Flowers on a potato plant indicate that its tubers (the edible part of the plant that grows underground) are starting to form. After you see flowers form on your potato plant, you know that the plant is doing well, and that it is getting closer to harvest time.
Should you remove flowers from sweet potatoes?
How to Trim Potato Plants. To trim your edible potato plants, pinch off the blossoms as soon as they appear on the plant, or snip them off with shears. Blossoms are an indicator that the plant is mature and small tubers are formed. Removing the flowers removes the competition and fosters larger, healthier potatoes.
How long after flowering are sweet potatoes ready?
You can harvest sweet potatoes as soon as they reach a usable size, which takes at least three months. Harvest a few tubers to see if they're large enough before digging the entire patch.
What to Do When potatoes are flowering?
If your potato blossoms turned into tomatoes, you can try growing plants from the seeds. Potato fruits have seeds inside just like any berry. You can cut open the berries and remove the seeds to plant. However, the seeded potatoes take longer to produce a plant than those planted from tubers.
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