Soft seed spuds ok?

Sgt Pepper 64

So I treated myself to some €1.49 seed spuds from dealz, but they are all soft and chitted already!

would they grow ok?

redser7

Yeah they should be fine. So long as they are certified virus free of course.

My Potatoes

What are the sprouts like? Are they short and stumpy, green/purple in colour? If so, they'll be fine. If they are long and straggly, clear/white in colour, you may have problems.
Regarding diseases, I assume they're certified with EC1/EC2/EC3?

Sgt Pepper 64

My Potatoes wrote: »

What are the sprouts like? Are they short and stumpy, green/purple in colour? If so, they'll be fine. If they are long and straggly, clear/white in colour, you may have problems.
Regarding diseases, I assume they're certified with EC1/EC2/EC3?

hhhmmmmmm. they are the latter! Have to check but they come in a pack

redser7

They'll be fine. You can break the long chits off and let new ones grow or just plant them. Chitting is usually only done for earlies to try get an even earlier crop, or maybe to control the number of haulms and therefore the size and number of resulting tubers.
Some people bury the seed carefully with those long chits and swear it works very well for them.
To be honest I'd just bung them in with sufficient food. It's usually pests and disease that makes the big difference between success and failure.

My Potatoes

In that case handle them with care. Leave them in a cold room with daylight, such as a shed. They may turn green and thrive.