How to Chit Seed Potatoes
- Place the seed in an egg tray.
The scar-side (point where the tuber was attached to parent plant) down, with rose uppermost.
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- The majority of eyes (buds) will be around the rose, and so pointing upwards.
- Place the tray is on a north-facing, light, frost free window sill.
- The chits (shoots) need to grow slowly.
- The light keeps the shoots short, fat and green.
- 4 degrees Celsius is ideal, but the temperature should not go above 10 degrees, neither should it reach freezing.
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