Topic: Colour of potato shoots

[sunflower]

I was reading some of the postings on the bbc message board(that will teach me to look else where!) & they were talking bout the colour of the shoots on chitting potatos. Now i`m worried mine arn`t normal :-\. They`re a dark greeny/brown with little stubby roots forming. Please tell me that is normal ???.

[Hugh_Jones]

If you ask a number of people to define precisely any colour, you will get just as many slightly different descriptions. Prompted by your enquiry I examined one of my (very healthy) Nadine shoots under a magnifying glass, and detected several shades of green, with touches of red and brown and purple.  What you have described sounds perfectly o.k. to me.

You shouldn`t take any notice of all you see or hear on the BBC - it`s even worse than the newspapers.

[Ceri]

When mine first arrived in Jan from Chase Organics, some of them had long whitly spindly shoots - I asked on this board and was advised to get rid of these.  I did so and they've now got lots of lovely stubbly shoots - some green, some purple, and some really dark brown - I have give different types and they all have slightly different colours.  I saw that thread too - if it was the one where the person was advised the seeds had been frost damaged?  

[Mrs Ava]

I have green shoots, purple shoots, red shoots and kinda browny greeny reddy purply shoots.  I have heard you can get talc from the chemist for such problems  ;D ;) :P ;D

[tim]

My red pots' shoots are purply-red; the white ones are blacky-green to green. Does that help??

We won't confuse the issue with the triffids I showed earlier - they're planted! = Tim

[sunflower]

 ;D my mind is at rest thank youxxx