Pull Sprouts: 1 Potato Peel, 200 Plants
Channel: Stoned Ape Farmer
Date: 2021-04-15

Want to know how to use potato peels to grow as many plants as you could ever need? This permaculture potato technique, referred to as either the pull sprout method or sprout jacking, is a rapid propagation approach that some potato breeders have used to turn single tubers into as many as 200 plants, thus multiplying their rare varieties of spuds. I combine this with the Great Depression era method to grow potato peels to conserve the tuber for food, as well as a simple DIY self-watering planter which makes this,  hands down, the easiest way to produce a ton of potatoes. Stay tuned for how I use this technique to rapidly propagate lost Incan crops like oca, mashua, and ulluco.

What other unique propagation techniques do you know about?

📄 CONTENTS 📄
0:00 Intro
0:19 What are pull sprouts?
1:01 Why does it work?
1:17 Traditional method
1:27 Growing from peels
1:46 DIY self-watering planter
1:57 Parts list
2:42 Building the planter
3:29 Drainage addendum
3:51 Watering instructions
4:06 Feat. Binging With Babish
5:45 Planting the peels
6:11 Being extra
6:22 The sprouts
6:43 On planting outside
6:51 Potting up
7:16 Rooting cuttings
7:34 A 3rd propagation technique
7:52 Tour of planting area
7:56 Andean potato breeding (TPS)
8:06 The planting
8:21 Planting sprouts
8:56 Planting transplants
9:47 Pull sprout benefits
9:52 Yields and working with oca, mashua, and ulluco

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