Post by Tom Wagner on Oct 25, 2010 14:51:13 GMT -8
Just named a potato as LUMPER'S GOLD.
A wonderful new potato variety to refute the ill repute that is commonly given the Lumper potato variety. It has a physical resemblance to Lumper, or Lumpers as I like to call it. However it has a deep yellow flesh and a great flavor.
It is a single hill from a seedling cross that I recently dug. It has Lumper as the female parent and a male parent that is 1/4 Lumper. The male parent is my fabulous John Tom Kaighin variety that is a cross of (Lumper x Tollocan) called Lump O'Gold crossed to Tom Kaighin.
So many website mention the so-called poor flavor of the Lumper, but I really don't think they even taste the Lumper in a dish. But, nevertheless, this new variety....Lumper's Gold resurrects the original Lumper from oblivion. Beings it is 5/8 Lumper, I want people to try it as soon as I build up the single seedling hill to many pounds next year. I do have some TPS from it to sample some recombinations from it.
I hope to take pollen next year from Lumper's Gold and cross to Lumper once again to get 13/16 Lumper true potato seed...TPS...for those who are reading this topic for the first time.
I wanted to keep the cytoplasm of the Lumper alive and well dispersed in the potato varieties available to the world. The X-type cytoplasm is very rare and represents the old Solanum andigena like background that predates the T-Type cytoplasm that represents 85% of most modern potatoes.
I tried to make Lumper popular by growing organically grown nuclear generation seed potatoes that passed certification inspection but it was too expensive to justify continuing. I am still growing my own seed stock from that era. My source was from Ireland via Canada on down to a meristem company in Colorado. The mini tubers grown from tissue culture are expensive.
A year ago I scattered TPS of Lumper crosses over the mass graves of the Irish Famine victims near Skibbereen, County Cork. Here is a link...
farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4706766704_23319059ae.jpg
to where I scattered the TPS and the photo shows exactly the location. The invocation was to bring back the Lumper with new blight resistance to restore its rightful place in Ireland. That the Lumper was their mainstay potato and failed them...is going to be brought back to symbolize new life. A new Lumper...a new history to fulfill. Full sib seed of Lumper's Gold was among the seed scattered, by the way.
The Lumper was born more than two hundred years ago...it is about time to be reborn!
Tom Wagner
BTW, my son, Kaighin Thomas Wagner was there in Ireland to witness this dedication to the Lumper. Kaig's g.g.g grandfather Tom Kaighin likely ate the Lumper on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea from the years 1806 to 1845.
My son has Wilbanks ancestry from County Cork on his mother's side. How they survived the famine before coming to America...I have not a clue.
If I treat the Lumper like family...just call me a hopeless romantic.
In case you don't know what a Lumper looks like....
www.greenchicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/lumpers-300x225.jpg
and when I get a new camera I will take a picture of the.
A wonderful new potato variety to refute the ill repute that is commonly given the Lumper potato variety. It has a physical resemblance to Lumper, or Lumpers as I like to call it. However it has a deep yellow flesh and a great flavor.
It is a single hill from a seedling cross that I recently dug. It has Lumper as the female parent and a male parent that is 1/4 Lumper. The male parent is my fabulous John Tom Kaighin variety that is a cross of (Lumper x Tollocan) called Lump O'Gold crossed to Tom Kaighin.
So many website mention the so-called poor flavor of the Lumper, but I really don't think they even taste the Lumper in a dish. But, nevertheless, this new variety....Lumper's Gold resurrects the original Lumper from oblivion. Beings it is 5/8 Lumper, I want people to try it as soon as I build up the single seedling hill to many pounds next year. I do have some TPS from it to sample some recombinations from it.
I hope to take pollen next year from Lumper's Gold and cross to Lumper once again to get 13/16 Lumper true potato seed...TPS...for those who are reading this topic for the first time.
I wanted to keep the cytoplasm of the Lumper alive and well dispersed in the potato varieties available to the world. The X-type cytoplasm is very rare and represents the old Solanum andigena like background that predates the T-Type cytoplasm that represents 85% of most modern potatoes.
I tried to make Lumper popular by growing organically grown nuclear generation seed potatoes that passed certification inspection but it was too expensive to justify continuing. I am still growing my own seed stock from that era. My source was from Ireland via Canada on down to a meristem company in Colorado. The mini tubers grown from tissue culture are expensive.
A year ago I scattered TPS of Lumper crosses over the mass graves of the Irish Famine victims near Skibbereen, County Cork. Here is a link...
farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4706766704_23319059ae.jpg
to where I scattered the TPS and the photo shows exactly the location. The invocation was to bring back the Lumper with new blight resistance to restore its rightful place in Ireland. That the Lumper was their mainstay potato and failed them...is going to be brought back to symbolize new life. A new Lumper...a new history to fulfill. Full sib seed of Lumper's Gold was among the seed scattered, by the way.
The Lumper was born more than two hundred years ago...it is about time to be reborn!
Tom Wagner
BTW, my son, Kaighin Thomas Wagner was there in Ireland to witness this dedication to the Lumper. Kaig's g.g.g grandfather Tom Kaighin likely ate the Lumper on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea from the years 1806 to 1845.
My son has Wilbanks ancestry from County Cork on his mother's side. How they survived the famine before coming to America...I have not a clue.
If I treat the Lumper like family...just call me a hopeless romantic.
In case you don't know what a Lumper looks like....
www.greenchicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/lumpers-300x225.jpg
and when I get a new camera I will take a picture of the
Lumper's Gold