Poorly potato plant

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JonO

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 119
Location: South Birmingham

Posted: Sat May 14, 05 4:12 pm Post subject: Poorly potato plant
Anyone got any idea of that might be up with my potato plant ? The rest of them look fine just this one. My dad thought maybe frost ? Jon.

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Sat May 14, 05 5:12 pm Post subject:
If leaves full of holes with brown spots - looks nearly like that! - could be caspid bug. Brown patches on leaves poss blight. Pale green or yellow leaves could be cyst eel worm. Yours looks like a combination of all 3!

moogie

Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 525
Location: Near Bridgend

Posted: Sat May 14, 05 5:57 pm Post subject:
If the rest look ok I'd dig it up and get it away from them as quickly as possible to be on the safe side.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat May 14, 05 8:05 pm Post subject:
Frost damage! Potatoes are prone to that sort of damage after it gets down to 2-3°C which we've had down here for several days. The plants should recover and grow ok if we don't get much more frost.

gavin

Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 93
Location: Leeds, W Yorks

Posted: Sun May 15, 05 9:14 am Post subject:
Yup - frost damage; there's a few like that on our site . All best - Gavin

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun May 15, 05 10:14 am Post subject:
Does it stop them growing? - my spuds have yet to appear, except one. They went in quite late, but I was expecting them to grow faster cos it was warmer!

gavin

Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: Leeds, W Yorks

Posted: Sun May 15, 05 10:30 am Post subject:
No, it won't stop the plant growing - it should recover and carry on growing; it'll just be a bit slower. All best - Gavin

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sun May 15, 05 10:47 am Post subject:
Yeah, looks like frost damage. A bit of cold and sometimes wind with it seems to do that. I'd never had it on spuds till this year, and lots of mine now have it.

JonO

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 119
Location: South Birmingham

Posted: Tue May 17, 05 8:40 pm Post subject:
Cheers for the advice, looks like I need to do more earthing up in future ! Thanks again.

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