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I am having something go wrong with my potatoes.

This is the first time I have tried to grow them.

I Planted them Feb 15 2010.


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In Hawaii and they get full sun. It has been colder here, but colder here is about low 70's.

As potato plants grow they need to be covered...you have to keep mounding soil up over them.

u are right on that tamara but what i want to know is it a fluke when i planted a whole potatoe in a planter one yr and check the next yr and not is the potatoe it self has gotten big but it also had off springs on the roots.

I don't understand..

The potato you planted becomes the seed then sends out roots. The roots then form all new potatoes.

ok so now I am confused---There is an obvious problem with the leaves, but it is so early in the season to be sun. is it some kind of fungus/pest??

Carol, its Hawaii so I'm thinking they did get sun scald from not being covered..what ya think???

has anyone tried to get potaoe bulbs and grow from that.

I have...and they were seeds...which were actually potatoes that had sprouts on them. You need to hill them. The new potatoes grow off of the stems...which turn into roots. Cover them up and once they poke out from the hills cover them one more time.

Tom

oh well tehn if it is Hawaii then yes I am thinking sun scald too.

Cool tom i am right now planting them in pots first i am in the north.

I'm in zone 3 and plant them right in the ground...they like the cold at first..it doesn't bother them at all.