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.
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
Congratulations you have discovered agriculture
Let’s see, next I’ll build a granary, worker then settler.
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.
Congratulations! Actions have consequences! Now you’re the proud parent of a baby potatoe plant!
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”? 😂
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.
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.
mmmm, tasty toxicity, yummy!
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‽
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
I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.
The potatoe part isnt going to get bigger…
It’s shriveling up and dying so it’s using all its stored energy in a last dying grasp for survival…
You need to fully bury it, or chop off the bits where it grew sprouts and store it like a regular one till you plant it. Neither way is guaranteed, but they’re both better chances than exposed like that.
Ah, appreciate that
So if I bury it in deeper dirt, should be good to go?
Probably.
I mean, you should take the time to Google it if you want it to turn out well.
But in general bury a tuber and it’ll grow. It’s basically just a root that stores crazy amounts of energy. They all evolved to have that part buried underground.
