#potato plant

[ryanscabinlife]

It’s my first time seeing potato flowers irl. They’re kinda pretty. Apparently it’s a sign that the plant is mature enough to start forming and producing tubers 🥔

6-Jul-2023

#potato #potato plant #gardening #garden #gardenblr #my garden #vegetable garden #garden blog #gardencore #original post #plant community #plant blog #crop #vegetables

[pixierainbows]

potato flowers !!!

#original photography #washington #seattle #pixie garden #potato plant #flowers #potato #garden

[dougdimmadodo]

Potato Plant (Solanum tuberosum)

Family: Nightshade Family (Solanaceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Originating from temperate regions of South America and southern North America, Potato Plants are now cultivated worldwide in enormous numbers (so much so that they are the 4th most important plant in achieving human food security, with over 300 million tons being produced each year.) The part of the Potato Plant that humans (as well as numerous non-human animals, including peccaries, feral pigs, rodents and deer) eat are its tubers, which are bundles of nutrients that the plant produces from offshoots of its roots during the warmer, wetter, sunnier months to sustain it throughout the winter and facilitate rapid growth during its reproductive/blooming season, which typically occurs during the mid-summer. As with many members of the nightshade family the leaves and stems of this species are poisonous, but the tubers are non-toxic when underground and only become poisonous when exposed to sunlight, with exposure to light triggering a chemical defence in which large amounts of toxic chemicals called glycoalkaloids are produced in the tuber’s skin, deterring animals that have succeeded in digging up a tuber from attempting to access other tubers and potentially damaging the roots in the process. It is because of this defensive response that uncooked potatoes may cause food poisoning if eaten in sufficient quantities – cooking denatures the glycoalkaloids and leaves the potatoes safe to eat. Potato Plants are capable of reproducing both asexually through genetically identical offshoots of their roots and sexually through the production of flowers, which range from white to purple in colour and are “perfect flowers”, meaning that a single flower is capable of both producing pollen to fertilize seeds and receiving pollen to begin developing seeds of its own. In the wild Potato Plant flowers are pollinated by small insects (particularly bumblebees), and once pollinated they develop into small fruits resembling tiny green tomatoes which are toxic to mammals but can be safely eaten by birds, allowing the seeds within them to be spread. Archaeological evidence suggests that humans have been farming Potato Plants for their tubers for some 8,000 years, with the earliest evidence of cultivation coming from what is now Peru and Bolivia.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/53858-Solanum-tuberosum

#Potato plant #potato #potatoes #NOT zoology this time #biology #botany #plant #plants #wildlife #south american wildlife #north american wildlife #cultivated plants

[theblasianwitch]

So I learned potatoes are really easy to grow. Just take a potato and put it into the ground.

I also learned that if the pot is not big enough, when the plant grows to a certain point it dies... so yeah I'm gonna try again with potatoes after I have the money to get bigger pots 👍

RIP little potato plant. I shall treat your brethren better and make you proud

September 16 ~ October 30, 2022

#the blasian witch #witch diary #green witch #potato #potato plant

[autistic-octopus-witch]

Sooooo good news we have potatoes, bad news the sprouts in the radish pots were something else from contaminated soil. So we have potatoes but not radish....

#gardening #containergarden #potato #the octopus' garden #learning to grow #potato plant #self sufficient living

[willoftrees]

one of our potato plants has sprouted from a lil seed potato, and the stonecrop is starting to look healthy! these were planted on the property a few months ago~

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#plants #gardening #stonecrop #potato plant

[forever-growing-garden]

The potato bucket is absolutely exploding with plants

#potato #garden #container garden #potato plant #they're so beautiful

[controlsfortheheart]

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#beige brick exterior #formal backyard ideas #potato plant #natural stone pavers #patio wall ideas #formal backyard #purple leaves

[kazuos]

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#potato plant #formal backyard landscaping #formal patio #front yard #patio wall ideas #decorative patio wall #striped awnings

[ryanscabinlife]

The taters I posted a month back are now in the ground. Can’t wait how they turn out.

