elkhound
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Post by elkhound on Sept 19, 2020 7:58:45 GMT -5
a field report...i got a few makah ozette potatoes from a friend and planted them out.i planted 12 of them and i harvested these. theres 50-60 counting everything down to the marble size ones.got them out late and it got brutally hot. i wasnt expecting much at all in the heat. but they done ok.i will get these out early next season and i cant wait to see what they produce and the size they can get to. i seen a few pictures on net showing some pretty large ones out in PNW area. but anyway probably get at least 50 hills planted maybe more from these if all goes well.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 25, 2020 21:45:37 GMT -5
That will be a lot of potatoes.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 26, 2020 10:04:03 GMT -5
Happy to see someone else growing them. 50 hills next year? I envy you! Wish that I had room for that many. I've had them for about 15 tears and been spreading them around the country. They do seem to be temperamental and won't just grow under any conditions. Soil has to be rich and loose. Several years ago I planted them in almost pure municipal compost and got tubers 6" long and 2" thick. Last year was a fair one in my home potato patch. They had to find a new space this year and the 10 or so plants barely returned enough to plant back next year. They'll get the same spot as last year but already have spread horse manure at the rate of one gallon per foot on that row and will probably get the leftover used manure when the containers are redone. That will be to make a wider and deeper mounded row. The stolons will extend out as much as a foot from the plant so they need an extra-wide row. Then you will get long tubers instead of stubby round ones.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2020 11:56:53 GMT -5
I thought Ozette was a fingerling potato? Those look like full sized ones to me, but pictures ( and my memory, LOL) can be hard to tell.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 26, 2020 13:47:50 GMT -5
Most of Elkhound's look like fingerling tubers which haven't fully developed. There will always be a mix of larger oblong tubers and smaller round ones. Eat the long ones and plant the small ones back.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2020 16:13:49 GMT -5
Okay, hard for me to tell from the pictures, so thank you as I was confused, <smile>., my normal state.
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elkhound
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Post by elkhound on Sept 26, 2020 21:08:50 GMT -5
yes the potatoes grew only a short period. it was blistering hot at times here and just scorching the garden.makes me want to buy a military parachute and put over entire small garden. yep if all goes well i will plant all of these out in spring time. going for 50 hills of these and 150 red french fingerling and 150 purple fingerling and then rest in kennebecs and a few red pontiacs. i dug the 20 foot row of pinto gold in big garden...hardly a double handful and none as large as a quarter.grew them in both gardens this year and neither spot produced much at all.they may be on the out going list now.
this only 3rd year growing these fingerlings..i grew a small garden full years ago of what i think was russian fingerlings not real sure. but harvest was loader bucket full.i dont have those any longer.
the red french i really like and my experience so far with them they keep real good.
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elkhound
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Post by elkhound on Sept 26, 2020 21:16:55 GMT -5
looked in my old pics and from what can tell this was in 2008. a member at HT sent me a start of these and i grew them out for seed and next year put out a little garden with just these. seems like there was 4 -30ft rows.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 27, 2020 8:07:01 GMT -5
If it's any consolation, Pinto Gold was a flop with me, too. Grew it twice and although they were a nice little roaster, production was just not worth the effort.
For Ozette, best year I had was when I planted like a Native American would, in mounds. About 5 gallons of horse manure was roughly worked into about a 3' wide circle. Soil was pulled up over that to depth of about 10". Five seed pieces were set just above the manure at about 8". Got a lot of 5" tubers out of that.
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Post by ponyexpress on Oct 1, 2020 9:57:53 GMT -5
If it's any consolation, Pinto Gold was a flop with me, too. Grew it twice and although they were a nice little roaster, production was just not worth the effort. I grew Pinto Gold for the first time last year and had a really nice crop. It's my favorite potato for taste and production. Second favorite is Ama Rosa. I also grow Papa Cacho, Russian Banana, and Purple Peruvian. I have not harvested them this year as the leaves have not turned brown yet.
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Post by elkhound on Jul 19, 2021 1:33:00 GMT -5
well makah potatoes for 2021 died back. for whatever reason they just didnt grow this year. rain was short early on..but i watered them later on ..soo..it seemed to me they just dont like my heat and humidity..plus something ate a bunch of holes in leaf...flea bettles..i sprayed but they just never looked good...to be fair no potatoes looked good in that garden. i will put out next spring in better spot with a tad of shade and see what happens. 35 hills was quarter bushel.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 19, 2021 9:20:59 GMT -5
Better luck next year, elkhound. Hope some of your other crops do well to make up for the potatoes.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 19, 2021 10:00:05 GMT -5
Don't understand the small round tubers. Ive had a few round ones but generally even small tubers were long. Lots of things went wrong last year with potato beetles being the main one but still had only long tubers to plant back. My soil is so loose that no digging is needed to harvest, just pull it back. 15 hill here this year and foliage looks good. Going to be awhile before seeing what's going on underground.
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Post by elkhound on Aug 31, 2021 16:45:12 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, no worries on having taters to eat. the big garden has lots and it seems to have produced a record crop. kennebecs i dug so far have been fantastic. first i dug i filled half bushel in 19 feet of rw and next half bushel i dug done it in 15 feet. i plan on growing these makah in the big garden next season if nothing happens. kennebecs
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Post by paquebot on Aug 31, 2021 19:30:18 GMT -5
My Ozettes are still a few weeks away from harvest. They have probably made about all of the tuber growth but vines are still green.I generally wait until the vines have nearly died back before digging. Same is going on with the Clancys which seemed to go on forever with blooming. Poking around a bit, looks like some decent tubers from them.
Martin
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 3, 2021 7:37:56 GMT -5
That's good to hear, elkhound. Glad to see that picture of your pretty Kennebecs!
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Post by paquebot on Sept 8, 2021 13:37:53 GMT -5
Dug the Ozette and really happy. There are tubers up to almost 8" long There were about a dozen plants. Yes, plants, not hills. Only pieces with single eyes were planted so the large tubers were the result of plants with no competition. As soon as a friend visits with her camera, we can get them recorded visually.
Martin
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