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Old March 17, 2009   #8
Tom Wagner
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I would not cut where your red line indicates. I try to have about an oz of tuber flesh with the cut piece but sometimes even less than that. The tuber you have would be best cut into four pieces. The cut line should be as far away from the eyes not awake yet or the sprout present. Otherwise the tuber flesh may dry back and damage the sprouting potential.

In some of those pieces you will have more than one eye but one is all you really need. Dust with lime after you cut, and plant immediately or after a few days.

If you don't break the sprouts off, those pieces will have plants emerging faster than those cuts with barely sprouting eyes.
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