30-Apr-2023

#potatoes #potato plant #garden 2023 #garden #gardening #cabincore

[bridoesotherjunk]

the gardening is going well so far this year

#Garden #Gardening #Plants #Carrots #Tomato #Potato plant #Potato

[hisinfernalmajesty666]

I planted a potato on the 19th April, not really knowing what to expect. 60-100 days is the average time to harvest. I pulled these out today at 88 days. The leaves had started turning yellow earlier this week which is a sign they're ready. I'm quite pleased with my results!

#potato #potatoes #potato plant #harvest #growyourown #natural #organic #garden #gardening #thoughts #musings #journal

[canisalbus]

My sibling couldn't remember Machete's name and kept calling him Hatchet, so then we started imagining Machete's distant cousin from the countryside. Hatchet does not understand politics nor does he have an opinion on religion, all Hatchet knows is potatoes and chickens. And dirt.

Hatchet sounds like a stand up guy.

#Hatchet #he's very proud of his chickens #and grows so many potatoes he keeps trying to give them away #if you look at him for two seconds he will ask if you'd like a plastic bag of potatoes to take home #answered #anonymous #if you don't want this many potatoes you should plant less potatoes they say #but it does little to slow Hatchet down

[crudlynaturephotos]

#potato plant #solanum tuberosum #garden #van nuys

[autistic-octopus-witch]

Long time no post but the potato was harvested and we only got one spider. Not sure what happened there. Good news is our cherry tomatoes are coming in strong and my basil has risen from the dead.

I finally got my witchcraft setup set up at our family shop and its helped me de stress a lot.

#gardening #learning to grow #tomatoes #basil #potato plant #update #the octopus garden

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

potato is love, potato is life- local hell woman gives potato to her angelic future wife

Charlie: “I don’t think I should be allowed to interact with women ever again.”

Husk: “Is this about Vaggie giggling over a fucking potato earlier-”

Charlie: “OH IT’S ABOUT THE POTATO ALL RIGHT! WHY THE FUCK DOES THE PHRASE ‘apple of my eye’ EVEN EXIST IN THE SAME UNIVERSE WHERE ‘earth apple’ IS ANOTHER WORD FOR POTATO??? WHY DO PEOPLE CALL THE STUPID SPROUTY THINGS ON POTATOES ‘eyes’????? CREATION IS STUPID! IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE!!”

Husk: “Did you fucking give her the potato.”

Charlie: (slumping) “I was trying to be romantic-!”

Husk: “Did you call HER your potato.”

Charlie: “THE POTATO OF MY HEART! The tuber of my root sprout!”

Husk: “Oh fuck. Shit, that’s. That’s terrible. You really shouldn’t fucking talk to women anymore.”

Charlie: (sobbing) “I WAS TRYING!!! TO BE SWEET!!!!!”

Angel Dust: “-hey gays m’kay, real fucked up question for ya both but- anyone know why Vag G-string is makin’ soppy doe eyes at an uncooked tater tot?”

Husk: “It’s because she’s almost as much of fucking fail loser as her girlfriend, is why.”

Charlie: (sniffs) “She. You think she likes it…?”

Angel Dust: “Charlie chip, she’s starin’ at the damn thing like it’s her first born child.”

Charlie: “Oh…”

Charlie: “…”

Charlie: “Unholy shit…. I am so GOOD with women-”

Husk: “No. No you’re fucking not. It’s just her.”

Charlie: “Well she’s the only one who counts so that’s perfect!”

Angel Dust: “Oh please don’ tell me you gave her the potato-”

Charlie: “BE RIGHT BACK IM GONNA GO GET HER ANOTHER ONE!!!”

Husk: “NO-!”

#hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #chaggie #vaggie #husk hazbin hotel #angel dust hazbin hotel #incorrect quotes #vaggie planting the potato in large vase and becoming Very Protective of it #its corner of the hotel is blocked off by caution tape #and death threats #she does a diving roll to save it the next time someone wrecks the hotel #for a week afterwards the potted potato plant lives in her and charlie's bed room in BED with them #and at that point charlie isn't so sure about this anymore #but it's too late #vaggie takes a thousand pics of the first sprout #she starts a photo album for it #the damn potato plant is now the apple of vaggie's eye #and charlie cant even be annoyed bc it's literally a symbol of her love for vaggie #so she also has to be paranoid over it and check it three times a day #a family can be a demon princess #her fallen angel gf #and their first ever houseplant <3