Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

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Re: Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

Post by Ontario Chick » Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:26 pm

Lucky you, we have had a little bit of a potato tragedy here, mine arrived today and although the box was dry the bags and the potatoes were wet, which makes me think they have frozen sometime during their travels.
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Re: Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

Post by WLLady » Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:50 am

oh no! okay....get them dried off as best you can, and store them at room temp for a couple days to dry.....if they don't start to get brown sunken spots hopefully they'll be okay! if they do start getting sunken spots you might be able to cut them off and plant the "not mushing" part and see if it will grow....and then you'll have container potatoes.....
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Post by Ontario Chick » Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:57 am

I have been treating them like sick babies, on layers of paper towels replaced hourly, but this is 24 hours later and they are still oozing so I am not holding much hope, they must have been frozen solid at some point in their travels. :(
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Re: Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

Post by kenya » Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:55 pm

Oh thats too bad, hope some survive.
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Post by Ontario Chick » Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:07 am

I am afraid they are going bad in front of my eyes, 48 hours later it is pretty obvious they were too damaged and will just rot now.
What a disappointment.
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Post by Killerbunny » Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:52 am

Oh what a shame, they look like they'd have been lovely.
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Re: Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

Post by Ontario Chick » Thu Nov 30, 2017 12:59 pm

I must say I feel a bit stupid now, it simply didn't occur to me that it's too late in the year to be ordering seed potatoes,
Checking some seed potato companies it appears to be a common knowledge that shipping in cold weather isn't a good idea.
Learn something every day, but this was a very expensive lesson.

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– Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes
For instance, shipping 1kg of potatoes can cost between $8-$10, shipping cost on a full box can be as low as $1.9/kg. We are able to pack up to 29kg in ... allow 5-7 days for delivery. We will delay shipments due to cold weather as Canada Post can not guarantee the packages will not be exposed to freezing temperatures.
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Post by kenya » Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:29 am

Yes and I can believe canada post is none too careful.
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Post by WLLady » Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:41 pm

i have to admit i checked out the weather forecast here for the 5 days prior to shipping in case they got held up somewhere...we were up over freezing, so lucky down here....sorry it does look like they are just liquifying. so sorry OC!
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Re: Our last GREAT potato for this season, a WINNER!

Post by Farrier1987 » Fri May 25, 2018 12:08 pm

Well the seed potatoes we got of this variety are in the ground. We shall see what we get. I stored them with the rest of my own seed potatoes over the winter, and when cutting to plant, these were still fairly hard, not soft and wizened.

I planted some late March which will get evaluated as new potatoes, and some the 24 May, that I expect to be keepers. Shall maybe report in late summer how they yield, taste etc.
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