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?

@tinkmarshino

Жыл бұрын

you maybe right about the one eye... but I am gonna try it on one row of potatoes this next growing season..

@chrispedersen6999

Жыл бұрын

On seed potato packs they advise two good chits. Remove the rest. I hope this helps.

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

@chrispedersen6999 Makes sense, thanks!

@rajib8231

Жыл бұрын

Good 💡

@6140970

Жыл бұрын

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.

@asommicman7744

2 ай бұрын

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.

@makeoversbymeme2077

Жыл бұрын

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 😊

@kevoprezzo

Жыл бұрын

@@makeoversbymeme2077 I think the channel you were looking for is called Urban Gardening kzread.info/dash/bejne/eqSc0turhdzMaJs.html&ab_channel=UrbanGardening

@makeoversbymeme2077

Жыл бұрын

@@kevoprezzo thank you so much ☺️

@headmastertv7291

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts I think your right.more number you plant the more harvest you get ❤

@playdiscgolf1546

Жыл бұрын

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)

@fancythat5136

Жыл бұрын

Leaving one eye makes so much sense now after watching his video. Your grandfather was a smart man.

@Z71Ranger

Жыл бұрын

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...

@carl8568

Жыл бұрын

So the ash was to inhibit fungal growth of the fresh cut?

@mikewilson8265

Жыл бұрын

@@carl8568 also to adjust soil ph to start rooting.

@carl8568

Жыл бұрын

@@mikewilson8265 Adding ash to soil promotes alkalinity where potatoes prefer a slightly acidic soil.

Thank you for taking the time to do this experiment!

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.

I really appreciate your video with well explained trial, no repetition and straight to the results without wasting time. Thanks

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video :)

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 ....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! 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

@radamson1

Жыл бұрын

Not only that, had he planted both halves the would have got many more potatoes from each potato planted.

@DarkGT

Жыл бұрын

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.

@beckysnyder3924

2 ай бұрын

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!)

Thank you! I learned a lot! Can’t wait for next spring!

I love your excitement! ☺️ This is a fantastic experiment, thank you for sharing! 💖🦋

Love the enthousiasm when you harvest them, cant wait for that moment in my own garden for myself!

Thank you for this video. Great info and I love the comparison you did. Very easy to follow and understand what you are doing,

Thank you, that was awesome. Yes I agree the whole potatoes competed for space so developed smaller ones. You are the greatest.

Your enthusiasm is infectious! We will try cut and whole potatoes this spring.

I'm a scientist and a beginner to growing food so I appreciate this video A LOT. Thank you.

Nice! I love a well controlled garden experiment! 🥔❤

Great post. Thank you!!!

Thank you! I always wondered if I should keep cutting my potatoes or just plant them whole.

I enjoy these experiments, thank you for doing them.

Fascinating experiment, thanks!

I enjoy your awe and excitement at harvest time

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.

This is good information, thanks for the experiment!

Great experiment! I am surprised with the results, we always used cut potatoes/eyes for planting our potatoes, we yielded great quantities.

Awesome experiment!

I'm getting into gardening and all of this is amazing to me!

Great controlled experiment man very helpfully!

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!

@chichi9851

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it crazy how much better they are than store- bought?

Good info, will be planting whole potatoes 🥔. Thank you 😊

nice experiment! thanks.

This is interesting thank you! I, going to try it this year too.

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 !!❤

Lovely Experiment ! Already seen The Cut Potato Bigger Result

Wow 😮

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 😊

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!

Love your videos keep them coming!

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

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!

@EvolutionWendy

Жыл бұрын

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...

@joyfisher8008

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Wow! Very informative video. I always wondered why we get smaller potatoes with leaving more chits. Makes perfect sense now...TY...

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.

Great video!

Great video thanks 😊

Thanks!

@DaisyCreekFarms

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the support!

That is very interesting!

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

Excellent comparison. I think I’ll do a mixture next year to get some larger ones.

The reason for observations makes real sense ❤

Gotta add the half you ate to the harvest! 😜

Very interesting experiment, thanks for sharing....

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.

I always love ur videos the best. Seems like I waste time w other videos lol. Very informative thank you ❤

very interesting video thanks.

Great experience

Good video, Bhai🤗 Thanks for the experiment!

That makes sense! I’m cutting from now on 😁

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

Perfect info! KZread is free collage

Wow, you are a systematic scientist. Your work is acceptable for publication!!!

Wow nice sharing

Sounds like its a good idea to do some of each

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?

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

Interesting thought, I did some quick research, looks like sweet potatoes are the ones that form storage roots, potatoes are tubers.

@sinnahsaint7869

Жыл бұрын

@@DaisyCreekFarms you'r getting caught up on terminology and not thinking about the actual idea presented.

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

This is interesting content watching from Canada 🇨🇦 i ❤gardening 😊

This makes sense to me.

Hello from Idaho👋

It would be interesting to do a comparison using both ends of the cut potatoes vs the full potatoes.

@BlackJesus8463

Жыл бұрын

With unlimited root space!

@EvolutionWendy

Жыл бұрын

​@@BlackJesus8463 Dreamer! Unlimited root space...

@BlackJesus8463

Жыл бұрын

@@EvolutionWendy Yeah, I wish!

@TMesser74

Жыл бұрын

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!

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

Wow❤

I have done it both ways many times not for any particular reason though. Potatoes are so fun to grow.

Does make sense

Always good 👍 to watch your videos from South Africa 🇿🇦

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! :)

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.

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

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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 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

Wow

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?🙏🏻😃

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

Very cool! Do you think if you had fewer whole potatoes in the same space it would yield the same?

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.

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 accent. So 😎

The potatoes grow and multiple and grow fast 👍

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.

@taylorhillard4868

Жыл бұрын

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.

It sounds like you have children who are required to enter a Science Fair project!!! 👏👏🤓😇 you hit all the requirements- nailed it!!! 👏👍👍

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

I need to do this!! School field trips with experiments!

@aureliafox2924

Жыл бұрын

@@DaisyCreekFarms YESSSS!!!!!!

@aureliafox2924

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

Haha true, will do it this spring! Thanks for this great idea!

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.

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

@elmerkilred159

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

@youtubesponsarshipgiver2887

Жыл бұрын

😅👍😜If 8 piece of 4 it will more branches and more fruit than ehole potato🤣😲👍👍

@youtubesponsarshipgiver2887

Жыл бұрын

Wrong experiment by youtuber.. Viewers smarter than youtubers in calculation

Wanting to start potatoe box this year how deep does soil need to be thanks

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.

@DaisyCreekFarms

Жыл бұрын

You should watch this, I have video just on how to plant potatoes kzread.info/dash/bejne/faOEzZmSfZnKnLg.html

Now I think maybe I need to always plant a mix of whole & chits. I like having some larger potatoes.

Grt paji

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

Good day mate. After cutting the potatoes in 1/2 put it in wood Ash to seal the cut

Hi does your wooden boxes have holes in the bottom so the water can drain?

I found planting small whole potatoes do better for fall planting here in Texas

That's what she said!

ah. i like the reasoning. more plants = smaller potatoes, but a lot. less plants = fewer potatoes, but bigger.

Do you plant the potatoes with the chits/eyes up or down please?

Where did you store the cut potatoes for a week?

Awe thank you for this!!! Quick QUESTION: Is it normal for cut potatoes to turn like an ugly black or dark brown while drying them out? Can you Jag or Anyone answer this for me? Thank you!!!! :)

Did you fertilize? What did you use?

We're the overal weights comparable?