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Apr 24, 2012

Pulling out potatoes' buds.


 Nipping out extra buds of potatoes is well-known technique in Japan. Too many buds or sprouts might suck up nutrition which should be distributed to potatoes and then we might end up with only smaller potatoes. Today I pulled out some of my potatoes' buds. The yellow-circled bud was smaller than others and it was the one to be nipped out.

 You can see 2 bigger buds are left in the photo shown below.





Nipped-out buds.

 I remember I was surprised with the fact that none of my blogging friends in overseas didn't know the technique when I introduced the technique last year on my blog.


--from iPad

3 comments:

Robin said...

I must have missed this last year. I have never heard of this before. Does it help the plant to produce more potatoes?

takaeko said...

>Robin
Well, it mainly can make potatoes bigger.
If you don't pull out the buds, more and smaller potatoes might be produced.

becky3086 said...

Interesting. I had never heard of this before either.