What weight of potatoes to get expect one potato plant.

[solway cropper]

It depends on so many things and obviously first earlies will give much less than maincrop as you want small new potatoes. All my spuds are container grown and currently my Kestrels are averaging about 1.5kg per seed but I'd expect 2kg+ from the maincrop as long as we can stay blight free.

[esbo]

just dug up another one got 650 grammes 1lb 7onz slightly than the last one (about 630).

Pretty pleased with that, I thought they would weight more as there were more 'big' ones.

Pretty happy I suppose, just seen morris piper selling in tesco fro over £1 a kilo.

Again I would have left them longer but I am struggling for space for tomato plants, looks a bit
odd there with two tomato plants in the potato row

Doubt I will get a whole more from those left in, this is 6 days after I pulled the last one up and I git 20 grammes more, however we shall I will leave some in until they stop growing completely.

They need another 5 weeks according to potstubsdustbins's post


[update] Just found another potato floating in the watering can I washed them in, that weight in at 53grames or 1 3/4 onz So I broke the 700 gramme mark!!

[chefgage]

For my first earlies i am getting about 1.5kg per two seed potatoes that are in a large pot

[Potstubsdustbins]

TK a friend of mine planted two LadyC to a Morrisons bucket. Best yield so far 3lb 15 oz.

Potty

[redser]

My lady CS in pots were a bit hmmm. But I'm getting a great return on the ones in the ground. Being the firsts ones in and left till now they are a great size. Depending on how well these store, I'm thinking of just doing these next year as my early AND main crop. I'll weigh the next plant I pull but the one last week would have been easily 1 kg.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Earlier this year after planting my main crop dustbins I had one Picasso seed potato left.
Being a little tight I decided to find a container and plant it, today was harvest time.

4lb 2oz not a bad result from one seed, but it does show the difference in yield between main crop and first earlies.

Potty

[chilli_grower]

I planted 6 potatoes from ASDA back in March in one of those rubber trugs from b and q, and had 5 1/2 LB in return.

I dont know if this is good or bad, but it seemed like a lot of potatoes to me, just from 6 being planted....

[esbo]

Earlier this year after planting my main crop dustbins I had one Picasso seed potato left.
Being a little tight I decided to find a container and plant it, today was harvest time.

4lb 2oz not a bad result from one seed, but it does show the difference in yield between main crop and first earlies.

Potty

Seems a lot compared to what I am getting, when were they planted?
Mine went in in early April I think, they have not had much in the way of fertiliser
and the are in a pretty shaded area. Might have helped if I watered them more
I think, most of the water has been going on the tomatoes, which have become a
jungle!!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Planted April 2nd, fed Miracle Grow after 5 weeks and then tomorite after week 10 and plenty of water.

Potty

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I am getting about 500g - 600g per seed pot from 2nd Early Kestrel. I treated them badly, no feeding or additional watering. I plan to look after them better next year.

[esbo]

I think they need water, basically everything tend to like water as long as not too much.
I mean tomatoes love water and potatoes are the same plant family, I am trying to make sure
mine get plenty in the next couple of weeks.

Anyhow for the scientists


A simple general equation for photosynthesis follows:

6 CO2 + 12 H2O + photons → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O
(carbon dioxide + water + light energy → glucose + oxygen + water).

So when there is a lot of light the plant can make a lot glucose or whatever it
needs to make the carbohydrates in a potato.

If you are not giving it enough water you are slowing that process down.

Mine are a bit shaded though do they don't get as much water as the tomatos
on the sunny side of the garden, the side of the garden which is now a tomato jungle!!!

Seriously they have gone berserk there are vines left right and centre and it is hard to tell where
one plant ends and the next starts!! Shame I cant eat the green stuff!

[esbo]

Well I decide to exhume another potato plant as I wanted the space to stick a tomato plant in, I could have left it longer as it the plant was still alive, albeit rather flattened.

Managed to harvest 1.414kg or 3lbs 2onz

That is double what I got from the plant I pulled up a month ago (26th aug) so
I am pretty pleased with it.

If I had fed and watered them more I might even have challenging potsanddustbins' 4lb 2onz
but I gave water priority to the tomatoes.

They are also in a shaded area, so that does not help much, they are quite near to one of those sewage inspection things so maybe they get some leakage to fertilise them form there.

But a very decent crop from one plant, more than I expected.

[Potstubsdustbins]

You would know if the inspection cover was leaking.......................... you would be paddling in some pretty disgusting stuff. LOL

Potty

[esbo]

Well nothing is leaking there, don't think it end has an inspection cover, maybe it has I have never really looked at it. It must have I guess, it's looks all concrete.

But I noticed stuff seemed to grow OK there, although the onions did not do too well.
Could have left them a few more weeks, managed to put my spade through one cos I underestimated how far the spuds spread.

[Irenton]

I have just started lifting my Maris Peer potatoes grown in pots, and often wondered how my yield compared to others.
So far the yield this year has been excellent. I grow 2 seeds in each large pot and the return so far averages 3.93lbs per pot (1780gms)
I let them grow longer than usual this year bertween 100-105 days. Normally I lift them after gowing for around 93 days.
Hope that helps.