TPS dormancy ?

[khumlee]

Hi Tom, Hi all
I read all your post since many time now and it's my first year with TPS sowing after many years to think about it, my TPS come from seed of unknow varieties found on a field.
And the result is funny, 8 plants with many different kind of behavior, and color, shape of leefs, number of tubers.
See picture below.

This year Kokopelli France send to me an old French potato variety, "Rouge d'Auvergne " and I have pick up only one berry of this potato, with few seeds.
I think to sow few seeds in a green house now to have small tuber for december !
And sow these micro tuber at spring.
But I don't know if there is a dormancy on potato seeds ?
Can you help me, thanks a lot.

Sorry for my poor english

[samyaza]

Hello khumlee.

I remember Tom said you can't sow TPS just after you dried them, as you can do with tomatoes, so you may fail to grow your micro-tubers this fall. Somehow, I sowed my first self-grown TPS from 2011 ( variety is Charlotte ), this spring, and the germination rate was nearly 100%.

Also, the first season for TPS is difficult : plants don't survive transplanting, don't have time to grow enough before killed by something or reach senescence etc... field conditions is hard for such fragile little things, so, unless they're late, you'll harvest few, but if you grow these tubers again the next year, you can have great surprises. To my opinion, they'll suffer from a lack of light but I wish you good luck nevertheless.


Salut khumlee.

Je me souviens que Tom avait dit que tu ne pouvais pas semer des TPS tout de suite après le séchage, comme tu peux le faire avec les tomates, alors il se pourrait bien que tu ne réussisses pas à faire pousser tes mini-tubercules cet automne. Cependant, j'ai semé mes premières TPS de ma récolte 2011 ( de la variété Charlotte ), ce printemps, et le taux de germination était de l'ordre du 100%.

Aussi, la première saison de TPS est difficile : elles ne survivent pas après le repiquage, elles n'ont pas le temps de pousser suffisamment avant que quelque chose vienne les tuer ou qu'elles soient mûres etc... les conditions de plein champ sont difficiles pour des petites choses aussi fragiles, alors, à moins qu'elles ne soient tardives, tu ne récolteras pas grand chose, mais si tu replantes ces tubercules l'année suivante, tu peux avoir de grosses surprises. À mon avis, elles vont manquer de lumière mais je te souhaite bonne chance quand même.

[khumlee]

Very Thanks Samyaza,
There is only 23 seeds of "Rouge d'Auvergne" potato, so I thnik I wait untill the spring to sow this TPS;
Congratulations for your Solanum ajanhuiri tubers harvest and mainly too for the seeds. Good luck for the seedling of ajanhuiri.


khumlee