It wasn’t my intention, but here it is. Still too frosty to plant outside but it’s getting bigger every day.
This also isn’t the best pot to have used for transplanting, I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.
Advice is welcome. No I won’t eat this potato, because it’s raw.
Congratulations you have discovered agriculture
Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.
Potatoes are next level though. Or the most basic level. 🤷🏻
I planted a bunch of red potato chunks in some tilled dirt. BAM! Quintupled what I put in with zero effort. Next time I’ll mound them up properly and get a year’s supply off 4 or 5.
If you can grow two things it should be potatoes and pumpkins. Just about a complete protein, and they’re easy to grow and store for long periods.
INFINITE FOOD GLITCH!!! UNPACHED 2025 [GONE WRONG]
Let’s see, next I’ll build a granary, worker then settler.
Go for animal husbandry first so you can see the horse resources
Just… one… more… turn…
If you want to get some actual potatoes from that you’re gonna need a much bigger pot. Also you want the potato to be like… six inches underground.
You arent aware how best vegetable aggressively grows, with or without your help?
Goddamn eldritch horror, but don’t worry. I still manage to kill them somehow. Like othera have said, you’re gonna need to cover it in soil.
LOL this pic was my inspiration
Buddy saw an incomprehensible eldritch terror covered in sightless eyes, yearning for life, stretching myriad limbs in every feasible direction and said I gotta have one
You can grow potatoes easily in five gallon buckets. Just put layer of soil layer of Cut up potatoes, layer of soil, layer of potatoes, and voila, free potatoes.
If you want to pollinate it to collect seed (debatable if that’s a good decision), use an electric toothbrush. The pollen needs the vibrations of a pollinator to be released.
Interesting, thank you!
Potatoes grow without dirt, nor water , by just laying around in the fridge. You put one in the soil and “didn’t expect it to grow”? 😂
Well, it’s not that I didn’t expect it to grow so much as I had zero expectations
I dropped a potato on the tile floor in my pantry and it ended up looking more aggressive than this. I’d say they like it rough. Pull it’s hair a little bit and talk offensively about it’s mother.
Lmao
Congratulations! Actions have consequences! Now you’re the proud parent of a baby potatoe plant!
Thank you! I am taking the advice of this thread and will ensure that it lives a happy and healthy long life.
You planted a potato. You had plans.
Plans to see what happened with the progress of time. I definitely had no plans involving any particular expectations
Also don’t plant any of the seeds these flowers may make. They could be poisonous.
Potatoes (and tomatoes, and I think eggplants) are nightshades, and we grow them by sticking them in the ground because new offshoots are clones.
Keep it as a flower, though, its neat.
Two low glycoalkaloid varieties are unlikely to create a high glycoalkaloid variety (and its unlikely to find a high glycoalkaloid variety outside of south America. But it’s possible. Like two short people having a tall child.
Also its probably sterile.
What are you talking about? Planting the seeds just produces true seed potatoes which wont look like the original potato since they are a product of hetero plant reproduction.
What did you expect? Kittens? A diamond?
Omg are kittens an option? :D
You’d need to plant a kitten for that. At least that’s what I’m concluding from our very small sample size, I’m not a scientist.
That will need repotting soon. Just don’t neglect your ear muffs.
for the mandrake??
Life, uh, finds a way.
Potatoes form underground but they can also flower and make fruit. The fruit looks like a little tomato. My advice is to not eat the fruit; it is toxic.
Also, it needs a way bigger pot to make more potatoes.
mmmm, tasty toxicity, yummy!
Potatoes, tomatoes and nightshade are all related species, yep. Tomato is the odd one out for not having poisonous fruit.
To be more specific, potatoes and tomatoes are nightshades. Eggplants, too.
Don’t forget peppers! Hot peppers are my favorite nightshade.
It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside
