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Potato Plants

tonylynchtonylynch Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
Hi,
My first season growing potatoes and would like some advice on the health of my potato plants . The stem of some of the plants has a dark green/brown colour on them . I've sprayed the plants for blight last week and would like to know if this is blight or some other disease, the potato plants  otherwise seem healthy.


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They look perfectly healthy to me. I thing thats normal colouration … some potatoes have white flowers and white skins, some have purple flowers and the potato skins can have varying amounts of reddish/purplish colour. This colouring is often echoed in the colour of the stems. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Agree with @Dovefromabove - your plants look fine.
    I'd just add that indiscriminate spraying is not really a good idea ( particularly on something you want to eat ).
    Unless you know what you are spraying against - in your case nothing - it is pretty pointless as well as a waste of time/effort/money.
    Enjoy your potatoes :)
  • tonylynchtonylynch Posts: 2
    philippasmith2 said:
    I'd just add that indiscriminate spraying is not really a good idea ( particularly on something you want to eat ).
    Unless you know what you are spraying against - in your case nothing - it is pretty pointless as well as a waste of time/effort/money.
    Enjoy your potatoes :)
    I sprayed them against blight .The weather has been humid of late and we've had blight forecasted here in Ireland recently.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    I admit I don't have any knowledge about a spray which will actually prevent blight.  :)
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Blight would attack the leaves first,  they quickly go brown black and wilt.  It takes time to get to the stems, sometimes you can save a plant by taking off affected leaves,  if it hasn't reached the stems.  
    AB Still learning

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