I Grew Cut vs Whole Potatoes with Harvest Results
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- I conducted a potato growing experiment by planting whole potatoes and cut potatoes and the results are surprising. I kept everything else constant such as sunlight, fertilizer, and watering. Cut vs Whole Potatoes with Harvest Results
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I have another idea, what if I plant the whole potato but keep only one eye/chit on the potato and get rid of the other eyes, hmm and do the same for cut potatoes too, only one eye per potato. So only one plant grows per panted potato. Another video? lol But then I think the result might be the same, fewer larger potatoes, what you all think?
you maybe right about the one eye... but I am gonna try it on one row of potatoes this next growing season..
On seed potato packs they advise two good chits. Remove the rest.
I hope this helps.
@chrispedersen6999 Makes sense, thanks!
Good 💡
It most likely grow larger potatoes, because then all the energy is going into the one eye. It would be interesting to see what the outcome would look like hey
It's December. We just got our rains and cold weather. My "wild potato" have sprouted and the plants are growing. It's amusing to me, that every year, potatoes grow as winter approaches. I don't plant them. They are just potatoes that are left in the ground. It started decades ago when I buried some old produce. I think you did a video about that - burying garbage to compost. They come back every year. There are always free potatoes in my yard.
That's so cool 😎 nature is awesome
I did this experiment a few times. If you have the space in your gargen, cut each eye into a different piece. sometimes you can get 4 or 5 plants from one seed potato. The whole potato starts out faster, but the cut potato catches up. You can get 20-25lbs from one split seed potato, and 8-10lbs from one whole seed potato.
Thanks for your comment ! I thought I remember seeing someone do a video and cut the potato so one chit was on each piece but couldn’t find it. I’m planting for the first time this week 😊
@@makeoversbymeme2077 I think the channel you were looking for is called Urban Gardening
ua-cam.com/video/HphpyrUyf88/v-deo.html&ab_channel=UrbanGardening
@@kevoprezzo thank you so much ☺️
Thank you for sharing your thoughts I think your right.more number you plant the more harvest you get ❤
I planted whole potato seeds and each one gave me 4-5 plants
My grandfather always planted cut potatoes in his large veggie garden but he always coated the cut area with wood ash and only left one eye on the seed potatoes. His garden was an acre in size and feed half a dozen families in his district. (Central Queensland in Australia)
Leaving one eye makes so much sense now after watching his video. Your grandfather was a smart man.
My grandfather did the same but he used Powder Sulfur to coat the cut potatoes... He sold his vegetables in town 3 days a week...
So the ash was to inhibit fungal growth of the fresh cut?
@@carl8568 also to adjust soil ph to start rooting.
@@mikewilson8265
Adding ash to soil promotes alkalinity where potatoes prefer a slightly acidic soil.
Thank you ....answers some of my questions. The cut potatoes gave the best results (in my opinion). Not only did they yield bigger potato's, You were able to eat at least half of each potato as well prior to cutting them. I would weigh the cut portion of the piece you kept to eat and add it to the final results. Would be interesting! 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Not only that, had he planted both halves the would have got many more potatoes from each potato planted.
The less "eyes" means less shoots to take over the energy. So less potato stems to concentrate the energy into few large potatoes. Alternative: Some people suggest cutting the stems and leaving 1 or 2 of them if you are using whole potato.
Agree about the cut potatoes actually producing more. If he had cut one large potato into four sections he would have gotten an entire bed’s worth from just ONE potato as compared to FOUR potatoes in the other bed. So your cut seed potatoes go much further (And even from a grocery store organic potatoes are still expensive!)
I really appreciate your video with well explained trial, no repetition and straight to the results without wasting time. Thanks
Glad you liked the video :)
Very interesting results. I had two rows of potatoes with cabbage in between. Both sides had huge plants, same amount of sun and water, but one side had both more and larger potatoes. I did not plant any whole potatoes, so I'm not sure why one side was more prolific. 🤔
Best potatoes I have ever tasted!
Isn't it crazy how much better they are than store- bought?
Thank you for taking the time to do this experiment!
I'm a scientist and a beginner to growing food so I appreciate this video A LOT. Thank you.
This was really interesting, and I concur with your conclusion. In fact, I will be planting potatoes this week in grow bags, and because of your experiment, I will be using cut/chit potatoes. Thanks for doing this.
so glad I watched this before planting at my community garden. I find smaller potatoes to be more tender than the bigger potatoes so I will plant mostly whole potatoes with a few cut ones. As a scientist, I am grateful that you controlled as many variables as you did. I'd be curious if you would get identical results if you used the same bed and divided it in half. That way, the soil is absolutely the same.
