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.
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| 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:
I must have missed this last year. I have never heard of this before. Does it help the plant to produce more potatoes?
>Robin
Well, it mainly can make potatoes bigger.
If you don't pull out the buds, more and smaller potatoes might be produced.
Interesting. I had never heard of this before either.
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