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You arent aware how best vegetable aggressively grows, with or without your help?

Goddamn eldritch horror, but don't worry. I still manage to kill them somehow. Like othera have said, you're gonna need to cover it in soil.

Potatoes form underground but they can also flower and make fruit. The fruit looks like a little tomato. My advice is to not eat the fruit; it is toxic.

Also, it needs a way bigger pot to make more potatoes.

Congratulations you have discovered agriculture

I am curious what your intentions were for a potato that you planted that wasn't supposed to grow?

I ask because it might help formulate a plan if we can determine your intentions and expectations.

Congratulations! Actions have consequences! Now you're the proud parent of a baby potatoe plant!

Potatoes grow without dirt, nor water , by just laying around in the fridge. You put one in the soil and "didn't expect it to grow"? 😂

If you planted a potato expecting it not to grow, you've clearly never had a potato in your pantry start sprouting.

What did you expect? Kittens? A diamond?

Get a 5 gallon bucket, put a few inches of dirt in the bottom, and transplant your potato plant into it. When there is no chance of frost, stick it outside in a sunny spot. As it grows higher, keep adding more soil, until it reaches the top.

In the fall, when it starts getting cool, dump it out and sift through the dirt for the spuds.

I have a feeling this thing will be too big in a week.

The potatoe part isnt going to get bigger...

It's shriveling up and dying so it's using all its stored energy in a last dying grasp for survival...

You need to fully bury it, or chop off the bits where it grew sprouts and store it like a regular one till you plant it. Neither way is guaranteed, but they're both better chances than exposed like that.

Life, uh, finds a way.

I dropped a potato on the tile floor in my pantry and it ended up looking more aggressive than this. I'd say they like it rough. Pull it's hair a little bit and talk offensively about it's mother.

If you want to get some actual potatoes from that you're gonna need a much bigger pot. Also you want the potato to be like... six inches underground.

You can grow potatoes easily in five gallon buckets. Just put layer of soil layer of Cut up potatoes, layer of soil, layer of potatoes, and voila, free potatoes.

It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside

I'm not a potatologist, but it seems like it should be fine to let it grow in there for a couple more weeks. It's happy there, and that's the main thing.

Then transplant it to a big bin/pot/raised bed or the ground outside. If it's root bound just cut down on the sides of the root tangle and detangle them a bit before planting. Put a big clear plastic tub/tote over it at night if it will be frosty.

That will need repotting soon. Just don't neglect your ear muffs.

Been a while since I kept a garden but if I remember right you have to keep piling dirt on top (after transplanting of course). I put mine in the ground then set a cardboard box around it, adding dirt inside the box as it grew. The dirt needs to be loaded and loose for the potatoes to grow. Maybe this method was just to make harvesting easier. I recall something about the potatoes being toxic if they grew in sunlight?

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If you want to pollinate it to collect seed (debatable if that's a good decision), use an electric toothbrush. The pollen needs the vibrations of a pollinator to be released.

You planted a potato. You had plans.

just let it be

wtf do you mean, you fucking planted it xD of course it growing was your intention, unless you didn't know that plants grow when planted, which I wouldn't believe you even if you said it.