Very interesting study!! I love the way you controlled the variants. Also I think you have the right explanation for the varied results. The plant thing I don’t know is why the whole potatoes through more offspring than the cut potatoes with the same amount of eyes!!!
Well done!! I find this so intriguing !!
Thank you! I always wondered if I should keep cutting my potatoes or just plant them whole.
Awesome side by side comparison! Thanks for the experiment and findings. I started planting whole small potatoes and stopped cutting them up a few years ago and have only gotten smaller harvests. Perhaps for the big spuds we should cut them up!
Interesting Kelly. I have never grown potatoes, due to hard packed clay soil, but it looks pretty easy to try this using 2x4s... or 2x6s perhaps was the size...
@@EvolutionWendy I have seen videos of potatoes grown in 5 gal buckets elevated on plant stands, holes drilled in bottom of bucket for drainage. Can't remember if whole or cut potatoes were used but yield was about 5 lbs (2.2 kg) per bucket.
Thank you, that was awesome. Yes I agree the whole potatoes competed for space so developed smaller ones. You are the greatest.
Love the enthousiasm when you harvest them, cant wait for that moment in my own garden for myself!
It would be interesting to do a comparison using both ends of the cut potatoes vs the full potatoes.
With unlimited root space!
@@BlackJesus8463 Dreamer! Unlimited root space...
@@EvolutionWendy Yeah, I wish!
Just double the harvest of the cut potatoes and there is your results if you give the extra cut potatoes equal space. My conclusion is if limited on space but plenty of seed potatoes available and looking for more pounds, use whole potatoes. If limited on potatoes and space isn't an issue and/or looking for. Bigger potato size harvest, cut the potatoes!
I am not trying to equalize the potatoes, Potatoes are the variable in this experiment, everything else is a constant. If I plant 8 halves then I need 8 sqft of space for cut potatoes and the experiment will be invalid because I would be comparing growing cut potatoes in 8sqft vs whole potatoes in 4sqft. If I plant 8 cut halves in 4 sqft, then the experiment is nullified since there is no variable, everything is constant including the amount of potatoes.
Good info, will be planting whole potatoes 🥔. Thank you 😊
Wow Jag that is amazing. I think I would prefer bigger potatoes then the little one's. I just might try the cut one's.
Thank you!
I enjoy your awe and excitement at harvest time
I love your excitement! ☺️ This is a fantastic experiment, thank you for sharing! 💖🦋
Great experiment! I am surprised with the results, we always used cut potatoes/eyes for planting our potatoes, we yielded great quantities.
Thank you for this video. Great info and I love the comparison you did. Very easy to follow and understand what you are doing,
I think it's the cut potatoes reacting to the lack of food to start their season and making sure the next plant had large reserves to start. The Uncut potatoes didn't have this pressure and just spit out as many potatoes as possible.
Excellent comparison. I think I’ll do a mixture next year to get some larger ones.
Thanks so much for this test. I like using the whole one, I happen to like smaller potatoes since I want to keep the portion down. Also, I am lazy and do not like to wait for the cut one to scab over... An old timer told me long ago, just put one whole potato in a 5-gallon bucket 5" below the surface. You made up my mind for me. It still depends on the way you like the size to be. I am impressed with the results. So this year I will plant them whole. Great video.
Thank you for posting this video!! I am sitting here staring at my whole potatoes, debating what I should do. You just made up my mind 😊
Your enthusiasm is infectious! We will try cut and whole potatoes this spring.
I have an idea. The cut potatoes they didn't have any storage at the outset, so the first thing they did was build a new storage root ➡️ one big potato, then made additional storage roots ➡️ several smaller potato.
The whole potatoes felt comfortable that they already had a storage root, so the first thing they did was start making additional storage roots ➡️ smaller potato's.
What do you think of this idea?
Interesting thought, I did some quick research, looks like sweet potatoes are the ones that form storage roots, potatoes are tubers.
@@DaisyCreekFarms you'r getting caught up on terminology and not thinking about the actual idea presented.
Hmm I see, the reason I made the above comment is because I am not sure if potatoes do work on the storage root trait. If they do, yes, @earthabide the idea makes sense.
