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Post by frdlturner on Feb 20, 2015 8:41:20 GMT -8
Tom I have many potato seed that I bought from your site.
I am wondering if you have found or know if you can do sweet potatoes from seed also
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Post by DarJones on Feb 20, 2015 11:05:09 GMT -8
Not Tom, but yes, you can grow sweet potatoes from seed, however, they have a very long fruiting season of 12 to 18 months. This limits seed production to greenhouses for non-tropical locations. There are two significant breeding programs for sweet potatoes, one in North Carolina, and one in Louisiana. There is also a major program run by CGIAR in South America. www.cgiar.org/ |
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Post by frdlturner on Feb 20, 2015 11:38:21 GMT -8
thanks for the info was hoping to get seed if it was available
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Post by Tom Wagner on Feb 20, 2015 11:56:54 GMT -8
I have a fair amount of sweet potato seed (true seed) but never done anything with them. What I have are from Puerto Rico.
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Post by paquebot on Feb 20, 2015 22:28:32 GMT -8
Past 3 years, I've had blossoms on Beauregard, Centennial, Covington, Georgia Jet, and O'Henry. I've used Q-Tips to pollinate within same varieties as well as crossing. To date, I've yet to see a single seed. Didn't really expect any but it would have been interesting to see what the offspring would be.
Martin
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Post by Tom Wagner on Feb 21, 2015 0:42:01 GMT -8
Years ago I read that sometimes half the seed won't germinate..and maybe only one percent of the seed sown will give you decent sweet potatoes and then many rot in storage, fail to sprout or have are disease susceptible. They make polycrosses with notes only on the female lines with mass pollination in the greenhouses which favor seed set late in the season when the days are shorter. I would have to live in a warmer climate to do justice with sweet potatoes. Beings I will never be able to grow all the tomato or potato crosses I have made let alone OP seed, I think I have to accept my specialization.
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Post by frdlturner on Feb 21, 2015 10:03:23 GMT -8
can these be grown in a greenhouse to be set out to grow outside save seed and start again in the greenhouse?
also Tom how can I get some of seed?
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