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.
If you planted a potato expecting it not to grow, you’ve clearly never had a potato in your pantry start sprouting.
It wasn’t so much that I didn’t expect it to grow, as I had zero expectations, and so my expectations were surpassed :)
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.
Congratulations you have discovered agriculture
INFINITE FOOD GLITCH!!! UNPACHED 2025 [GONE WRONG]
Let’s see, next I’ll build a granary, worker then settler.
Just… one… more… turn…
Go for animal husbandry first so you can see the horse resources
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.
just let it be
I’m not a potatologist, but it seems like it should be fine to let it grow in there for a couple more weeks. It’s happy there, and that’s the main thing.
Then transplant it to a big bin/pot/raised bed or the ground outside. If it’s root bound just cut down on the sides of the root tangle and detangle them a bit before planting. Put a big clear plastic tub/tote over it at night if it will be frosty.
wtf do you mean, you fucking planted it xD of course it growing was your intention, unless you didn’t know that plants grow when planted, which I wouldn’t believe you even if you said it.
I mean, I barely planted it. I just tossed it into some dirt and here we are. I had no Step 2
Yeah, potatoes don’t give a flying fuck. Literally just drop them on the ground and half ass cover them in straw and they’ll grow.
Been a while since I kept a garden but if I remember right you have to keep piling dirt on top (after transplanting of course). I put mine in the ground then set a cardboard box around it, adding dirt inside the box as it grew. The dirt needs to be loaded and loose for the potatoes to grow. Maybe this method was just to make harvesting easier. I recall something about the potatoes being toxic if they grew in sunlight?
I’m seeing elsewhere in the thread that it’s the potato fruit that’s toxic; the taters themselves remain delicious (once grown)
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.
I am curious what your intentions were for a potato that you planted that wasn’t supposed to grow?
I ask because it might help formulate a plan if we can determine your intentions and expectations.
Maybe they watched The Martian and wanted to test the scientific accuracy.
This raises even more questions! Did they poo in that pot? And still, if they didn’t intend for it to grow, why did they put it in soil‽
I saw a picture of a potato Eldrich horror (posted elsewhere in this thread) and figured I should give the potato a home
A potato is much happier as vodka as indicated by common potato lifecycle charts.
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.
Get a 5 gallon bucket, put a few inches of dirt in the bottom, and transplant your potato plant into it. When there is no chance of frost, stick it outside in a sunny spot. As it grows higher, keep adding more soil, until it reaches the top.
In the fall, when it starts getting cool, dump it out and sift through the dirt for the spuds.
That will need repotting soon. Just don’t neglect your ear muffs.
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.
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