Nice! I love a well controlled garden experiment! 🥔❤
I think you should have taken 4 potatoes for each experiment to make it equal/fair that is, the cut potatoes planted would have been eight. ( In this case it seems like you were comparing 4 to 2 potatoes)
The total weight would show whether the whole or cut potatoes produced more, maybe that can be your next trial? Just a thought
Hi Alice, I am not trying to equalize the potatoes. Potatoes are the variable in this experiment, while space, sunlight, fertilizer, and watering etc are constant. If I plant 8 halves then I need 8 sqft of space for cut potatoes and the experiment will be invalid because I would be comparing growing cut potatoes in 8sqft vs whole potatoes in 4sqft. If I plant 8 cut halves in 4 sqft, then the experiment is nullified since there is no variable, everything is constant including the amount of potatoes.
I enjoy these experiments, thank you for doing them.
Lovely Experiment !
Already seen The Cut Potato Bigger Result
Gotta add the half you ate to the harvest! 😜
So, you actually get a larger harvest from cutting your potatoes.
4 uncut potatoes yielded 4.92lbs (about 5lbs)
2 potatoes cut in half yielded 3.80lbs (about 4lbs)
Had you have planted the other halves of potatoes to compare 4 whole potatoes with 4 cut potatoes, the results might have been closer to 5lbs uncut, or 8lbs from 8 halves.
A more accurate experiment would need to be done using the same experiment, but multiple grow boxes to determine an actual average.
Not 2 potatoes cut in half. I cut 4 potatoes in half. The other half of the potatoes did not have any chits or eyes, If I had planted the other half then the experiment would not be valid because the potatoes would be a constant too, there needs to be a variable while all other things are constant for the experiment.
@@DaisyCreekFarms You planted 4 halves. 1/2 x 4 = 2 whole potatoes. You needed to plant 8 half pieces to equal 4 whole potatoes regardless of chits.
I am not trying to equalize the potatoes, Potatoes are the variable in this experiment. If I plant 8 halves then I need 8 sqft of space for cut potatoes and the experiment will be invalid because Iwould be comparing growing cut potatoes in 8sqft vs whole potatoes in 4sqft. If I plant 8 cut halves in 4 sqft, then the experiment is nullified since there is no variable, everything is constant including the amount of potatoes.
😅👍😜If 8 piece of 4 it will more branches and more fruit than ehole potato🤣😲👍👍
Wrong experiment by youtuber.. Viewers smarter than youtubers in calculation
you are a master as showing the whole process and comparison.. 👏 amazing video. thank you. i was hoping to make 3 plants from 1 potato since it has eyes in three places and now I can do it !!❤
Sounds like its a good idea to do some of each
I'm getting into gardening and all of this is amazing to me!
Wow, you are a systematic scientist. Your work is acceptable for publication!!!
Awesome experiment!
Great post. Thank you!!!
Very good information. Thank you for this tutorial. What do you do with the green potatoes? How would you bring them to full ripeness? Thank you.
Green potatoes contain toxins due to their exposure to sunlight. Don't eat them, but they'll work fine as seed potatoes next planting season if you store them well.
Congratulations this idea make a lot of sense 100% that one with which is whole have many chuts it sprouts and hence compete for nutrients
Hi
I'm really benefiting from all your videos
Normally if I let my potatoes to chit longer I get to use almost the entire potatoes
So more pieces of potatoes 🥔 so more plants and bigger potatoes
Hope my method and ideas help
Plus my advantage in South Africa 🇿🇦 is more hot climate throughout the year
Love your videos keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
Great job! I've only been growing potatoes for about 4 or 5 years this is valuable information. I always plant whole potatoes but this year I think I'm going to do both. Raise bed gets whole potatoes and 5gal buckets get halfs
Wow! Very informative video. I always wondered why we get smaller potatoes with leaving more chits. Makes perfect sense now...TY...
As I read the comments I consider the idea that it is a lack of competition from the one eye. With that in mind I have become very good at rooting a single eye pluck from a potato. I should try a garden of eye sprouts vs the each of these to reach further understanding of growth free from resource competition. Eliminating other eyes from the potato would isolate an experiment on the value of the potato to the eye sprout. I wager the potato has early life value but the root structure is the primary resource collector after development, to what end I can only guess. The lack of competition would also leave room, allowing larger tubers. The harvest value is still a wild card having watched this video.
That makes total sense.
