tossed it into some dirt and here we are. I had no Step 2
Yeah, but I mean your intention was still “lol this is so stupid, let’s see if this shit will grow”, maybe subconsciously or something. But maybe I’m just being autistic and that’s just what you wanted to express by “lying” about your intentions, I sometimes forget that’s how people communicate.
Sorry in any case, carry on, have fun, love you :)
Yeah, potatoes don’t give a flying fuck. Literally just drop them on the ground and half ass cover them in straw and they’ll grow.
You arent aware how best vegetable aggressively grows, with or without your help?
Goddamn eldritch horror, but don’t worry. I still manage to kill them somehow. Like othera have said, you’re gonna need to cover it in soil.
LOL this pic was my inspiration
Buddy saw an incomprehensible eldritch terror covered in sightless eyes, yearning for life, stretching myriad limbs in every feasible direction and said I gotta have one
Potatoes form underground but they can also flower and make fruit. The fruit looks like a little tomato. My advice is to not eat the fruit; it is toxic.
Also, it needs a way bigger pot to make more potatoes.
Potatoes, tomatoes and nightshade are all related species, yep. Tomato is the odd one out for not having poisonous fruit.
To be more specific, potatoes and tomatoes are nightshades. Eggplants, too.
Don’t forget peppers! Hot peppers are my favorite nightshade.
mmmm, tasty toxicity, yummy!
Congratulations you have discovered agriculture
Let’s see, next I’ll build a granary, worker then settler.
Just… one… more… turn…
Go for animal husbandry first so you can see the horse resources
Potatoes are next level though. Or the most basic level. 🤷🏻
I planted a bunch of red potato chunks in some tilled dirt. BAM! Quintupled what I put in with zero effort. Next time I’ll mound them up properly and get a year’s supply off 4 or 5.
If you can grow two things it should be potatoes and pumpkins. Just about a complete protein, and they’re easy to grow and store for long periods.
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Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.
I am curious what your intentions were for a potato that you planted that wasn’t supposed to grow?
I ask because it might help formulate a plan if we can determine your intentions and expectations.
Maybe they watched The Martian and wanted to test the scientific accuracy.
This raises even more questions! Did they poo in that pot? And still, if they didn’t intend for it to grow, why did they put it in soil‽
I saw a picture of a potato Eldrich horror (posted elsewhere in this thread) and figured I should give the potato a home
A potato is much happier as vodka as indicated by common potato lifecycle charts.
Everything is potato.
Congratulations! Actions have consequences! Now you’re the proud parent of a baby potatoe plant!
Thank you! I am taking the advice of this thread and will ensure that it lives a happy and healthy long life.
Potatoes grow without dirt, nor water , by just laying around in the fridge. You put one in the soil and “didn’t expect it to grow”? 😂
Well, it’s not that I didn’t expect it to grow so much as I had zero expectations
What did you expect? Kittens? A diamond?
Omg are kittens an option? :D
You’d need to plant a kitten for that. At least that’s what I’m concluding from our very small sample size, I’m not a scientist.
Get a 5 gallon bucket, put a few inches of dirt in the bottom, and transplant your potato plant into it. When there is no chance of frost, stick it outside in a sunny spot. As it grows higher, keep adding more soil, until it reaches the top.
In the fall, when it starts getting cool, dump it out and sift through the dirt for the spuds.
I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.
The potatoe part isnt going to get bigger…
It’s shriveling up and dying so it’s using all its stored energy in a last dying grasp for survival…
You need to fully bury it, or chop off the bits where it grew sprouts and store it like a regular one till you plant it. Neither way is guaranteed, but they’re both better chances than exposed like that.
Ah, appreciate that
So if I bury it in deeper dirt, should be good to go?
Probably.
I mean, you should take the time to Google it if you want it to turn out well.
But in general bury a tuber and it’ll grow. It’s basically just a root that stores crazy amounts of energy. They all evolved to have that part buried underground.
I dropped a potato on the tile floor in my pantry and it ended up looking more aggressive than this. I’d say they like it rough. Pull it’s hair a little bit and talk offensively about it’s mother.
Lmao
Life, uh, finds a way.
If you want to get some actual potatoes from that you’re gonna need a much bigger pot. Also you want the potato to be like… six inches underground.
