Hey Permanauts! Thanks for stopping by and watching the video! Before you do anything else, subscribe to the channel: th-cam.com/channels/tWvHnhwXkrPQu5wrYKgggQ.html What are your favorite propagation methods? Share them in the comments! I'm now keeping a mostly daily journal of my progress here at Farm For All. You can read it at permies.com/p/1243213 I've designed a calculator to help you determine how much to grow in order to produce 100% of your own food. It's available for free or with donation at: permies.com/p/1199997 If you'd like to support my content but have no use my for staple crop calculator, you can buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/stonedapefarmer Thanks for being awesome!
Very nice! I've grown ginger, turmeric and of course sweet potatoes like this, but *derr, Jason!* it works with regular spuds, too. Growing from the peel, and getting to eat the potato too is my kind of magic 👍😊
This is super cool. I'm going to buy some seed potatoes and try that this year. It's too late to put any potatoes in the ground for dry farming here, but if this technique lets me bucket farm a ton of seed potatoes for next year that's a huge win
It's definitely a great way to produce seed potatoes as long a they get plenty of water. These never ended up making it into the ground directly, but price a lot of seed potatoes for the following season. 😁
Sweet potatoes don't grow well here because it's so cool, but if what I've heard from people in warmer climates is any indication, it should work great! I hope I get lots of potatoes this way, and I hope it works for you with sweet potatoes. 🙂
After I threw some potato skins into one of my worm compost bins, they started sprouting!! I ended up planting it in the garden. I haven't tried just popping the buds off yet, but, like you, I forget to water things sometimes and...then they die on me. So perhaps the little buds can be directly planted?
That's certainly a thought that I had. Conventional wisdom is that they need some of the tuber to sustain them, so I was mostly curious how well they'd root on their own. Based on what I've seen so far, I suspect they'd grow just fine if planted directly, though I imagine they'd have to be planted fairly shallowly because they won't have the energy reserves to push to the surface. You'd have to make sure the the soil near the surface stayed relatively moist until they developed a sufficient root system.
@@stonedapefarmer 🤔🤔🤔 hm. So you think if I try planting the sprouts and then mulching AROUND them but not on TOP might yield good results? Because the likelihood of me remembering where I put them all is SLIM. 🤣🤣🤣
@@MapleMudPermaculture 🤣 I know that feeling. I think if you use something light like straw, they should be able to make it up through that. That's pure speculation, though. I feel like wood chips or anything heavier like that would probably be too much. Of course, the only way to know for sure is to try it. Not like it's an expensive experiment if you already have sprouting potatoes sitting around anyway.
They all rooted well, but I had so much on my plate that year that I never got them into the ground. They formed a few small tubers in the bin before I forgot about them and they ran out of water. If you need to massively increase the number of plants you're growing, it seems like a great technique, but it can't beat the simplicity of throwing a tuber back in the ground at harvest time and leaving it to fend for itself. As I start to dig into potato breeding in earnest, I'll probably use this technique to expand the genetics I'm excited about more rapidly, but I wouldn't use it if I had enough seed potatoes for the variety I'm trying to grow.
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Hey Permanauts! Thanks for stopping by and watching the video!
Before you do anything else, subscribe to the channel: th-cam.com/channels/tWvHnhwXkrPQu5wrYKgggQ.html
What are your favorite propagation methods? Share them in the comments!
I'm now keeping a mostly daily journal of my progress here at Farm For All. You can read it at permies.com/p/1243213
I've designed a calculator to help you determine how much to grow in order to produce 100% of your own food. It's available for free or with donation at: permies.com/p/1199997
If you'd like to support my content but have no use my for staple crop calculator, you can buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/stonedapefarmer
Thanks for being awesome!
Very nice! I've grown ginger, turmeric and of course sweet potatoes like this, but *derr, Jason!* it works with regular spuds, too. Growing from the peel, and getting to eat the potato too is my kind of magic 👍😊
This is super cool. I'm going to buy some seed potatoes and try that this year.
It's too late to put any potatoes in the ground for dry farming here, but if this technique lets me bucket farm a ton of seed potatoes for next year that's a huge win
It's definitely a great way to produce seed potatoes as long a they get plenty of water. These never ended up making it into the ground directly, but price a lot of seed potatoes for the following season. 😁
Looks promising. It's a bit late but going to try this straight on the ground with grass clippings on top.
Great! Let me know how it goes for you!
Nice, I'm curious what the results will be! I'm a big fan of sweet potatoes, I'm going to give it a shot and see if it works for them too
Sweet potatoes don't grow well here because it's so cool, but if what I've heard from people in warmer climates is any indication, it should work great! I hope I get lots of potatoes this way, and I hope it works for you with sweet potatoes. 🙂
After I threw some potato skins into one of my worm compost bins, they started sprouting!! I ended up planting it in the garden. I haven't tried just popping the buds off yet, but, like you, I forget to water things sometimes and...then they die on me. So perhaps the little buds can be directly planted?
That's certainly a thought that I had. Conventional wisdom is that they need some of the tuber to sustain them, so I was mostly curious how well they'd root on their own. Based on what I've seen so far, I suspect they'd grow just fine if planted directly, though I imagine they'd have to be planted fairly shallowly because they won't have the energy reserves to push to the surface. You'd have to make sure the the soil near the surface stayed relatively moist until they developed a sufficient root system.
@@stonedapefarmer 🤔🤔🤔 hm. So you think if I try planting the sprouts and then mulching AROUND them but not on TOP might yield good results? Because the likelihood of me remembering where I put them all is SLIM. 🤣🤣🤣
@@MapleMudPermaculture 🤣 I know that feeling.
I think if you use something light like straw, they should be able to make it up through that. That's pure speculation, though. I feel like wood chips or anything heavier like that would probably be too much. Of course, the only way to know for sure is to try it. Not like it's an expensive experiment if you already have sprouting potatoes sitting around anyway.
Yes, the buds themselves can be planted. Mine are starting to pop up.
How did that work out? I’ve never had the best luck with potatoes
They all rooted well, but I had so much on my plate that year that I never got them into the ground. They formed a few small tubers in the bin before I forgot about them and they ran out of water.
If you need to massively increase the number of plants you're growing, it seems like a great technique, but it can't beat the simplicity of throwing a tuber back in the ground at harvest time and leaving it to fend for itself.
As I start to dig into potato breeding in earnest, I'll probably use this technique to expand the genetics I'm excited about more rapidly, but I wouldn't use it if I had enough seed potatoes for the variety I'm trying to grow.