When I asked my aunt for advice the first time I grew taters she had to ask her husband. He said as a kid they took a sharpened melon baller and scooped out the chits to plant just the chits, that way they could eat the rest of the potato. They were po! Too po to afford the second O and the R of poor.
Growing food is an art of a thousand methods.
Nice experiment! I would recommend a couple of changes next time:
1- test whole potatoes against the entirety of the cut potatoes (both sides, or cut into however many pieces there are chits), because that would make more sense as "x kg of potatoes gave y kg harvest" - so people can know whether to plant potatoes whole, or cut them up around the chits and plant all of the pieces.
2- or just redo this experiment exactly the same but add the weight of the halves of the potatoes that you ate to the cut potatoes harvest. if you have that info i'd love to hear it!
Thanks for making great content
Great controlled experiment man very helpfully!
Thank you! I learned a lot! Can’t wait for next spring!
The reason for observations makes real sense ❤
I have done it both ways many times not for any particular reason though. Potatoes are so fun to grow.
Wow thank you po your video is very helpful ❤❤
Wow 😮
Great experience
Thanks!
Thank you for the support!
I got similar results in overall productivity, but no bigger bulbs from sliced seed, just fewer of them.
BTW why are you burying the seed so deep under the surface? Is this specific for raised beds or just your personal preference? I grow potatoes in traditional ground rows, with no more than 5cm (~2 inches) of soil piled on top of the seed, as thicker cover will delay sprouting for no apparent benefit.
Hi Vladimir, I have planted potatoes shallow before, 1 to 2 inches, however they start forming potatoes too close to the surface and they turn out green. So I plant them 3 inches deep, provided that you have loose soil. If planted shallow, they will need to be mulched with fallen/dead leaves or woodchips once the potato plants start to grow. Once you plant them no more than 2 inches deep do you come back and hill them? Have any green potatoes in the harvest?
@@DaisyCreekFarms I got very few green potatoes, like literally a handful of them out of a 90Kg harvest. I don't need to hill them a second time after sprouting, but I plow the soil 30cm deep before seeding and I actually place seed potatoes on top ground surface than cover them with dirt lifted from the sides, so they have plenty of soft ground underneath to spread in. Usually bulbs grow as deep as 20cm in these rows and don't spontaneously push up towards the surface, the green ones are just accidentally dug out by animals (mainly my crazy dog burying bones all over the garden).
This is good information, thanks for the experiment!
Fascinating experiment, thanks!
I think that people who believe that the cut potatoes producing fewer potatoes, but larger potatoes, and therfore think that is the best way to go, are forgetting that the frost came early and killed back the potato plants. If the potatoes had been allowed to stay in the ground longer, then the the whole potatoes would have been allowed to grow larger and would have easily outperformed the cut potatoes. Now I know some of you will argue that the cut potatoes would have kept growing too. However, potatoes do have a sort of maximum growth that they will attain. So, given each group the opportunity for maximal growth, the greater number of spuds that resulted from the whole potatoes would have resulted in a much more bountiful harvest.
I always love ur videos the best. Seems like I waste time w other videos lol. Very informative thank you ❤
This is interesting thank you! I, going to try it this year too.
Thanks for the comparison. Ive always wondered the difference. You mentioned fertilizer, how do you feed your potatoes?
I use 4-4-2 organic chicken manure fertilizer, aged.
@@DaisyCreekFarms oh interesting, thankyou. When you say 4-4-2 exactly does that mean? What is mixed in with it?
4-4-2 is the ratio of NPK, it is made of chicken manure alone.
That makes sense! I’m cutting from now on 😁
I have a bunch of old beehive boxes that are the same size as the ones you used. I could stack them up and form a deeper box
Good day mate. After cutting the potatoes in 1/2 put it in wood Ash to seal the cut
You should add the produce from both halves in order to get the production from one potato. That would show both bigger potatoes and more weight from the cut potatoes.
Hi, thanks for the comment, So I am not trying to equalize the amount of potatoes planted. Potatoes are the variable in this experiment, while space, sunlight, fertilizer, and watering etc are constant. If I plant 8 halves then I need 8 sqft of space for cut potatoes and the experiment will be invalid because I would be comparing growing cut potatoes in 8sqft vs whole potatoes in 4sqft. If I plant 8 cut halves in 4 sqft, then the experiment is nullified since there is no variable, everything is constant including the amount of potatoes.
Always good 👍 to watch your videos from South Africa 🇿🇦
Thank you for watching! :)
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Very interesting experiment, thanks for sharing....
