Post by GunnarSK on Dec 12, 2010 5:19:10 GMT -5
This was my first year growing potatoes from seed (TPS = True Potato Seed). Most successful were Russian Blue F2 from Durgan (harvested and extracted last summer), but unfortunately I don't have any late maturing violet/purple for seed potatoes next year (they were probably discarded as diseased by my wife and thrown into the trash), but some of the plants which disappeared earlier had produced white/light yellow tubers, which I will be able to plant.
Apart from these I have and will sow:
TPS from Tom Wagner's crosses, which Bluelytes helped me get,
TPS from wmontanez/Wendy, from selfed purple potatoes
I also sowed "Mystery" TPS from Medbury Gardens in New Zealand and some of TW's TPS this summer, but they may have been killed by the hard freeze in late November and early December.
I also hope to harvest berries and TPS from tubers grown from Danish seed potatoes: Aspargeskartofler F1 (light yellow store bought organics for consumption) and Aspargeskartofler F2 (pink fleshed and red skinned from my mother's garden).
Potatoes (solanum tuberosum) are tetraploid (4n = 48 chromosomes) and contain a lot of genetic information which is not expressed, therefore they may segregate for skin and flesh colour, time of maturity, shape and size.
Apart from these I have and will sow:
TPS from Tom Wagner's crosses, which Bluelytes helped me get,
TPS from wmontanez/Wendy, from selfed purple potatoes
I also sowed "Mystery" TPS from Medbury Gardens in New Zealand and some of TW's TPS this summer, but they may have been killed by the hard freeze in late November and early December.
I also hope to harvest berries and TPS from tubers grown from Danish seed potatoes: Aspargeskartofler F1 (light yellow store bought organics for consumption) and Aspargeskartofler F2 (pink fleshed and red skinned from my mother's garden).
Potatoes (solanum tuberosum) are tetraploid (4n = 48 chromosomes) and contain a lot of genetic information which is not expressed, therefore they may segregate for skin and flesh colour, time of maturity, shape and size.
