Everything about potatoes for 2021

[Rajqawee]

That said, I still noticed that in a simple crate (box of reclaimed apples for example) covered with another cardboard (therefore, quite opaque), nothing had germinated, even in more than a month. .

In my opinion, they were dormant!

With a witness (tubers left in the light), we could be sure ...

I have always seen potatoes for consumption, kept in the dark (so as not to turn green), germinate "at a certain time"!

Okay, I don't know, I've never had to keep PDTs for more than a month. The market gardener also had a cold room, so he kept everything in there, so opaque AND cold (and mistakenly thought that it was the light that made them germinate?). Interesting anyway.

For those who talk a lot about storage, I found this document very easily:

https://www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/wp ... f_2061.pdf

@biobombe: nice plot

[Did67]

(and mistakenly thought that it was light that made them germinate?).

The experiment is easy to do: take 2 or 3 tubers which have no germs, which are not treated against germination, and put them in a completely opaque shoebox. You forget them warm. And one day, in 3 months, you will fall on it and you will have "spaghetti" maybe 1 meter!

[Biobomb]

(and mistakenly thought that it was light that made them germinate?).

The experiment is easy to do: take 2 or 3 tubers which have no germs, which are not treated against germination, and put them in a completely opaque shoebox. You forget them warm. And one day, in 3 months, you will fall on it and you will have "spaghetti" maybe 1 meter!

This is how they do in the ground, right?

[Did67]

Yes of course !

This is another argument that the need for light is not credible ...

When dormancy is over, when the temperature of the soil exceeds around 10/12 ° C, potatoes even 20 cm underground, germinate! [I buried mine less - about ten, but I have no doubt that it would cross 20cm]

[alkaline]

To know everything about each variety ...
Do you know this site?
http://www.fiches.arvalis-infos.fr/liste_fiches.php?fiche=var&type=001

I don't know Arvalis but the information is given in the form of an identity sheet for each PDT with:
- Name
- descriptive characters
- Yield (also compared to Bintje as a benchmark)
- Resistance to bio-aggressors
- Culinary and technological characteristics

[Biobomb]

To know everything about each variety ...
Do you know this site?
http://www.fiches.arvalis-infos.fr/liste_fiches.php?fiche=var&type=001

Alkaline please, help, I can't find a classic, the Agria.

[alkaline]

Alkaline please, help, I can't find a classic, the Agria.

Oh yes, what ?! There's also no Vitabella with which I hesitated ... weird

[Did67]

There are too many varieties listed in the catalogs. To carry out tests, with repetition, etc. - so that it is meaningful - Arvalis makes choices.

It is an institute more oriented towards advising farmers ... So sometimes, things very popular among amateurs are not found in their lists!

[Did67]

There are other sources, in particular the indications of the breeder or the multiplier:

https://www.legroupeclisson.fr/catalogu ... ente/agria

Click on download the technical sheet at the bottom right of the image.

PS: you will tell me that it is "advertising" then; in fact, not that much! The "notations" keys are standardized; no breeder who targets the professional market, can "burn himself" by saying anything (unlike Youtube or the internet for amateur gardeners): he would completely and for a long time lose the confidence of producers or technical advisers ... It would be suicidal.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Everything, everything, everything I'll tell you everything about the potato the real the false the ugly the beautiful, the hard the soft, etc:
http://plantdepommedeterre.org/index/co ... s-varietes