Does make sense
Yeah bow do this again with proper spacing between them when planted.. 12” apart all around at a minimum.. that’s why they were all so small both ways tbh.. also some of the whole parties were pretty green.. no one is eating those and should be thrown into the compost pile not added to weighted yields
It sounds like you have children who are required to enter a Science Fair project!!! 👏👏🤓😇 you hit all the requirements- nailed it!!! 👏👍👍
I need to do this!! School field trips with experiments!
@@DaisyCreekFarms YESSSS!!!!!!
@@DaisyCreekFarms honestly, if you wanted to start off easy, you could literally go to your closest middle school or elementary school, talk with administration and show them this video, and invite yourself to help kiddos with their science, fair projects!
Haha true, will do it this spring! Thanks for this great idea!
THanks very informative. I have some tiny red potatoes that have sprouted on all sides. Was debating on planting them whole one inch diameter or cutting in half. I think I will still cut them in half after watching this.
You should watch this, I have video just on how to plant potatoes ua-cam.com/video/KoPk7YM6dlU/v-deo.html
Great test.. it makes sense to me I plant my potatoes every year and always use cut potatoes.. Maybe I will use less potatoes and make them whole this next time. If I give then enough room maybe they will grow better.. and then try your idea on the last row of one eye only
Good video, Bhai🤗 Thanks for the experiment!
nice experiment! thanks.
Thank you for this experiment. I've been growing for about a year and a half. I usually have 2+ chits and feel like I'm wasting a bunch. I figured I could just slice 1 chit per 1-2 inches of baby 'root'. I'm probably wrong but I'm curious as to how big/mature does a chit have to be for you to tlansplant individually.
This is interesting content watching from Canada 🇨🇦 i ❤gardening 😊
ah. i like the reasoning. more plants = smaller potatoes, but a lot. less plants = fewer potatoes, but bigger.
I found planting small whole potatoes do better for fall planting here in Texas
That's what she said!
Just recently came across your videos and have learned so much… thank you!!! Plan to plant some seed potatoes soon. I know you mentioned the type of fertilizer in another video, but I didn’t pick up on the type of granular/pelleted fertilizer it was… I got that you use sulfur and iron. Could you tell me what the granular one is please?🙏🏻😃
It's a chicken manure fertilizer with NPK ratio 442. The exact fertilizer might not be available in your area but you can get something similar for organic gardening or with OMRI seal.
Now I think maybe I need to always plant a mix of whole & chits. I like having some larger potatoes.
All of the potatoes had blight from the beginning. See those black tips on their sprouts? That might of been a problem too.
Love your accent. So 😎
This makes sense to me.
The potatoes grow and multiple and grow fast 👍
I’ve seen most people who cut the potato, plant both halves..
so it wasn’t really equal. You also cut about a 3rd off, not half. I think the experiment would be more equal if say, 6 full potato’s vs 6 potato’s cut in half were planted. Cool experiment though .. I was intrigued.
Bigger from the halves 😊
Potatoes are the variable in this experiment, everything else is constant, if i have the same amount of potato planted than there is no variable to compare. i will need twice the amount of space to plant 6 potatoes cut in half to have proper spacing, it will not be a valid experiment.
Any advice on brands of soil to buy that aren’t filled with gnats? It was insane the amount of gnats I got when trying to grow potatoes in containers. I tried everything to get rid of them and nothing worked
That is very interesting!
But you ate half the cut potatoes. So. Not much difference?
Still some difference. The limited resources favored the larger spuds because they had access to more stored energy.
very interesting video thanks.
Great video thanks 😊
Very cool! Do you think if you had fewer whole potatoes in the same space it would yield the same?
But if you consider the amount of potatoes that you planted the cut potatoes uses only 2 whole one technically. So maybe if it’s 4 PCs cut into half it come out as 8 and might produce more. I could be wrong. Awesome experiment though and helpful for my next gardening season. Thank you!
HI Ailene, Others have said the same. However, I am not trying to equalize the potatoes, Potatoes are the variable in this experiment, everything else is a constant. If I plant 8 halves then I need 8 sqft of space for cut potatoes and the experiment will be invalid because I would be comparing growing cut potatoes in 8sqft vs whole potatoes in 4sqft. If I plant 8 cut halves in 4 sqft, then the experiment is nullified since there is no variable, everything is constant including the amount of potatoes.
Nice so if you have the space. Use cut potatoes to give you more harvest from less seed stock.