The real impact of the discovery of the America's delayed by a century?

If the French will have begin potatoes planting in 1630-1650 as in Germany for example, Louis XIV will be able to win all his wars without any problems, and the Grande Nation will be a reality in Louis XIV times...

Well, they did. But as corn, it was reserved for cattle (there were rural people, in the generation right before mine, that still mocked townfolk for eating corn, while everyone knew it was for chicken)

Furthermore, potatoes became a thing in Germany as the peasantry didn't have anything else to ear, the lands being ravaged by the Thirty Years War.
In order to have such equivalent in France, it would make the kingdom screwed enough to not having a french wank afterwards.
 
I think that for the delay to occur you might need to extend the reconquista, not just for Castille-Leon but for Portugal as well. A resurgent Granada or another state which could maintain some regional dominance, such as a potential Cordoba, Badajoz, or Seville would force the Catholic Iberian monarchs to focus on war with these states rather than far off trade routes. It might need an older POD but still managable. Bear in mind, it wasn't until Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Granadan Emirs that they accepted to fund Columbus, and that was in response to de Gama and his route to India. Keep both of them distracted and it delays discovery to the end of the reconquista and its after effects.
 
I think that for the delay to occur you might need to extend the reconquista, not just for Castille-Leon but for Portugal as well. A resurgent Granada
That's highly unlikly : since its creation, Granada was either under castillan domination or morrocean. Each time they tried to refuse Christians their tribute, the latter raided it and took another piece of land while Morrocean agreed to help in exchange of vassalisation (and not reallt helped them)..
The only thing that gave Nasrids enough time to survive up to 1492 were the infighting in Castille.

For the survival of another taifa, it's as well doubtful. The only thing that could have prevented the takeover of these regions by Castille would have been a Merinid takeover (more than the unfortunate campaigns they did OTL) before Christians can swallow it up (at best, Granada and Sevilla). Eventually, I don't see them doing much better than other berber dynasties (it could admittedly limit or butterfly the christian conquests in Morocco at the end of XV century).
They simply didn't have the same ressources (military, critically) or enjoying enough stability that being placed on trade roads would have been a critical advantage.

Bear in mind, it wasn't until Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Granadan Emirs that they accepted to fund Columbus, and that was in response to de Gama and his route to India. Keep both of them distracted and it delays discovery to the end of the reconquista and its after effects.
This is chronologically wrong.

Colombus first expedition began in 1492.
Vasco first expedition began in 1497

Finally, the continental reconquista of Portugal (you can argue that Reconquista wasn't convieved as to be limited to iberic peninsula) was achieved in the XIII century, almost 200 years before Castillan one. It gave portuguese plenty of time to develop interest into atlantic navigation and partially explain their advance on it.
 
This is a thin reed but it is the best I can do this early in the morning:

1. Colombus sails farther north and discovers Bermuda but his crew does not permit him to go further (maybe they even kill him). There is another ATL on this being discussed.

2. Voyages going around Africa manage to discover Ascension and St. Helena.

3. The sea route around Africa gets established.

4. There is a general consensus that the sea route west is not worth the trouble because all that is out there between Europe and Asia are more small islands like the ones that have been discovered.

5. People lose interest in the potential of a sea route to the west.

6. Discovery of a large land mass to the west happens decades later when the English decide to start establishing colonies in North America to facilitate their long distance fishing expeditions that had been fishing the Grand Banks since the late 1400s and keeping it secret.

Like I said, it's thin but somebody else pointed out that the technology that allows you go around the Cape to India also allows you to "discover" the Americas. So any POD has to be based on a decision to not go west as opposed to the lack of technology since the basic technology had existed for centuries.
 
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This is chronologically wrong.

Colombus first expedition began in 1492.
Vasco first expedition began in 1497

Finally, the continental reconquista of Portugal (you can argue that Reconquista wasn't convieved as to be limited to iberic peninsula) was achieved in the XIII century, almost 200 years before Castillan one. It gave portuguese plenty of time to develop interest into atlantic navigation and partially explain their advance on it.

Forgive me, I mixed de Gama's dates. However the Portugese had discovered the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, and many other locations along the African coast well in advance. Since the Portuguese conquered the Algarve from the Muslims, they left Castille to deal with the other moors in the peninsula, allowing them to pursue better routes to India with little harassment. Had there been a taifa (or multiple) strong enough to continue being a threat to both nations (perhaps factor in some infighting such as dynastic succession in Catholic Iberia) and you can delay the reconquista a few decades. France is too focused on the continent, England is more concerned in peace after civil war, and most other nations on the baltic are under the control of the Hansa in the late 15th century and so would not be funding the types of expeditions the Iberians could, thus delaying the discovery of the americas and leaving Venice, Egypt, and the Ottomans in control of the spice trade for now (perhaps a couple decades of expensive spices would incline other Europeans to find ways around, thus discovering the americas by accident).
 

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If there's anything resembling a major focus on circumnavigation of Africa, something like Cabral's discovery is nigh-inevitable. The currents just work out that way.
I think that, somewhat paradoxically, we need more European contact with Asia - that is, a working major trade route without the Ottomans being in the way. I'm not sure if that's plausible, but maybe the Russians throw out the Golden Horde (and conquer places like Kazan) a few decades earlier and decide to get in their old Baltic-*Persian trade business, coincidentally going right around Ottoman territories and straight to Central Asia?

That was my assumption in the aforementioned thread in which the Columbian expedition failed to return to Europe, and why I kept the Cabralian discovery, because it was only a matter of time before someone used that route to go around Africa and ended up running into South America anyway. In 1504, a French explorer named Binot Paulmier discovered Santa Catarina island by accident following a storm using the route, without knowing that a continent was even out there. This shows that the accidental discovery of the Americas in the 1510s was very probable if nothing else changed.
 
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