Topic: seed potatoes soft & wrinkled

[adrianhumph]

 Hi all, :D
              some of my pentland javelin first earlies are quite soft & wrinkled  :o no tittering at the back ::)  they seem to have chitted ok , but will they GROW  ??? it seems that it is mostly the small ones that are like this, any ideas at all ???

                                                   Adrian.

[Mrs Ava]

They will be fine.

[kenkew]

If EJ say's they'll be OK...they wouldn't dare be anything else. (Mine are the same, what's wrong with soft and wrinkly anyway?)

[Mrs Ava]

what happens to chaps of a certain age huh.......... ;D ;D ;D ;D

[tim]

Why is it that some years they do that & others - like this year - they're all fine.

As said, they'll grow!   At 6'4" ,I trust that I won't, wrinkles or no. We haven't a sound beam left in the house!

[johcharly]

mine are soft and wrinkly and they don't seem to be growing very much.... oops  :-[ that sounds even worse!

[kenkew]

Nothing wrong with wrinkly....In fact even tho' I have a few mesmerising ones I can still hold my own; Like today, had a game of badmington against two ladies, I've only played 3 times to date, these two must have been playing for years, no, honest....I beat 'em easily. I know they have lots of experience, one was 85 and the other was 89....Uh! I still beat 'em!!

[chrispea27]

Good luck to KenKew holding his own??????

[fred]

Mine are also wrinkled but the sprouts are still less than 1cm

I read that they should grow to an inch is this correct

 :-  May I also point out that I do not confuse an inch and a centimeter outside the bedroom

[kenkew]

I'm told bigger is better bur I'm not convinced. It's what you do with 'em, eh?

[Mrs Ava]

You can always spray your wrinklies with water to try and plump them up.  ;D

[Merry Tiller]

You really shouldn't get stressed about this kind of thing, wrinkled or smooth, 1cm or 1 inch, just go with it, chill

[philcooper]

EJ's right about spraying to plump them up, if you add a bit of seaweed extract to the water they'll do even better

Phil