Do you HAVE to let the seed scab over before planting or do you plant them right after cutting? Can't say I ever let them scab and always grow good taters

Don't much matter, but Good Friday was weeks ago.

No, but it helps to drop them into a bag of powdered sulfur if you don't to help hold off stuff long enough for them to sprout good. Matter of fact sulfur in general is good for taters.

cut them thin and let them dry a few days, plant them with a bunch of moisture in them and rain sets in they may rot in the ground.

I've got grocery store bought Russet, Amish auction bought Red Gold and 3 varieties of treated, feed store potatoes, probably from Rupp, planted this year and all are doing well. I put the first potatoes out in February, because they were sprouting to much and I thought they would rot before Spring. The long sprouts died back from the cold, but the potatoes had enough energy to successfully resprout. I cut the potatoes and put the pieces, eyes up straight in the dirt.

Keith

Some folks let them scab over before planting. I know people who rinse them in diluted bleach before planting. I just cut them, making sure each cutting has at least two eyes. Smaller seed potatoes get planted whole. My Grandfather told me not to cut you plantings too small, as the growing sprouts need to feed off the cutting.

Egg sized, at least two eyes. Ideally already starting to sprout or green up.

no but drying the cut side is supposed to help keep them from rotting in the ground , when cold weather planting or having as many fungal issues the powdered sulfur as I understand it does the same thing much faster.

good Friday there was still a frost in the ground

they will grow fine now , they are not a long season crop

Where in Sam Hill does a person find powdered sulphur!?
Thanks for the answers.

Farm and feed stores sell powdered sulphur.

Keith

Potatoes need acidic ground. Sulfur would help lower the PH of the soil. You shouldn’t use wood ash in your potato patch. Wood ash will raise the soil’s PH, and potatoes will get scabby in ash enriched soils. Unless the soil is super low PH, never add lime when planting potatoes.

Suffer does lower ph, but lower ph in more acidic, and wood ash will raise ph wich is more alkaline. 7being neutral. And yes taters like slightly acidic soil best.

We used to always use powdered rock phosphate to cauterize the cuts. Sulfur would be fine too no doubt. Advantage with the rock phosphate is they get a little help with phosphorus to get good root growth. BTW, you can use wood ash and manure when planting spuds with no scab issues if you lay it down just below the seed potato. All tuber production is above the seed piece.