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Re: potato blossom question

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In potatoes the blooms are mainly a sign that the plant is becoming mature
and the tubers have formed.  When the plant is in full bloom the tubers are
large enough to scrabble out a few for new potatoes, but the ones to dig and
store aren't ready until the plant starts to die back, putting it's reserves
all into the tubers. Before bloom the tubers are only just forming and are
too small to use most of the time.
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>From: Vasha Rosenblum <vashan@mindspring.com>
>To: sqft@listbot.com
>Subject: potato blossom question
>Date: Sat, Jul 10, 1999, 8:11 AM
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>I was telling my husband about all the potato growing posts and we got to
>thinking about the blossom-fruit sequence.  For tomatoes, squash, beans it
>has to bloom and get fertilized before it forms.  For root crops, radish,
>carrot, beets, the edible part forms before it blooms - after bloom, too
>late to eat!  Potatoes are a root crop.  What does the bloom have to do with
>formation of the vegetable and what does it tell us about the quality of
>what's underground?  Anybody know?  Not sure how to look that up.
>
>Vasha
>zone 7/8 B'ham, AL
>
>
>
>Vasha Rosenblum
>South Shades Crest School
>3770 S. Shades Crest Road
>Hoover, AL 35244
>
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