Maincrops have flowered already...

[VirginVegGrower]

I might be pushing my luck posting this but you will notice that I never post on a thread about blight.

Simple because I have no experience at all off the dreaded disease. I think it maybe that I have no other GYOers any where near me.

Do like the idea of sending the other half to take pics. But you know us men make sure the batteries charged.

Potty

He's doing his best, pretty stretched at the moment. I'm paranoid about blight and I thought once flowered I might be best to cut my losses and harvest what's there. A couple have started to yellow, but I can't see any sooty black bits. Trouble is I don't really know what I'm looking for either. Trying to describe it confuses us both all the more.

[binley100]

My mains are flowering now . My seconds have flowered and are now going yellow. My first earlies don't seem to have flowered at all . We dug up some first earlies today and although there wasn't a big yield there were some big tatties. I also had a furtle in the no dig bed and came out with a good handful of some nice clean second earlies.
Blight watch e-mails everyday but so far I can't see any signs of it.

[Chef_uk]

My Maris Piper's have flowered for a couple of weeks now and have already started to lose some and are being replaced by quite a few berries. Had to research what the heck they were lol but now know All the helms are still really healthy though so i'm not in any rush to harvest whats underneath yet.

Has anyone ever kept the seeds and tried growing them the following year/s?

[Jamesy_uk]

All mine are the same and have started yellowing to boot. I am pulling them up as I need them and chucking in leftover seed potatoes or some anya my mum had which started healthily chitting and she refused to eat. I figure theres nothing else gonna go into the bags really so why not chance my arm at a late crop.

[angie a]

As I put on an earlier post, my Desiree have been in flower for a couple of weeks, but absolutely nothing on the Pentland Javelin in bags. Am going to have a ferret around in the bags next week, but will leave the maincrop. I rather fancy, with the wet but not too cold weather, we will have to keep a real close eye open for blight.

[Gemmalaveen]

This is my first year of growing potatoes so I don't really know what to expect. My maincrop spuds are flowering now and I was planning to leave them in the soil until Sep/Oct, but now I am worried about blight!

[VirginVegGrower]

All foliage blighted and cut down. Looks like decision made

[kentishgal]

I think my main crops are ok. Well, they have collapsed under the weight of heavy rain and are now trailing over the sides of the bag rather then growing upright!! Flowered a while ago but the green bits still look nice and healthy so Im going to leave them for now (at least the sideways foliage means that the compost is able to get the benefit of the rain!!LOL).

[Chef_uk]

Hmm, having inspected mine a little closer, is this blight? It has been reported near by and for this variety 10 days ago

[taff]

I think so. Have a look at the 'is it blight' thread in vegging out to check yourself.

[Shadylane]

I'm no expert but that looks like blight to me. Think some of our kestrel have it. I chopped some of the leaves off the other day but will have to check soon to see if there's any more signs. The first earlies aren't exactly prolific. Some have what looks like leaf curl or black leg, or maybe the stems have just rotted due to being sat in wet mud for weeks on end. The mains on our other - less heavy soiled - plot look a lot better, (and are flowering) but who knows this year.