You may also cut the flowers. That will result more potatoes, since the plant will not feed the flowers. Maybe you knew that already...
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Thought they’re important in the process 🥔🌼
No they are not, since we use potatoes for new plants and not the seeds. Something similar with strawberries...
You CAN grow potatoes from seed.
The potato plants grown from lil' "seed" potatoes are clones. If you're saving and planting your own potatoes year after year it's possible the plants could start to decline in quality.
Saving actual seeds and growing entirely new plants from time to time is a good practice if you're providing your own stock.
Yes that's perfectly right.
Planting seeds from hybrids will result in some plants that are like the parent plants and some that have a combination of traits. All will still be edible potatoes :) Save some of the ones you like to plant next time.
I don't agree on this one partly. They will be edible potatoes and all of that, yes, but the production would be very low and after three years, if you keep growing from the seeds, they will start to have normal production (meaning less production than the hybrids). So in conclusion, you need at least 3 years to have plants like the parent plants