I saved a couple dozen potatoes from my harvest last year, and I placed them inside paper bags, and then inside a cardboard box. I placed them in the basement in a very dark spot last year in August.
You can imagine my surprise today when I uncovered them to find such a huge length of tuber tentacles coming out from them. Each potato has 4-5 tentacles and they range from 2 feet long to 3 feet long.
I have never had to deal with such length in the sprouts... but all the seed potatoes I've had before were from the store, not from my own harvest. So I am wondering, should I cut any of these sprouts down to size, should I still plant them this year, and if so, we are still in 20-30 (Fahrenheit) weather, so is it okay for me to wait another 3 weeks or so to plant these octopus potatoes.
I would greatly appreciate your knowledge and expertise for this dilemma!
-John
